Solution Architect

Solution Architect My client, a large consultancy, is in need of a Solution Architect for a 6 month contract inside IR35 based in London offering 3 days per week remote but requiring 2 days per week on-site. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in Banking and Payments domain expertise with proven experience defining and delivering architecture solutions for complex, large-scale strategic initiatives, Extensive experience designing solutions within regulated enterprise environments, including Real Time decisioning, personalisation, customer engagement, and high-volume transaction processing platforms, Deep knowledge of Domain-Driven Design (DDD), microservices architecture, and modern engineering practices, with the ability to apply these principles to complex business domains, Strong experience designing modern data and integration architectures, including event-driven architectures, Kafka, streaming and batch processing patterns, API design, identity resolution, and data-driven decisioning platforms. The ideal candidate will have proven expertise in designing distributed systems, including fault tolerance, scalability, consistency models, partitioning strategies, resiliency patterns, retries, idempotency, back-pressure management, and performance optimisation, experience designing highly available, resilient, and scalable solutions across multi-zone and multi-region cloud environments, Strong hands-on experience delivering cloud-native solutions on Google Cloud ..... full job details .....