Senior Solution Architect (Mobile)

• We’re looking for a Senior Solution Architect to help shape the future of our mobile technology landscape. This is a senior architecture role where you’ll define and orchestrate complex solution architectures that support strategic business outcomes and align with our wider technology strategy. You’ll work across product, engineering and architecture teams to provide a clear technical direction, helping delivery teams move faster by resolving architectural complexity early and ensuring solutions are secure, resilient and scalable. You’ll play a key role in shaping the architecture roadmap for our mobile platforms, influencing decisions that impact customer experience, engineering effectiveness and long-term technology sustainability
• Leading the end-to-end solution architecture for complex mobile initiatives, ensuring designs support customer, business and technology objectives
• Creating architecture roadmaps, solution designs and technical options that enable delivery teams to make informed decisions and deliver at pace
• Working with Product Owners, Engineering Leads and Enterprise Architects to align strategic priorities, dependencies and delivery plans
• Embedding secure-by-design and resilient-by-design principles into mobile solutions from discovery through to live service
• Identifying and managing architectural risks, technical debt and cross-platform dependencies while balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term platform health
• Driving the adoption of common patterns, reusable capabilities and engineering standards across mobile teams

Benefits

• A generous holiday allowance: You’ll be eligible for a minimum of 22 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), rising to 30 days based on length of service and grade.
• A flexible way of working: Whether you want flexibility over your location or when you log on, together we can create an approach that works for you and for the business.
• Family leave: Up to 63 weeks of maternity or adoption leave. Statutory maternity or adoption pay is available for 39 weeks, and 20 weeks will be enhanced to the equivalent of full pay. Partners can have six weeks of fully paid paternity leave.
• Flex cash: This is 4% of your basic salary and can be used to spend on the benefits of your choice, or you can choose to take it as a cash top up in your monthly salary.
• Health insurance: Our company funded Private Medical Benefit provides all colleagues with access to good quality medical care, including accommodation, nursing care and specialist advice.
• Colleague Offers: Get discounts on everything from electrical items to cinema tickets and weekly food shopping. You can share this benefit with up to ten family members or friends.
• Financial products: Take advantage of our great financial products, some at a discounted rate, including current accounts, home and car insurance and loans.
• Share plans: Participate in Sharematch and receive matching shares of up to £45 a month from the company, and you can choose to participate in Sharesave, our combined savings and share option plan.
• Pension: We offer a generous pension plan, with all joiners being automatically enrolled in our ‘Your Tomorrow’ scheme. You can decide how much you save and get a say in where your contributions are invested.

• Experience contributing to architecture standards, reference patterns, technical communities or engineering capability development
• Experience working within a regulated financial services environment or another large-scale, complex organisation
• Significant experience designing and leading end-to-end solution architectures across applications, services, platforms and operational environments
• Proven ability to influence decisions, build alignment and provide technical leadership across complex, multi-disciplinary environments
• Strong knowledge of mobile architecture principles across Android and iOS platforms, including integration with APIs, backend services and shared platform capabilities
• Strong understanding of security and resilience principles, including secure design, risk management and operational readiness considerations
• Experience shaping architectural roadmaps, evaluating options and communicating technical trade-offs to a wide range of stakeholders
• Experience working within agile delivery environments and partnering closely with engineering, product and architecture teams
• Experience with cloud technologies, microservices, observability, platform engineering or service reliability practices

• End Date: Sunday 08 November 2026