Salary: £30,000 - 60,000 per year Requirements: Proven experience as a Solution Architect in financial services or similarly regulated environments. Strong background designing and securing RESTful APIs and integration platforms. Deep understanding of API gateways, OAuth2, mTLS, monitoring, and rate limiting. Experience with cloud and hybrid architectures, including container platforms, serverless, and event-driven systems. Ability to embed regulatory and security requirements into architecture (e.g. PSD2, ISO 20022, GDPR). Capability to translate complex technical designs into clear business-focused outcomes. Strong stakeholder management and governance experience. Highly valued experience in banking domains such as payments, onboarding, transaction processing, or treasury. Familiarity with modern messaging and event platforms (Kafka, MQ, real-time streaming). Experience navigating and modernizing legacy estates alongside cloud-native platforms. Knowledge of architecture economics, including cost modeling, capacity planning, and optimization. Responsibilities: Design and evolve solution architectures that address complex business needs using modern engineering practices and automated delivery. Create solution blueprints that leverage cloud-native capabilities such as containerization, serverless, and elastic scaling. Define workload placement strategies across on-prem and cloud to optimize performance, resilience, cost, and security. Lead the design of secure, scalable RESTful APIs (OpenAPI/Swagger) and define standards for API gateways, authentication, traffic management, and observability. Design integration patterns connecting internal systems with external partners and third-party ecosystems. Embed security-by-design principles to ensure solutions meet resilience, availability, and regulatory expectations. Produce architecture artifacts for design, security, privacy, and records management governance. Assess solutions for cost, capacity, performance, and operational impact. Support operational teams with fault finding, performance analysis, and continuous improvement. Act as a senior technical authority, guiding architectural direction and standards. Influence senior stakeholders and align product, engineering, security, and compliance teams. Mentor architects and engineers, contributing to the growth of the architecture community. Technologies: API Architect Cloud Support Kafka OpenAPI Security Serverless Swagger More: We are seeking a Lead Solution Architect to design and deliver secure, scalable, and resilient technology solutions in a complex, regulated environment based in Glasgow, Scotland. This is a senior, influential role where you will shape end-to-end architecture and work closely with various stakeholders to solve high-impact problems. Offering a competitive salary and bonus package with the opportunity to influence strategy and standards, we value experienced architects who enjoy solving complex problems and have a real impact across security, resilience, and digital transformation. We support hybrid working arrangements, allowing flexibility while being part of a dynamic and collaborative team. last updated 6 week of 2026