Solution Architect - Digital Applications in Poynton

We are AMS, a global total workforce solutions firm that enables organisations to thrive in an age of constant change by building, re-shaping, and optimising workforces. Our Contingent Workforce Solutions (CWS) is one of our service offerings; we act as an extension of our clients' recruitment team and provide professional interim and temporary resources.

We are currently working with our client, Royal London, and are looking for two experienced Solution Architects for a 6 month contract (with potential for extension), based in Alderley Park, outside of Manchester, on a hybrid working model of 50% from home, 50% onsite.

Royal London is the UK's largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, owned by our members and working for their benefit. Today, Royal London has over £114 billion of funds under management, and around 3,500 employees working in six offices across the UK and Ireland.

Purpose of the Role: The Digital Applications Solution Architects will play a crucial role in helping to build business critical digital solutions, focused on delivering a new state-of-the-art long-term savings and pensions platform. This role is ideally suited to someone who has evolved from a software engineering background into architecture.

Responsibilities of the role:

• Own the end-to-end solution design for digital products and services across multiple agile squads.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, secure and maintainable technical solutions.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering and Principal Engineers to ensure architectural decisions align with business objectives and technology strategy.
• Produce solution designs, architectural artefacts and technical roadmaps that support the delivery of modern digital platforms.
• Provide architectural guidance throughout the software development lifecycle, ensuring solutions are practical, achievable and aligned to engineering best practice.
• Define and review API strategies, including GraphQL and REST service design.
• Support the adoption of domain-driven design, microservices, event-driven architectures and modern integration patterns.
• Ensure appropriate consideration is given to security, authentication, authorisation, observability, performance and operational support requirements.
• Work closely with development teams to review implementation approaches and provide technical leadership during delivery.
• Contribute to architectural governance, technical standards and continuous improvement initiatives across the technology organisation.
• Support architecture decisions across customer journeys and digital experiences, including onboarding and servicing capabilities.

What we require from the Solution Architects:

• A software engineering background with experience designing and delivering modern digital applications.
• Proven experience as a Solution Architect or Technical Architect.
• Experience designing secure, scalable and resilient cloud-based applications.
• Strong understanding of frontend and backend application architectures with experience in Java and Angular.
• Experience designing and consuming GraphQL and/or REST APIs.
• Knowledge of microservices, domain-driven design and distributed systems architecture.
• Experience with containerised cloud-hosted applications and modern cloud platforms.
• Understanding of event-driven architectures, asynchronous messaging and event-streaming technologies.
• Experience operating within Agile delivery environments and cross-functional product teams.

This client will only accept workers operating via an Umbrella/PAYE engagement model. If you are interested in applying for this position and meet the criteria outlined above, please click the link to apply and speak to one of our sourcing specialists now.