Senior Solution Architect & Technology Consultant (Financial Services or Insurance)

Overview

In this role you lead solution architecture initiatives for major clients, focusing on Financial Services and Insurance, to translate business needs into scalable technology. You’ll design hands-on digital solutions, govern architecture, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams across geographies. The position offers visibility with senior stakeholders and opportunities to shape transformation programs in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

Pay / Benefits

• ESPP
• private medical insurance
• pension plan
• life and income protection
• employee assistance program
• season ticket loans

Responsibilities

• Lead solution architecture from strategy to go-live across multiple sectors
• Design, prototype and integrate modern digital solutions into enterprise platforms
• Balance rapid innovation with long-term sustainability in collaboration with leadership
• Partner with architecture, delivery, product and development teams across geographies
• Provide technical governance including reviews, roadmaps, and audits
• Create architecture proposals, PoCs and support pre-sales including RFPs
• Improve software delivery quality and engineering effectiveness
• Mentor team members and represent the company at conferences and client workshops

Key requirements

• Hands-on Senior/Lead Solution Architect with software engineering and platform delivery expertise
• Experience designing scalable solutions with non-functional requirements (security, availability, resilience, low latency)
• Industry consulting experience in Financial Services or Insurance
• Cloud proficiency (AWS, Azure or GCP) and modern integration patterns (microservices, REST, event-driven)
• Pre-sales experience including RFPs and PoCs
• Ability to link technology choices to business value for large-scale transformations
• Pragmatic problem-solving and legacy modernization experience
• Leadership to guide distributed architecture and engineering teams
• Excellent client-facing consulting skills with senior stakeholders

• Client-facing communication
• Leadership and mentoring
• Stakeholder management
• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Microservices architecture
• REST APIs

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