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Date Posted: 13/05/2025
Location: London
Job Type: Full time
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Solutions Architect - Capital Management & Investment
Full Time - 35 hours
London – hybrid
Who are Just?
We’re a FTSE 250 Financial Services company who specialise in retirement solutions and right now, our world is moving pretty quickly. With the defined benefit buy in / buy out space growing each year, Just continues to annually grow its business by over £4bn of assets.
We are a purpose driven company with compelling and credible goals. Quite simply, we help people achieve a better later life. We achieve this by providing competitive and innovative products, services, financial advice and guidance to help our customers achieve security, certainty and provide them with peace of mind in retirement.
That’s who we are. We’re a company on a mission: to become a beacon for the entire retirement industry. Because we believe everyone deserves a fair, secure, and fulfilling retirement.
Purpose
We are seeking a
Solutions Architect to join our growing team—a newly created role driven by business expansion. This position will focus on designing and supporting the delivery of technical solutions aligned with our company’s business strategy, digital transformation goals, and enterprise standards. The role is specifically positioned within the
Capital Management & Investment domain.
Role Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain technology roadmaps and system strategies aligned with business goals.
- Identify opportunities to apply technology for business benefit in collaboration with stakeholders.
- Evaluate and recommend solutions based on cost, impact, and feasibility.
- Ensure designs meet regulatory, legal, and risk requirements.
- Communicate architecture strategies across technical and non-technical teams.
- Define non-functional requirements and key system components.
- Lead solution design within agile delivery frameworks, maintaining design integrity through change.
- Support iterative, MVP-aligned design and promote continuous improvement.
- Raise awareness of emerging technologies and existing capabilities.
- Recommend tools, design patterns, and practices.
- Stay current with technology trends and industry developments.
Examples of Key Activities
- Shape solutions by working closely with business leaders, programme managers, product owners, delivery teams, third parties, and vendors.
- Champion design integrity by actively contributing to agile ceremonies like lean start-up, PI planning, and refinement sessions.
- Present and defend architectural designs to the Technical Design Authority.
- Participate in governance boards—reviewing software, due diligence, and change requests to ensure compliance and architectural alignment.
- Accelerate delivery by enabling teams through prototypes, proof of concepts, and clear architectural guidance.
- Mentor peers and foster knowledge-sharing through communities of practice.
- Strengthen the architecture community by collaborating with fellow architects to improve standards, tools, and ways of working.
Key Skills And Experience
- Proven experience with financial and investment platforms, modelling tools, Excel/Python solutions, data platforms, and the integration of these systems is essential
- Hands-on expertise in architecting solutions using Microsoft Azure (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
- Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, networking, and traditional on-premises environments.
- Familiarity with microservices architecture, APIs, and API management.
- Experience with architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF) and design patterns (e.g. SOA, microservices).
- Proficiency with SQL Server, NoSQL, Blob storage, and modern data storage technologies.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft 365 products and enterprise capabilities.
- Commercial background in technology, ideally within Financial Services.
- Demonstrated success in Solution Architecture within agile delivery environments.
- Self-driven and able to deliver complex solutions with minimal supervision.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to convey complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Company Benefits
- A Competitive Salary, Pension Scheme and Life Assurance
- Along with 25 Days Annual Leave plus an Additional Day on us for your Birthday
- Private Medical Cover and Income Protection, just in case
- A generous and highly achievable bonus scheme – paid annually based on individual and company performance against targets
- Opportunity to progress within your career both in-role and within the company
- FREE access to the Headspace App, a 24/7 Employee Assistance Helpline and Trained Physical & Mental Health First Aiders (On-Site)
- A variety of Employee Funded Benefits available to you via our Online Benefits Portal
- Plus, several additional purchase options available for you and your loved ones
Why Just?
We are committed to building a more sustainable business and have publicly committed to reduce our scope 3 emissions to Net Zero by 2050 and our scope 1 and 2 emissions to Net Zero by 2025. We’ve made good progress so far and encourage our people to make small and meaningful changes in their everyday lives, so that we can protect our planet for future generations.
Diversity, Equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority for Just as part of our overall strategy and ensuring all of our people feel proud to work at Just. We have joined a number of initiatives including the Race at Work Charter, designed to improve outcomes for employees from underrepresented backgrounds. We also run a Reciprocal Mentoring scheme for employees from a BAME background, those with a disability and those who identify as LGBTQ+. There are multiple employee network groups, which champion issues including race, gender, social mobility and neurodiversity.
What’s clear about working at Just is that we care. We care about our customers, our purpose, our environment, inclusivity, wellbeing and most importantly - each other.
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