Our client is searching for the following Hybrid, Contract Senior Solution Architect.

The role is as follows:

Design and deliver scalable, secure, high-performance solution architectures and the migration of applications from on premises to AWS. You will own end-to-end designs, drive architecture governance, and translate quant and capital-markets requirements into developer-grade architecture artefacts.

Key responsibilities

• Design end-to-end solution architectures across AWS (ECS/Fargate, API Gateway, Lambda, Glue, S3), Snowflake, MWAA and dbt, and the integrations between them
• Lead the migration design for the seven in-scope applications from on-premises to the AWS target state
• Partner with business and BSA teams to translate requirements into architecture designs
• Author high-level and detailed design (HLD/LLD) and the Detailed Design Document; lead architecture reviews and uphold standards through the ARB
• Ensure security, scalability and reliability across all solutions
• Use AI tools to analyse legacy code and documents and to generate architecture artefacts (diagrams, specs, backlogs)

Required skills & experience

• 8+ years in solution architecture or senior engineering roles
• Strong hands-on AWS experience (ECS/Fargate, API Gateway, Lambda, Glue, S3, RDS, KMS, Secrets Manager)
• Hands-on data architecture experience, including secure data sharing and row-level security
• Experience with MWAA / Apache Airflow orchestration and dbt transformation patterns
• Identity & access design with OIDC / OAuth 2.0 / JWT
• Proven on-premises-to-cloud application migration experience
• Strong integration-pattern and enterprise-systems knowledge; DevOps and CI/CD familiarity
• Demonstrated use of AI tools to analyse code/docs and create architecture artefacts

Nice to have

• Capital Markets / Asset Management domain exposure

isgSearch does not use artificial intelligence throughout the hiring process