Solution Architect

JOB TITLE: Solution Architect

SALARY: £70,929 - £74,870

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

Join our team in Edinburgh to strengthen our solutions architect community with cloud-based expertise!

You’ll have a strong background in architecting and designing services running in public cloud, particularly Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and extensive experience with JavaScript frameworks, native application development, user identity and authentication management, and data management in the public cloud.

Our mission is to help customers feel confident and in control of their finances, now and into the future. We’re building a new future for financial wellbeing, helping customers understand the big picture and making it easy for them to protect what matters! Our services are accessible for everyone, no matter what their income is or how comfortable they are with financial jargon, and we work hard to make sure we’re there for customers in the moments that matter. We’re bold and we love to experiment. We’re not afraid to try out new ways of working and we encourage teams to be flexible and adaptive.

Day to day, you’ll be:

• Work collaboratively as part of a community of experienced solutions architects taking personal ownership and leadership on a portfolio of solutions.

• Liaise with Engineering teams and other collaborators such as Product Owners, Security and Enterprise Architecture, to ensure that designs are appropriate to the business need and aligned to group strategy.

• Create scalable and secure solutions with an emphasis on web and app solutions deployed to the public cloud.

• Develop data management solutions that elevate the customer experience of using our services.

• Undertake and manage required governance, service introduction and audit compliance tasks.

About us

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you’ll need

• Proven experience as a Solutions Architect or similar role, with a background in development.

• Crafting and communicating technical documentation.

• Expertise in GCP application services such as GKE and Apigee.

• Understanding of JavaScript development (node.js, react.js, Typescript).

• Experience of native application development for iOS and Android.

• Knowledge of user identity and authentication management.

• Aware of data management in the public cloud, particularly GCP applications such as BigQuery, Dataflow, Cloud Spanner and CloudSQL.

Skills:

• Comfortable taking ownership and working independently or as part of a team as required.

• Confident in designing, authoring and communicating solutions, referencing and aligning to existing architectural patterns.

• Used to solving complex problems and leading discussions which result in workable and pragmatic solutions, accounting for varying views and opinions.

• Familiar with a range of software design standards, languages and architectures, including public cloud architecture.

• Proficiency in design principles and patterns such as microservice and event-driven architectures.

• An advocate for change and keen to evolve your solutions in line with group strategy.

• Familiar with DevOps practices and tools (Spinnaker, Unleash, Harness, Dynatrace)

And any experience of these would be useful:

• Certifications in GCP or related technologies.

• Experience with other cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure.

• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Familiarity with microservices architecture patterns and principles.

• Previous use of service mesh technologies, especially Istio.

• Understanding of security practices in cloud environments.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes: 

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today.