Job Title: Cloud Solutions Architect Location: Northampton (2/3 days per week on site) Salary/Rate: Up to £475 per day Start Date: March 2026 Job Type: 10 month contract (inside IR35) Company Introduction: We are currently recruiting for an Cloud Solutions Architect with experience in either AWS or Azure to join our tier-1 banking client on an exciting long-term contract. Key Responsibilities: Design scalable, secure, and compliant data architectures (batch and streaming). Build and support data pipelines and integration solutions. Define data ingestion, processing, storage, and API integration patterns. Ensure solutions meet bank security and compliance standards. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and governance teams. Produce clear architecture documentation and diagrams. Required Technical Skills: AWS and/or Azure cloud experience (S3, AWS Glue, Lambda) Apache Kafka (streaming architecture). API design and integration. PySpark (batch and streaming). Experience with Databricks. Experience with ETL tools. Additional Requirements: Strong understanding of secure data management in banking environments. Hands-on technical capability (not purely theoretical architecture). Comfortable working in Agile teams. Experience with architecture documentation tools such as Confluence, Jira, Mermaid, and C4 diagrams. If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format. Disclaimer Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies. Square One is acting as both an employment agency and an employment business, and is an equal opportunities recruitment business. Square One embraces diversity and will treat everyone equally. Please see our website for our full diversity statement.