Senior Solution Architect

What you'll do:
As a Solutions Architect you will be helping to define our architectural strategy to meet our ambitious goals, evolving our platform by delivering creative and iterative end to end solutions that achieve it.
Primarily focused on our Identity and payment gateway services, you will provide architectural guidance on new features, collaboratively shaping the solution at inception and elaboration stages with Analysts and engineering teams, to support delivery planning and providing guidance throughout the delivery lifecycle adapting the architecture as needed.
Working with delivery teams in developing solutions that are cloud first, secure, highly responsive, scalable, highly available, and resilient in the face of failure of dependent components and systems, keeping the customer experience at heart.
• A varied solutions role including system and solution architecture and design.
• Assessing the suitability of internal and external systems and defining how best to integrate with them, ensuring they meet our standards.
• Providing architectural and solution design guidance to the engineering teams.
• Pro-actively assisting in proofs of concept for new technologies and architectures.
• Work across a variety of domains, platforms and subject matters, you will work closely with squads during implementation and embrace change as needed and making sure non-functional requirements are met.
• Fluent in English

What you'll bring:
• Great people skills and strategic vision, being able to communicate to a variety of stakeholders through different methods in a relevant level of detail and tailoring the information to the audience - both the tech and non-tech community (marketing, business, legal, etc..).
• Strong working knowledge of architectural patterns and cloud technologies with the ability to get hands on, interrogating application performance, assessing new technology and evaluating proof of concepts.
• Experience of working on web, mobile or data / event driven platforms at large scale, across multiple departments and business areas.
• The ability to work with both high-level and low detail requirements to support scoping, estimations and more detailed requirements to refine design, approach andnimplementation.
• An action-oriented approach, able to self-manage your own work backlog and switch between different priorities.
• Experience of dismantling and migrating off monolith or legacy systems to smaller service- based architecture.
• Experience with Atlassian Suite and Github (or similar tools) to monitor activities and share documentation
• Agile mindset