Technical Solution Architect

Technical Solutions Architect

Salary: £80,000 - £100,000

Location: Hybrid - London

About the Role

This is an opportunity to grow into a senior technical leadership position with a team building next-generation infrastructure for regulated financial markets.

You'll sit at the intersection of engineering, product, and client delivery, helping evolve the architecture of a ledger-based post-trade platform. You'll start hands-on as a senior engineer, and take on increasing ownership of system design, technical direction, and solution architecture as you grow into the role.

Why This Role

You'll have real influence in a small, high-calibre team, with close exposure to modern financial market infrastructure and a genuine voice in product and architectural decisions. Expect a fast learning curve across technology, regulation, and market structure.

What You'll Do

Architecture & System Design

Design secure, scalable distributed systems for regulated environments

Define and evolve system architecture, APIs, and integration patterns

Apply sound software design patterns and architectural principles

Contribute to decisions on ledger and smart contract design

Build in auditability, resilience, and operational robustness from the outset

Distributed Ledger & Digital Assets

Work directly with distributed ledger technology and smart contracts

Help design models covering tokenised and natively digital assets

Work on atomic settlement, and DvP/RvP settlement mechanisms

Explore integration concepts for central bank digital currencies

Weigh up trade-offs between on-chain and off-chain components

Financial Services Context

Translate regulatory and market-structure requirements into technical design

Build a working understanding of settlement models and post-trade infrastructure

Operate within relevant compliance frameworks (e.g. data and securities regulation)

Engineering & Delivery

Write production-quality code (Java, JavaScript, Solidity, SQL)

Review code and help set engineering best practice

Improve CI/CD pipelines, testing strategy, and observability

Communication & Inf...