[Remote] Principal Solutions Architect - Finance, Data and Platform

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Leighton is a trusted company with over 33 years of experience in developing and delivering custom software solutions. They are seeking a seasoned Principal Solutions Architect to lead architectural initiatives within a finance platform modernization program, ensuring alignment with financial processes and regulatory standards while guiding teams through complex financial workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture across all domains — application, integration, data, cloud and security
• Define and evolve the target-state architecture for a modernised holiday-packaging platform
• Govern solution decisions and run architecture decision review forums
• Establish architectural standards, patterns, guardrails and governance models
• Translate business capabilities, value streams and operational processes into technical architectures
• Review high‑level and low‑level design artefacts for alignment and quality
• Oversee API strategy, integration patterns, and AI-readiness
• Shape contact-centre architecture and integrations using Amazon Connect
• Enable teams to deliver safe value with your expertise in information security and data privacy
• Map and manage cross‑programme dependencies and multi‑company integration challenges
• Support teams with technical spikes, PoCs, and de‑risking complex design areas
• Influence senior stakeholders and navigate organisational politics across group-level entities Support executive decision-making through technical appraisal
• Align architectural decisions with technical strategy, commercial targets, risk constraints and delivery timelines
• Set and guide operating models for the transition to BAU and day 2 operations

Skills

• Deep experience spanning application, data, integration, security and cloud architecture
• Experience within React Environments, Snowflake and IaC (Ideally Terraform)
• Proven track record designing and governing public cloud‑based platforms (AWS preferred)
• Strong working knowledge of modern event-driven/API/microservice patterns
• Familiarity with customer support and finance journeys
• Experience with governance in large delivery programmes
• Ability to influence, review and guide architecture across distributed, autonomous product teams
• Good grasp of enterprise capability modelling, value streams, and end‑to‑end business flows
• Experience integrating numerous third‑party vendors and systems
• Skilled at managing architectural risk, decision trade‑offs, and long-term maintainability
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• A team enablement and host-leadership mindset, promoting best practices and engineering culture
• Comfort balancing strategic leadership with hands-on architectural contribution
• Travel or retail industry experience is desirable, but strong experience in any large-scale consumer or regulated digital platform is equally relevant
• Experience designing multi-tenant, internationalised systems
• Knowledge or experience of architecting for compliance with ISO 27001, SOC 2, and PCI-DSS frameworks
• Practical experience of applying Team Topologies and Conway's Law as part of architecture practice
• Background in modernising large monolithic platforms under commercial constraints
• Knowledge of fraud‑management, revenue‑management, and financial architecture domains
• Familiarity with secure‑by‑design frameworks and regulated-cloud standards
• Experience contributing to or establishing enterprise architecture functions
• Exposure to multi-cloud or hybrid integration environments
• Experience with modern data product architectures, data meshes, and reverse ETL
• Prior consulting experience delivering complex transformation programmes

Benefits

• A competitive salary this will be dependent on experience.
• A contributory pension scheme
• Private healthcare
• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and the opportunity to buy or sell holiday
• A flexible approach to working hours
• Continuous personal development, career path and training

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