A Financial Services Company in Southampton is currently seeking a Solutions Architect to join their Technology team. The company are currently going through a lot of positive change and digital transformation across various user platforms, with improvements across the digitalization of key applications. The company are well into their cloud journey, partnering with Azure, as well as using other state-of-the art tools to successfully make these changes. This person will help create IT design solutions for business units and functions, building technology domain requirements aligned to the Enterprise Architecture framework, as well as key Strategy and long term roadmaps. This team are responsible for the digital design and build out of capabilities for key applications, and driving downstream development of these key changes. The team also helps support the development, maintenance, communication and implementation of the solution designs, as well as conducting in-depth technical reviews, and bringing together key expertise to ensure designs are fit for purpose. Key Requirements; Proven track record working in Technology Solution Design, from an applications perspective. Experience within a wide variety of IT functions, including system analysis, development and project management. Understanding of industry bestpractice and trendstogether with their application within a business context. Knowledge of a wide variety of technologies including several of the disciplines in strategic IT architecture covering either application, infrastructure, data or security architecture with evidenced practice of at least two domains. Any experience of working across Financial Service is beneficial, but not essential