Senior Solutions and Enterprise Architect

Senior Solutions and Enterprise Architect

UK - Edinburgh

Overview

Senior Solutions & Enterprise Architect

Location: Edinburgh (Hybrid) | Practice Area: Technology & Engineering | Type: Permanent

Shape financial services solutions to complex enterprise and customer challenges.

Role overview: You will play a pivotal role in helping shape our clients' technology programmes, from designing innovative digital products and services to enterprise-grade platforms leveraging emerging technology. You will lead solution design in pursuit of business vision, working hands-on with engineering teams to translate strategy into reality. You\'ll also influence broader technology direction through advising on architectural strategy, pattern and standard definition, and promoting effective governance.

You\'ll create customer-centric solutions while guiding small, impactful teams through complex technical challenges in agile delivery. You will also contribute to our Technology and Engineering Practice by mentoring junior architects and driving commercial value at Capco through delivery excellence and active participation in business development initiatives.

This role will sit in our Scotland office, with potential to work in either Edinburgh or Glasgow depending on client expectations.

Required Experience

• Design scalable, resilient solution architectures that align with enterprise strategies and business outcomes.
• Deploying modern architecture patterns including microservices, APIs, events, sagas, containerisation, and serverless.
• Experience with at least one core Financial Services domain: Capital Markets, Retail Banking, Payments, Insurance or Wealth & Asset Management.
• Translating business requirements into clear, implementable technical designs through people leadership and working closely with engineering teams.
• Building trusted relationships with senior leadership and influencing key decisions.
• Operating within agile delivery models and modern delivery practices (e.g., SAFe and DevOps).
• Applying recognised architecture frameworks, methods, or techniques (e.g., TOGAF, Domain-Driven Design, or NIST) in a pragmatic way.

Nice to have

• Consulting or client-facing delivery experience in complex environments.
• Designing greenfield or cloud-first solutions within enterprise-scale organisations.
• Contributing to the development or maturation of architecture practices or communities.
• Familiarity with emerging technologies, including AI solutions.

Why Join Capco?

At Capco, you’ll be part of a collaborative, entrepreneurial, and inclusive culture working with Tier 1 financial services enterprises on impactful and enriching projects. We offer a competitive, people-first benefits package to support your growth as both a technologist and a consultant.

Benefits

• Mental health: access to CareFirst, Unmind, Aviva consultations, and in-house first aiders.
• Family care: 8 complimentary backup care sessions for emergency childcare or eldercare.
• Holiday flexibility: 5 weeks of annual leave with the option to buy or sell days.
• Continual learning: minimum 40 hours of annual training, including workshops, certifications, e-learning, and ongoing business coaching.
• Extras: Gympass (Wellhub), travel insurance, Tastecard, season ticket loans, and Cycle to Work scheme.

Notice

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