Your newpany
Join a forward-thinking financial institution at the forefront of modern data and streaming architecture. You’ll be part of a high visibility technology group that is shaping the bank’s strategic streaming and Operational Data Store (ODS) capabilities. This is an organisation that values technical excellence, architectural integrity, and hands-on innovation, giving you the platform to influence major programmes and deliver real impact.
Your new role
As a Hands‑On Solution Architect, you’ll take ownership of designing, building, and validating end‑to‑end solutions across Kafka / Confluent Kafka, MongoDB, AWS, APIs, and ODS environments. You willbine high level conceptual thinking with detailed design and practical implementation guidance. Driving PoC's, prototypes, solution demos, and technical spikes to ensure architecture decisions aren’t just conceptual, but proven in practice. You will also play a central role in architectureernance: contributing to distribution reviews, ensuring standardspliance, preparing approval board submissions, and championing adherence to architectural patterns and guardrails across the streaming & ODS pillar.
What you'll need to succeed
1. Deep, hands‑on expertise in Kafka / Confluent Kafka, MongoDB, AWS, APIs, and Operational Data Stores
2. The ability to bring immediate value with a minimal learning curve and backed by demonstrable experience delivering in streaming and ODS environments.
3. Proven capability to design, build, validate, and iterate on solutions end‑to‑end.
4. Strongmunication skills with the confidence to engage senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams in a high visibility setting.
5. A proactive, autonomous working style, able to clearly articulate design rationale and drive alignment across technical and business teams.
What you'll get in return
You’ll step into a high impact role where your architectural leadership shapes the organisation’s data and streaming landscape. Expect a mix of autonomy, visibility, and meaningful technical challenge. You’ll influence strategic direction while remaining hands‑on with modern technologies — and be supported by an organisationmitted to strong engineering standards and architectural excellence.