Senior Solution Architect - 12 Months Contract - Hybrid in Bristol- Inside IR35

Sr Solution Architect - 12 Months Contract - Hybrid in Bristol- Inside IR35

We are seeking a Senior Solution Architect to design, govern and deliver secure, scalable enterprise solutions in a complex, regulated banking and financial services environment. You will act as the architectural authority across business, data, application and integration domains, driving cloud adoption, modernising Legacy platforms and keeping solutions aligned to business outcomes, on high-visibility, multi-year digital transformation. The contract is 6 months, hybrid in Bristol (preferred), with 2 days per week on-site and occasional travel between London and Bristol for key meetings and workshops.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and own end-to-end architecture across applications, data, cloud and integration layers
• Produce architecture artefacts: MVDs, HLDs, integration maps, data flow models and sequence diagrams
• Lead architecture reviews, design assurance and governance against enterprise standards
• Design secure, resilient architectures using microservices, APIs, event-driven and cloud-native patterns
• Architect solutions on Azure/GCP, including containers, serverless, networking, IAM and cloud security
• Drive modernisation: cloud migration, ERP/EPM transformation and multi-/hybrid-cloud strategy
• Build security by design, data governance and compliance into every solution, working with risk, audit and security teams
• Provide technical leadership to engineering teams, mentor junior architects and champion reusable patterns
• Communicate complex concepts to senior leadership and non-technical audiences

What You Will Ideally Bring:

• 10+ years in solution or technical architecture
• Strong distributed systems, microservices, API-led and integration-heavy architecture experience
• Deep cloud knowledge (AWS/Azure/GCP): networking, IAM, compute, storage and containers
• DevOps, CI/CD, IaC, observability and SRE practices
• Data architecture: warehousing, streaming, governance, lineage and analytics
• Experience in banking, financial services, insurance or similar regulated sectors
• Familiarity with ERP/finance platforms, GL, payments, risk, regulatory reporting and EPM
• Indicative stack: GCP, Oracle EPM Cloud, REST APIs, Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), SQL/NoSQL, BigQuery, Dataflow, Oracle DB

Contract Details:

• Rate: £600 per day
• Location: Hybrid in Bristol
• Contract Length: 12 Month Contract