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We are a Global Recruitment specialist that provides support to the clients across EMEA, APAC, US and Canada. We have an excellent job opportunity for you.
Job Title: Solution Architect- Open Banking/Payment
Location: Northampton (2 days hybrid)
Duration: End of December 2025
Job Description:
Key Accountabilities
- Accountable for delivering effective solution designs within the Open Banking COE, taking the lead on the solution design from an API design and API Security perspective
- Design end-to-end API solutions to meet business needs within the context of a broader solution implementation
- Contributor to overall solution planning, providing input into the estimation process as well as highlighting technical risks, issues, and assumptions
- Define and derive best practices in the API space, adopting industry best practices and highlighting areas of improvements
- Produce required design artefacts, independently or as part of a team
- Engage with key stakeholders in workshops to get desired outcome
- Present to the Customer's Architecture Review Board when necessary
- Ensure solutions align with strategic architecture principles and direction
- Review the designs and code produced by the technical teams to ensure alignment with the overall solution design
- Support the delivery lead, to break down the solution so that it can be delivered iteratively in sprints
- Review requirements and monitor change requests to ensure that the solution design is fit for purpose
- Essential Skills & Experience
- Deep experience of UK's open banking standards coupled with solution implementation experience in the context of UK Open Banking.
- Highly experienced solution architect in designing solutions for large-scale API integration projects and programmes within Banking/Payments domain.
- Deep knowledge and experience in REST API design principles with experience in creation of Swagger/RAML definitions
- Experience of API security profile standards - OAuth, OIDC and FAPI would be mandatory
- Understanding of Domain Driven Design would be beneficial
- Expertise of the any industry standard API management platforms (eg- MuleSoft, Apigee, Kong, AWS API Gateway)
- Experience in modelling, building and deployment large-scale distributed micro-services using Java and spring boot
- Deep expertise of cross cutting concerns observability, logging, monitoring, Error Handling
- Knowledge of any industry standard solution Splunk, ELK would be beneficial
- Expertise of any public cloud (AWS preferred)
- Knowledge of Enterprise Integration Patterns with deep understanding of Kafka would also be beneficial
- Expertise in any industry DevOps solutions (eg - Jenkins, GitLab, AWS CodePipeline)
- Financial services experience would be advantageous
- Ability to take a lead role and take ownership of complex deliveries Financial services experience would be advantageous"
If you are interested in this position and would like to learn more, please send through your CV and we will get in touch with you as soon as possible. Please note, candidates are often Shortlisted within 48 hours.
