About Waystone

Waystone is a leading asset-servicing solutions provider of institutional governance, administration, risk and compliance services to financial institutions. With over 25 years’ experience and a comprehensive range of specialist services to its name, Waystone helps our clients structure, operate and grow through our expertise, innovation and digitisation, backed by the operational scale to support global expansion

Summary:

The Solution Architect is responsible for designing and overseeing the implementation of technology solutions that address business requirements whilst aligning with the organisation’s enterprise architecture standards and strategic direction. This role bridges the gap between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams, ensuring solutions are fit for purpose, scalable, secure, and maintainable.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the design and documentation of solution architectures for projects and programmes, producing high-level designs (HLDs) and low-level designs (LLDs) as appropriate.
• Engage with business stakeholders to understand requirements, constraints, and drivers, translating these into robust technical solutions.
• Evaluate and recommend technology options, conducting feasibility assessments, proof of concepts, and vendor evaluations where necessary.
• Ensure solutions comply with enterprise architecture principles, security policies, data governance standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with delivery teams throughout the project lifecycle, providing architectural guidance and resolving technical challenges.
• Participate in architecture review boards and governance forums, presenting designs for approval and contributing to architectural standards.
• Produce and maintain architecture artefacts including context diagrams, component diagrams, integration patterns, and decision logs.
• Identify and manage technical risks, dependencies, and assumptions, escalating issues as appropriate.
• Support estimation activities by providing architectural input into effort and cost assessments.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends, advising on their potential application within the organisation.
• Mentor and support junior architects and technical staff, fostering knowledge sharing and capability development.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of architecture processes, frameworks, and tooling.
• Drive innovation by evaluating new technologies and recommending adoption where appropriate.
• Ensure solutions consider total cost of ownership including performance, logging, monitoring, and ongoing maintenance requirements.
• Ensure non-functional requirements are practical and achievable through engagement with Support and IT Operations teams.
• Identify and address weak points in governance, best practices, education, and skills development within the architecture function.
• Remain vigilant for security vulnerabilities and licensing issues, raising risks early and offering remediations.
• Foster a constructive culture of continuous improvement and innovation within the team.