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Solutions Architect
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Senior Architect Private Cloud (Banking & Finance)
Location: Sheffield, UK (Hybrid, 2 days in a week)
Contract Duration: 6 Months
Responsibilities:
- Define and drive Private Cloud architecture aligned with Client Cloud Strategy
- Provide hands-on technical leadership across virtualization, containers, Kubernetes, Kafka, and microservices platforms
- Review architecture designs and ensure solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective
- Establish engineering standards, reference architectures, reusable patterns, and platform guardrails
- Lead the design and evolution of private cloud platform components including compute, storage, networking, orchestration, and platform services
- Drive platform consistency across development, testing, and production environments
- Translate business and technology requirements into actionable platform engineering roadmaps
- Own Kubernetes architecture decisions including cluster design, multitenancy, ingress, service mesh, secrets management, observability, upgrade strategies, and workload onboarding
- Establish GitOps, CICD automation, and configuration management standards
- Provide technical leadership for Kafka and Event-Driven Architecture adoption
- Define Kafka governance, partitioning strategies, resiliency patterns, schema management, monitoring, and capacity planning
- Guide engineering teams on microservices architecture, domain design, resiliency, API contracts, and operational readiness
- Improve developer experience through self-service capabilities, templates, golden paths, and platform tooling
- Embed Security by Design, identity management, vulnerability management, auditability, and operational excellence practices
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Architects, Engineering Teams, Cyber Security, and SRE teams
- Influence technical strategy and engineering decisions across CTO platform domains
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- To be successful in this role, you should have:
- Proven experience as a Senior Architect, Lead Engineer, Staff Engineer, Platform Architect, or equivalent
- Strong Private Cloud and Platform Engineering background
- Deep expertise in at least two of the following:
- VMware or Virtualization Technologies
- Kubernetes and Container Platforms
- Kafka Event Streaming Platforms
- Strong Kubernetes experience including cluster operations, networking, upgrades, multitenancy, policy management, observability, and workload onboarding
- Strong Kafka architecture, operations, governance, security, and capacity planning experience
- Deep understanding of Distributed Systems, Networking, Fault Tolerance, Performance Tuning, and Capacity Planning
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CICD practices
- Strong understanding of Security Controls, Change Management, Risk Management, and Production Readiness
- Experience working in regulated enterprise environments
- Strong stakeholder management and technical leadership skills
- Excellent communication and architecture documentation capabilities
- Experience with Service Mesh technologies is desirable
- Knowledge of API Gateways, Secrets Management, and Policy as Code is preferred
- Experience with Observability platforms including Metrics, Logs, and Traces
- Experience building Platform as a Product capabilities such as developer portals and self-service platforms
- Knowledge of Multi-Region, Active, and Resilience Testing architectures is advantageous
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Skills
Kubernetes
Kafka
VMware
Virtualization
Microservices
GitOps
CICD
Infrastructure as Code
Service Mesh
Event Driven Architecture
Distributed Systems
Cloud Architecture
Platform Engineering
Observability
Security by Design
Stakeholder Management