Coforge
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Role: Senior/Principal Solutions Architect
Location: London, UK – Hybrid (3 days/week on-site)
Type: Permanent
Domain: Banking & AI-Native Solutions
Important
- Experience: 15+ Years (Enterprise/Solution Architecture)
- Cloud: Mandatory: Deep expertise in at least ONE (AWS / Azure / GCP)
- Domain & Focus: Banking, Capital Markets & AI-Native Systems
Role Overview
Coforge is seeking an accomplished and visionary Senior Solutions Architect to lead large-scale architectural and digital transformations for our Tier-1 and growth Banking & Financial Services clients in the UK and Europe. In this strategic role based out of our London (Fenchurch Street) office, you will define target-state enterprise architectures, bridge legacy core banking platforms with modern cloud-native ecosystems, and spearhead the implementation of AI-native engineering and agentic systems across critical banking workloads.
Key Responsibilities
- Enterprise & Solution Architecture: Architect robust, highly resilient, and scalable target-state solutions on a major hyperscaler (AWS, Azure, or GCP mandatory) tailored to complex banking environments.
- AI-Native Engineering & Agentic Workflows: Pioneer the integration of AI-native architecture patterns—including agentic workflows, autonomous systems, RAG pipelines, and model-driven orchestration—into core banking, payments, and risk operations.
- Domain Modernization & Composable Banking: Translate complex business requirements across retail banking, corporate banking, payments (e.g., ISO 20022), and open banking into modular, event-driven, and API-first architectures.
- Pre-Sales, Bids & Advisory: Partner with client CTOs, Enterprise Architects, and Coforge sales leaders to lead technical discovery, respond to complex RFPs, design proof-of-concepts, and deliver compelling C-suite architectural blueprints.
- Regulatory & Financial Resilience: Ensure all target architectural blueprints align with stringent UK/EU financial regulatory standards, cyber resilience frameworks (DORA, PRA/FCA guidelines), and data sovereignty mandates.
- Technical Leadership & Governance: Guide multidisciplinary engineering squads, establish architecture guardrails, and conduct rigorous design reviews to ensure alignment with target-state blueprints.
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- 15+ Years of Experience: Substantial, progressive track record spanning hands-on software engineering, distributed systems design, and enterprise/solution architecture.
- Banking Domain Expertise: Deep functional and technical knowledge within retail/commercial banking, payments ecosystems (ISO 20022, Faster Payments, SWIFT), transaction processing, lending, or capital markets.
- Public Cloud Mastery (Mandatory Single Cloud): Deep, hands-on architectural expertise in at least ONE major public cloud platform—AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)—with professional-level cloud architecture certifications highly preferred.
- AI-Native & Next-Gen Systems: Proven conceptual and practical grasp of AI-native paradigms, multi-agent frameworks, LLM orchestrations, semantic vector search, and modern data streaming architectures.
- Modern Architectural Paradigms: Expertise in Microservices, Modular Monoliths, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), and REST/GraphQL API ecosystems.
- Executive Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to engage, influence, and build trust with C-level stakeholders, client architecture boards, and cross-functional engineering teams.
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