Solutions Architect - .Net/C#

Company Overview

This organisation is a well-established technology provider delivering advanced software solutions to the financial services sector. Their platforms support critical functions such as planning, forecasting, analytics, and regulatory processes, enabling institutions to operate more effectively and make data-driven decisions. They have built a strong reputation over a number of years, with a very solid engineering team and consistently low attrition. Employees benefit from an excellent salary package, great benefits, and a genuinely supportive environment with strong collaboration and clear opportunities for career progression.

The Opportunity

The business is seeking a senior-level Architect to take ownership of the technical direction and design of a complex, enterprise-scale product suite. You will play a key role in evolving legacy systems into modern, cloud-native solutions, while introducing forward-thinking approaches including AI-driven capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and implement architecture across multiple interconnected systems, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability
• Contribute directly to codebases, prototypes, and design validation through hands-on development
• Establish best practices around APIs, system integration, and service boundaries
• Collaborate with engineering, data, and product teams to align technical solutions with business goals
• Guide and mentor senior engineers, promoting strong architectural thinking and autonomy
• Drive the adoption of modern engineering approaches including cloud-native design and infrastructure automation
• Identify and implement opportunities to enhance systems through AI and intelligent automation
• Support continuous improvement of development standards, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment strategies

Required Experience & Skills

• Extensive background in software engineering, including several years operating in architecture-focused roles
• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering distributed systems in production environments
• Strong expertise in modern backend development (particularly within the .NET ecosystem) and familiarity with frontend technologies such as TypeScript frameworks
• Proven ability to modernise legacy platforms incrementally without disrupting live services
• Experience working within cloud environments (Azure preferred, though other platforms are transferable)
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture, event-driven systems, and messaging patterns
• Advanced knowledge of API design, versioning, and integration strategies
• Experience with database design for both transactional and analytical workloads
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and automated deployment pipelines
• Hands-on experience with containerisation and orchestration tools

Nice to Have

• Background in financial services or other regulated industries
• Exposure to AI tools and modern development assistants, with an understanding of how they can enhance engineering workflows
• Knowledge of advanced AI architecture concepts such as orchestration, multi-agent systems, or data retrieval frameworks
• Experience contributing to architectural standards across larger engineering teams
• Strong awareness of balancing long-term design with practical, incremental delivery