Solutions Architect at Insight International, United Kingdom, £Contract Rate

JOB DESCRIPTION

Role: Solutions Architect

Location: United Kingdom & Europe

Mode: Remote

Type: Contract Outside IR35

Client Domain: Banking/Finance

We are seeking a highly skilled Cloud Solutions Architect to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in designing and implementing cloud native applications, specifically within the banking, investment, or capital markets sectors. You will play a key role in designing scalable and secure data platforms leveraging Databricks and cloud technologies to drive business value for our clients.

Skills and Experience

• Proven experience designing and delivering AWS cloud architecture.
• Proven experience as a Solutions Architect with hands-on expertise in Databricks platform.
• Proven background in cloud migration and cloud-native solutions.
• Deep understanding of AWS services, particularly across security and networking.
• Experience working in DevOps environments (CI/CD, automation, IaaC), driving automation and infrastructure-as-code approaches across platforms.
• Extensive background working in the banking, investment, or capital markets domain.
• Strong understanding of data engineering concepts, including ETL/ELT pipelines, data lakes, and real-time data processing.
• Pro-actively define, optimize, automate, publish and communicate deployment patterns for migration.
• Support engineering teams in optimizing the migration path.
• Documentation of deployed systems, scripts and other working practices to enable, re-use and support users across the world
• Working closely with stakeholders to translate mission-critical requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect end-to-end Databricks-based data solutions tailored for banking, investment, or capital markets clients.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Lead the implementation of scalable data pipelines, ensuring security, performance, and compliance.
• Provide technical guidance and best practices to internal teams and clients.
• Stay updated on emerging trends in data engineering, Databricks, and cloud technologies.