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# Solution Architect Sep 29

- **Company:** Infinity Quest
- **Location:** UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £54,016.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Adaptive Design, Agile Methodology, Systems Engineering, Cloud Computing, Java Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Software Architecture, Release Management, Software Engineering, Google Cloud, Cloud Platform System, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Archimate, Togaf, Api Gateway, Microservices
- **Published:** October 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5906273394

## About the Role

* Are experienced working in multi-disciplinary product, feature or platform teams.
 * Are excited at the prospect of changing culture by inspiring change through new insights with teams or like-minded people, encouraging each other to find the right technology solutions.
 * Have experiences in systems engineering or solution architecture with appreciation of software development processes such as Behaviour Driven Development & Test Driven Development.
 * Enjoy communicating & influencing audiences with little or no technical knowledge while aligning recommendations to organisational strategy & imperatives.
 * Worked with collaborators to influence their thinking about what is possible through technology innovation.
 * Have understanding & experiences in applying different project, architecture, life cycling and risk management methods to bring in customer value.
 * Demonstrate strong understanding of solution & software architecture patterns.
 * Have experience in defining and/or operating environments embracing Agile Architecture, Emergent & Intentional architecture techniques.
 * Experience of systems or solutions development, change lifecycle, release management at web-scale.
 * Experience in partnering & collaborating with Enterprise, Security, Data & Infrastructure architects to create customer value or tackle business problems.
 * Proficient & demonstrable experience in leading activities associated to Architectural Governance, Risk Management or Compliance processes.
 * Familiarity of Architectural Frameworks such as TOGAF, Archimate, Cloud Architectures or similar.
 * Have an ability to understand how and where third party products could be deployed, including solid understanding of vendor evaluation and selection processes & best practises.
 * Prior experience in Mobile native, Cross platform/Hybrid App, API Gateway Management and microservices domain.

Key Skills: Java/J2EE, Microservices, API Gateway, TOGAF, GCP Cloud, Agile, Commercial Banking / Lending.

 * Prior experience in Mobile native, Cross platform/Hybrid App, API Gateway Management and microservices domain.

## Description

* Collaborating with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects & Engineers to create the Architectural runway for our Platform teams. Once baselined, our Solution Architects continuously invest in maintaining the Architecture runway underpinning our Platform teams.
 * Partner with Enterprise Architecture & service providers to elaborate on solutions, their interfaces and validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives and software lifecycle risks, assumptions, issues & dependencies.
 * Providing analysis of options and deliver end-to-end solution designs using relevant architectural building blocks as well as producing designs for features that enable frequent incremental customer value delivery.
 * Promoting adaptive design practises to drive collaboration across Platform teams centring on a common vision with continuous feedback.
 * Owning the technical design risks or issues and driving resolution through architectural or agile practises.
 * Participating in Agile ceremonies, elicit requirements, shape & validate designs or prototypes that deliver customer outcomes that align to our target architecture.
 * Leveraging industry best practise, frameworks, standards & policies in creating opportunities & value for our customers.
 * Contributing to the financial investment process to obtain funding for key solution opportunities.
 * Setting guiding principles and solution success criteria for platform capability or feature development across our Platforms.
 * Providing oversight & foster built in quality, decoupled & modernised architectures.
 * Supporting Product Owners & Platform Leads in identifying, articulating and impact assessing software & infrastructure currency risks or issues, offering options & recommendations on action planning & continuously evergreening solutions/systems within the Platform.
 * Supporting Product Owners & Platform Leads on the technical aspect of activities linked with Platform financial estimation, spend or risk management processes in line with the platform roadmap.
 * As a Senior Solution Architect, you will also hold overall responsibility for leading and directing a diverse workforce to achieve the business strategy, Inspiring people, achieving their full commitment to do the extraordinary.