Platform Solutions Architect GCP, SDLC - Bank - London

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This role is for a Platform Solutions Architect (GCP, SDLC) in London, offering £650 - £750 per day for a 6-month contract. Key skills include enterprise architecture, cloud-native solutions, microservices, and DevOps experience. Hybrid work with 3 days on-site required.
🌎 - Country
United Kingdom
💱 - Currency
£ GBP
💰 - Day rate
Unknown
Unknown
750
🗓️ - Date discovered
April 24, 2025
🕒 - Project duration
More than 6 months
🏝️ - Location type
Hybrid
📄 - Contract type
Inside IR35
🔒 - Security clearance
Unknown
📍 - Location detailed
London
🧠 - Skills detailed
#Scala #API (Application Programming Interface) #Automated Testing #Docker #Spring Boot #Agile #Java #C# #Cloud #Logging #React #GraphQL #Python #Consul #DevOps #"ETL (Extract #Transform #Load)" #Observability #Microservices #Leadership #NoSQL #Angular #SQL (Structured Query Language) #Containers #Consulting #Automation #GCP (Google Cloud Platform) #REST (Representational State Transfer)
Role description

Platform Solutions Architect (GCP, SDLC) - Bank - London 

Day rate: £650 - £750 inside IR35 

Duration: 6 months 

Start: ASAP

Hybrid: 3 days on site 

My banking client is looking for a Platform Solution architect on a contract basis. They want an engineering expert with an agile mindset who is accountable for high-quality delivery of the software across all phases of the SDLC. They possess deep understanding  and experience of driving enterprise-level modern architecture, robust software engineering practices and cloud adoption. They also collaborate with senior clients across technology and business domains and wider delivery and consulting teams to achieve business  outcomes.

Your Impact:

   • Understand financial services clients' business outcomes and help define future/evolutionary architecture (e.g. distributed enterprise-scale cloud-native solutions & products), transition states, technology choices and operating model

   • Help to drive enterprise-scale engineering transformation to enable accelerated growth initiatives and best-in-class customer experiences

   • Rearchitect client monoliths into highly robust, scalable microservices-based digital platforms

   • Contribute towards our best in class engineering practices & initiatives, mentor and inspire a diverse and highly motivated engineering talent

   • Represent in industry forums and platforms

Designing and building solutions that transform our clients into top tech firms will be what drives you. As a platform Solution architect you will relish the role of technical expert across software design and architecture, bringing with you high engineering  standards, leadership and motivational skills. 

Qualifications

   • Extensive experience in defining end-to-end enterprise architecture

   • Experience in leading large-scale, complex, and distributed applications development of Cloud-native solutions (GCP)

   • Excellent knowledge and understanding of software design/architectural concepts like Event-driven Architecture, Microservices, Domain-driven design, SOLID, DRY, SoC, etc.

   • Software development background of large-scale distributed systems with exposure to multiple languages (like Java, C#, Go, Scala, Python etc.)

   • Hands-on experience with frameworks like Spring Boot, Node.js

   • Experience with/exposure to frontend technology frameworks like React, Angular etc

   • Experience in API styles such as Async API, REST, SOAP, GraphQl, gRPC. Understanding of the various data solutions (like OLAPs, OLTP, graph, no-SQL etc.) and respective applications.

   • Containers and building container-based platforms using Docker, GKE, AKS etc.

   • DevOps/automation experience (CI, CD, Observability, Aggregated Logging & Engineering Metrics)

   • Quality Engineering (e.g., Test Pyramid, Automated Testing etc.)

   • Non-functional testing (e.g., performance, accessibility, multilingual, multi-device etc.)

   • Rates depend on experience and client requirements