Solutions Architect

Key Responsibilities

• Present Vault architecture and best practices to senior client stakeholders during pre-sales engagements and delivery.
• Interact with senior stakeholders across client organisations in both delivery and pre-sales, leveraging a broad consulting skillset.
• Work with banks to define target architectures and transition states for Vault implementations and migrations, ensuring the application of best practice.
• Create and utilize AI agents to accelerate the delivery of architectural deliverables, and enable clients to take advantage of the same assets.
• Maintain an advanced level of understanding of the Vault platform and its future direction, providing a thorough overview to clients.
• Act as a self-sufficient consultant, often engaging with clients individually without continuous team support.
• Deliver training to client teams on Vault functionality and architecture.
• Create and maintain client-facing collateral on architectural topics.
• Interface with the Thought Machine product function to feedback necessary product features that allow clients to realise value, influencing the product roadmap.

Requirements

• Essential: Domain knowledge in banking, ideally core banking or payments, with an understanding of the business drivers and regulatory context influencing large-scale transformation programmes.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong technical background, with good practical knowledge of established architectural patterns such as event-based architecture, CQRS, and process orchestration.
• Expert knowledge of cloud technologies and architectures, including emerging approaches for achieving high availability and disaster recovery (e.g., running systems across multi-availability zones and regions).
• Strong client-facing skills with the ability to communicate and defend a technical position to a mixed and potentially senior audience (enterprise architects, engineers, and business stakeholders).
• Good understanding of the business context, regulatory environment, and motivations for banking transformations, informing advice with banking domain knowledge and understanding of transformation execution.
• Desirable: Experience creating AI agents to accelerate delivery and improve efficiency.
• Experience of large-scale migration programmes, particularly core banking migrations.
• Spanish language skills.

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary
• Healthcare, vision and dental
• 25 days holiday
• Unlimited paid safe and sick time
• 401K matching (up to 7%)
• $750 per year flexible spend benefit
• Share options
• Commuter pass
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Life and long-term disability insurance
• All the latest tech you need
• A talented and experienced team as your colleagues
• An environment where we encourage learning and progress