Job Title: Senior Solution Architect
Location: London / Hybrid
Type: Contract (Inside IR35)
Day Rate:
Are you a Senior Solution Architect with a strong enterprise mindset, financial services experience, and a passion for solving complex architectural challenges? We're looking for a highly capable architect to shape and deliver impactful digital solutions for a leading asset management and financial services provider.
This is a hands-on role where you’ll collaborate closely with stakeholders, delivery teams, and fellow architects to design scalable, regulatory-compliant solutions aligned to enterprise and FSI goals.
Key Responsibilities

• Translate complex business and regulatory requirements into end-to-end solution architectures across multiple systems and domains.
• Leverage architectural frameworks (e.g. TOGAF) to drive clarity and consensus in ambiguous or fast-changing environments.
• Design solutions across all architectural layers—application, data, infrastructure, integration, and security.
• Ensure non-functional requirements (e.g. performance, resilience, scalability) are embedded from day one.
• Align architecture with enterprise and FSI-specific roadmaps, with a clear view of long-term business and regulatory objectives.
• Bring thought leadership to legacy system rationalisation, identifying opportunities to simplify and decommission redundant platforms.
• Ensure all solutions meet internal architecture standards and are compliant with external regulations (e.g. GDPR, EU AI Act, FCA regulations, MiFID II, SMCR).
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders and C-suite decision-makers to influence and guide architectural outcomes.
• Coach and mentor junior architects and engineers on FSI-aligned architecture practices and principles.
• Stay ahead of the curve with emerging tech trends, including AI in finance, cloud-native development, blockchain, APIs, and event-driven architectures.

Skills & Experience Required

• Strong experience within financial services or asset management, ideally within FSI transformation programmes.
• Deep understanding of regulatory requirements across the UK and EU (e.g. GDPR, SMCR, MiFID II).
• Strong functional understanding of one or more enterprise domains (e.g. Finance, Risk, Compliance, Customer).
• Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-grade solutions in regulated environments.
• Expertise in architecture domains: application, data, infrastructure, integration, and security.
• Experience navigating technical constraints, managing risk, and resolving architectural debt.
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture methodologies (TOGAF, Zachman, etc.).
• Excellent stakeholder communication skills—both technical and non-technical.
• Experience with major cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP), microservices, and component-based architectures.
• Track record in supporting digital transformation or cloud modernisation programmes in the financial sector.

Desirable

• Certifications in TOGAF, Azure/AWS architecture, or solution architecture.
• Experience in innovation areas within finance such as AI, tokenisation, digital identity, or ESG reporting tools.
• Familiarity with enterprise governance and compliance processes in financial institutions.

How to Apply
If you're ready to use your skills to drive impactful digital solutions within financial services:

• Click the apply button – no pressure, we’ll speak before your CV goes anywhere.
• Call SoCode and ask for Emma (number is easy to find on Google).
• Connect with me on LinkedIn – just search for Emma Panday, I’m easy to find!