Solutions Architect

Job Location: London, UK - 2 Days Onsite

Job Type: Contract - Inside IR35

Reporting/working model:

Reporting into Lead Cloud Architect, sharing the architecture and governance-documentation load.

Core responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end solution architecture (compute, networking, security, resilience) for FICC applications, largely On-Prem, AWS-hosted, some Azure.
• Author governance documentation - SDD, ADD, ASA, HLD - and take designs through our internal ARB/governance process.
• Hands-on knowledge of IAC, CI/CD, Terraform, pipelines personally, not just review/approve others' work.
• Kubernetes/EKS migration design, including ownership of on-prem to cloud migrations end-to-end.
• IAM/IdM design and security reviews (Okta/SailPoint/Entra-type tooling).

Must-haves:

• Financial services / regulated environment experience - not generic experience.
• Can PROVE hands-on experience, owning end-to-end solution design not just "I designed it and a team built it".
• Has personally owned an EKS/Kubernetes migration end-to-end (not just coached/advised one).
• Has AUTHORED governance docs (SDD/ADD/ASA), not just reviewed/signed off on them.

Nice-to-have:

index/benchmark/market-data platform experience, data migration experience (DMS, Sybase/Mongo to Aurora-type work).