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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Solution Architect - **Company:** gb Teksystems - **Location:** Macclesfield, UK (Remote available) - **Salary:** £156,000.0 - **Contract:** Temporary contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Application Integration Architecture, Cloud Engineering, Distributed Systems, High-Level Architecture, Mobile Application Software, Data Streaming, Event Driven Architecture, Apache Kafka, Legacy Systems - **Published:** September 3, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/solution-architect/teksystems-job107932793 ## About the Role * Proven experience operating as a Solution Architect within large-scale enterprise environments. * Strong background in designing and implementing Event-Driven Architectures (EDA/EBA). * Hands-on experience enabling event-based integration across legacy applications and platforms. * Knowledge of messaging, event streaming and asynchronous integration patterns. * experience working with Apache Kafka or equivalent event streaming technologies. * Solid understanding of integration architecture, APIs and distributed systems. * Ability to engage effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, tailoring communication to diverse audiences. * Demonstrated capability to bridge traditional transactional systems with modern streaming and integration technologies. Additional Skills & Qualifications * experience within Financial Services, Wealth Management, Pensions or Investments environments. * experience modernising legacy platforms through event enablement strategies. * Knowledge of customer-facing mobile applications and notification services. * experience working across both internally developed solutions and vendor-owned platforms. * Familiarity with cloud-native and hybrid architecture environments. * Track record of helping organisations introduce event-driven capabilities into complex legacy estates. ## Description This contract role offers an opportunity for an experienced Solution Architect to lead the design and implementation of event-driven architecture for a strategic digital customer experience programme. You will define and deliver the architecture needed to provide real-time mobile app notifications for customers across savings and investment products, working across a mix of legacy and modern platforms in a hybrid work setting., * Lead the end-to-end solution architecture and high-level design for customer notification capabilities within a strategic digital customer experience programme. * Define event-driven architecture patterns to support real-time customer notifications for pensions, ISAs and other savings and investment products. * Assess existing legacy platforms and identify options to expose and consume change events in a secure and scalable way. * Design integration approaches that span internally developed systems and third-party or vendor platforms. * Collaborate closely with engineering, product, platform and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust, scalable technical solutions. * Leverage existing messaging and streaming capabilities to support the publication and consumption of events across the technology estate. * Produce clear architecture artefacts, including high-level designs, design documentation and technical roadmaps to guide delivery teams. * Support architectural governance processes and ensure proposed solutions align with wider enterprise architecture principles and standards. * Identify and communicate technical risks, dependencies and constraints associated with modernising legacy platforms through event enablement. * Contribute to the introduction and adoption of event-driven patterns across a complex, evolving technology landscape., This is a hybrid role based in either Alderley Park or Glasgow, combining on-site collaboration with remote working. You will work within a large-scale enterprise environment that operates a mix of legacy systems and modern platforms, including messaging and event streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka or equivalent tools. The setting is structured and governance-focused, with defined architecture standards and processes, while still encouraging modern, event-driven and cloud-aligned approaches. 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