Technical Solutions Architect

• Own and deliver High-Level Solution Designs (HLSDs) aligned to retail banking standards
• Translate business requirements into clear, pragmatic technical solutions
• Work closely with software engineers, delivery leads, and other architects to shape and challenge solutions in a constructive way
• Engage effectively with business and technology teams, influencing outcomes and technology choices
• Support go-to-market delivery where previous roles have struggled to pass internal architectural review
• Champion best-fit technology decisions aligned with high-street banking environments
• Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned to enterprise architecture principles

• Proven experience as a Solutions Architect or Senior Technical Architect within retail banking

• Strong engineering background, ideally originating from software engineering

• Demonstrable experience working on customer journey-led architectures and platform layering

• Solid integration experience, including:

• Kafka/event-driven architecture

• API-led integration

• Java-based services

Cloud experience, with a strong preference for AWS

Comfortable working in fast-moving environments created by organisational change

Able to challenge stakeholders constructively while keeping delivery moving

Lorien's leading banking client is looking for a Technical Solutions Architects to support a major retail banking organisation during a period of re-organisation. These roles have been created to address a capacity gap within architecture and engineering, ensuring delivery remains on track as the business progresses to market. The organisation is engineering-led, with strong software engineering teams, and requires architects who can operate in a blended role-hands-on when needed, strategic when required, and always collaborative. Multiple roles are available, aligned to different workstreams across the same programme, including customer journey and layered architecture initiatives, with a particular focus on retail banking platforms., Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.