Senior Solutions Architect Banking & AI-Native Solutions

Role: Senior Solutions Architect - Banking & AI-Native Solutions

Location: London (Fenchurch Street) - Hybrid (3 days on-site)

Type : Permanent

Important:

Experience: 15+ Years (Enterprise/Solution Architecture)

Cloud Mandatory: Deep expertise in at least ONE (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Domain & Focus: Banking, Capital Markets & AI-Native Systems

Role Overview

Coforge is seeking an accomplished and visionary Senior Solutions Architect to lead large-scale architectural and digital transformations for our Tier-1 and growth Banking & Financial Services clients in the UK and Europe. In this strategic role based out of our London (Fenchurch Street) office, you will define target-state enterprise architectures, bridge Legacy core banking platforms with modern cloud-native ecosystems, and spearhead the implementation of AI-native engineering and agentic systems across critical banking workloads.

Key Responsibilities

• Enterprise & Solution Architecture: Architect robust, highly resilient, and scalable target-state solutions on a major hyperscaler (AWS, Azure, or GCP mandatory) tailored to complex banking environments.
• AI-Native Engineering & Agentic Workflows: Pioneer the integration of AI-native architecture patterns-including agentic workflows, autonomous systems, RAG pipelines, and model-driven orchestration-into core banking, payments, and risk operations.
• Domain Modernization & Composable Banking: Translate complex business requirements across retail banking, corporate banking, payments (eg, ISO 20022), and open banking into modular, event-driven, and API-first architectures.
• Pre-Sales, Bids & Advisory: Partner with client CTOs, Enterprise Architects, and Coforge sales leaders to lead technical discovery, respond to complex RFPs, design proof-of-concepts, and deliver compelling C-suite architectural blueprints.
• Regulatory & Financial Resilience: Ensure all target architectural blueprints align with stringent UK/EU financial regulatory standards, cyber resilience frameworks (DORA, PRA/FCA guidelines), and data sovereignty mandates.
• Technical Leadership & Governance: Guide multidisciplinary engineering squads, establish architecture guardrails, and conduct rigorous design reviews to ensure alignment with target-state blueprints.

Qualifications & Experience

• 15+ Years of Experience: Substantial, progressive track record spanning hands-on software engineering, distributed systems design, and enterprise/solution architecture.
• Banking Domain Expertise: Deep functional and technical knowledge within retail/commercial banking, payments ecosystems (ISO 20022, Faster Payments, SWIFT), transaction processing, lending, or capital markets.
• Public Cloud Mastery (Mandatory Single Cloud): Deep, hands-on architectural expertise in at least ONE major public cloud platform-AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)-with professional-level cloud architecture certifications highly preferred.
• AI-Native & Next-Gen Systems: Proven conceptual and practical grasp of AI-native paradigms, multi-agent frameworks, LLM orchestrations, semantic vector search, and modern data streaming architectures.
• Modern Architectural Paradigms: Expertise in Microservices, Modular Monoliths, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), and REST/GraphQL API ecosystems.
• Executive Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to engage, influence, and build trust with C-level stakeholders, client architecture boards, and cross-functional engineering teams.