Solution Architect

Role: Solutions Architect Location: Leeds (Hybrid) Salary: £75,000 Take ownership of Application Architecture Modernisation and Cloud Adoption for a leading Financial Services Organisation. We''re supporting a leading Financial Services organisation on a multi-year evolution of its core platforms and technology landscape. This role offers a rare opportunity to step in as the Architect, taking full ownership of architectural direction, governance, and process across the business. You''ll operate across both technical depth and enterprise-level thinking, helping the organisation move from a predominantly on-prem Microsoft estate towards a more modern, API-led and cloud-ready architecture, at a pace that aligns with business risk and regulatory requirements. What You''ll Be Doing This is a broad, high-impact role where you''ll combine hands-on technical decision-making with strategic architectural leadership. Own the Architecture Function Act as the organisation''s primary Architect, establishing architecture practices, governance, and processes, including involvement in and shaping of Technical Design Authority (TDA) Technical Leadership andamp; Decision-Making Work closely with Engineers and senior stakeholders to drive key decisions across areas such as APIs, authentication, integration patterns, and application design Application andamp; Platform Architecture Lead the evolution of a core Microsoft-based platform, currently on-prem, introducing scalable, modern ..... full job details .....