Senior Principal Solutions Architect

Salary: £31,000 - 49,000 per year

Requirements:

• 15+ years of experience in enterprise, solution architecture, hands-on software engineering, and distributed systems design.
• Deep functional and technical knowledge of banking domains, including retail/commercial banking, payments ecosystems, transaction processing, lending, or capital markets.
• Deep, hands-on architectural expertise in at least one major public cloud platform: AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Professional-level cloud architecture certifications are highly preferred.
• Proven understanding of AI-native paradigms, multi-agent frameworks, LLM orchestration, semantic vector search, and modern data streaming architectures.
• Expertise in microservices, modular monoliths, domain-driven design (DDD), event-driven architecture (EDA), and REST/GraphQL API ecosystems.
• Proven ability to engage, influence, and build trust with C-level stakeholders, client architecture boards, and cross-functional engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

• Lead large-scale architectural and digital transformations for Tier-1 and growth banking and financial services clients in the UK and Europe.
• Define target-state enterprise architectures and bridge legacy core banking platforms with modern cloud-native ecosystems.
• Architect robust, highly resilient, and scalable target-state solutions on a major hyperscaler for complex banking environments.
• Pioneer the integration of AI-native architecture patterns, including agentic workflows, autonomous systems, RAG pipelines, and model-driven orchestration, into core banking, payments, and risk operations.
• Translate complex business requirements across retail banking, corporate banking, payments, and open banking into modular, event-driven, and API-first architectures.
• Partner with client CTOs, enterprise architects, and our sales leaders to lead technical discovery, respond to complex RFPs, design proof-of-concepts, and deliver C-suite architectural blueprints.
• Ensure target architectural blueprints align with UK and EU financial regulatory standards, cyber resilience frameworks, and data sovereignty mandates.
• Guide multidisciplinary engineering squads, establish architecture guardrails, and conduct rigorous design reviews to ensure alignment with target-state blueprints.

Technologies:

• AI
• API
• AWS
• Architect
• Azure
• Cloud
• DDD
• GraphQL
• LLM
• RAG
• REST
• microservices
• GCP
• Swift

More:

We are Coforge, and we are seeking an accomplished and visionary Senior Solutions Architect for a permanent hybrid role based in London, UK, with three days per week on-site at our London (Fenchurch Street) office. This role sits within our Banking & AI-Native Solutions domain, supporting our Tier-1 and growth Banking & Financial Services clients across the UK and Europe. You will work on strategic transformation initiatives, modern cloud-native banking platforms, and AI-native engineering across critical banking workloads.

last updated 36 week of 2026