Solutions Architect - Retail Core Banking

Job details

: Posted 08 April 2026 : LocationMilton Keynes : Job type Contract : Discipline Technology

Job description

Essential Skills

Solution Architecture and Design Significant experience as a Solution Architect, ideally within complex financial services environments Domain knowledge in o Retail Banking products

e.g. - Unsecured loans Personal Accounts – banking & savings and Bonds (fixed term deposits) o Business Segmentation – Retail, business banking, private o

- Onboarding processes for Personal account o Core Banking products (customers, accounts, pricing, transactions, etc) and related services essential to the operations of a bank Domain driven design, with working knowledge of the BIAN framework, TOGAF, ArchiMate

- Proven experience in defining & documenting As-Is & Target Architecture, working with stakeholders to help define & deliver strategic objectives & roadmaps, being embedded into the functional domain, balancing business requirements with functional & technical

Strategy Experience

- Defining and evolving RESTful APIs following best practices for scalability, versioning and documentation

- Experience with event-driven architectures Ability to produce clear functional architecture, design logical components and define interactions between systems, whilst delivering decommissioning and archival initiatives

- Experience balancing business outcomes with long term architecture strategies

- Experience in working with engineering teams to align technical designs with the published architecture. Peer review designs produced by other team members, ensuring architectural integrity and compliance with standards.

- Experience in creating practical, workable architectures that can be aligned to IT principles/standards, whilst following the bank’s architecture governance processes.