Solutions Architect

The Solutions Architect will be working on a payment system product and will provide end-to-end technical leadership across design, architecture, and delivery of modern cloud-based systems. The role focuses on AWS cloud architecture, Java-based services, API-led design, microservices patterns, and schema-driven approaches to ensure high-quality, scalable, resilient digital services. Experience Solutions Reference Architectures and working closely with engineering teams, product owners, and delivery leads to define technical direction, set standards, and ensure solutions are secure, maintainable, and aligned to organisational goals.

Responsibilities

• Technical Architecture & Solution Design
• Design end-to-end architectures for cloud-native services built on AWS.
• Define and document high-level and detailed designs, architectural patterns, and technical specifications.
• Create robust, well-governed API architectures (RESTful, event-driven, synchronous/asynchronous).
• Lead the design of distributed microservices, ensuring scalability, resilience, observability, and maintainability.
• Apply schema-driven design principles to ensure consistent and reusable domain models.

Qualifications

• Strong experience as a Solutions Architect
• Proven track record designing cloud-based applications on AWS.
• Deep experience with APIs (REST, event-driven, messaging), microservices, and distributed system design.
• Strong understanding of schema-driven design, using tools such as JSON Schema, OpenAPI, or AsyncAPI.
• Solid understanding of cloud security, identity and access management, and operational best practices.
• Experience working with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence technical decisions.
• Solutions Reference Architectures, patterns
• Payment Systems experience