29 Solution Architecture jobs in the United Kingdom

Who are Tyk, and what do we do?
The Tyk API Management platform is helping to drive the connected world and power new products and services. We’re changing the way that organisations connect any number of their systems and services. Whether internal, external, public or highly encrypted systems, Tyk helps businesses drive value across the retail, finance, telecoms, healthcare, or media industries (to name just a few!) 

If you’ve banked online, used an app to check the news, or perhaps even driven a connected car, API’s, and by extension, Tyk, make that possible. Founded in 2015 with offices in London - UK, London - Ontario, Atlanta and Singapore, we have many thousands of users of our B2B platform across the globe. Brands using Tyk range from Lotte, Bell, T Mobile, to RBS, Capital One and Vinci. We have a varied user base hailing from every continent – even Antarctica.

Our Mission

Tyk is on a mission to connect every system in the world. We’ve started by building an API Management platform.

Total flexibility, default remote, radical responsibility

We offer unlimited paid holidays and remote working from anywhere in the world , for everyone, Why? Tyk was founded on the principle of offering flexibility and autonomy to our employees, we believe this allows our employees to achieve their best results. It also means we can build the best possible team, location and working hours are no barrier. 

If this sounds like an environment that you believe could work for you then read on to find out more.

Requirements

The role:

Tyk is actively seeking an accomplished and dynamic Director of Solution Architecture to lead and inspire our team of Solution Architects. As a key player in our EMEA Commercial Team, you will drive team development, foster a customer-centric culture, and achieve strategic goals. If you are a seasoned professional with a proven track record in technical leadership, customer engagement, and team management, we want to hear from you!

Here’s what you’ll be getting up to:

As the Director of Solution Architecture for our EMEA team you will:

• Manage and lead Solution Architects, overseeing their technical development
• Lead the development and execution of skill and personal development plans for the Solution Architecture Team.
• Ensure the proficiency of Solutions Architect specialists in effectively engaging with clients and prospects.
• Identify and nurture region-specific skills to comprehensively cover the entire technical stack.
• Provide training and equip Presales, Customer, and Channel Solution Architects for their respective roles.
• Develop assets, artifacts, and processes to elevate the team's operational standards.
• Review high-value customer engagements and execute success plans
• Enable Solution Architects to deliver a best-in-class customer experience.
• Cultivate and promote a proactive customer experience culture within the team.
• Serve as a regional point of escalation for technical support, providing guidance in high-value customer situations.
• Share team successes, aligning them with goals, targets, and expectations.
• Contribute to Tyk's market visibility through asset creation and active participation in events.
• Conduct stakeholder meetings to represent the customer and design shared processes
• Maintain accurate KPIs and OKRs
• Collaborate with the VP of Sales to set individual and team goals, regional revenue, and customer KPIs.
• Establish and drive OKRs for the regional Solution Architecture team.
• Collaborate with the VP of Sales to meet regional revenue targets
• Standardise processes and assets in collaboration with other Directors of Solution Architecture.
• Advocate for best practices and effectively communicate complex technical requirements to internal teams.
• Support other teams through constructive feedback, challenge, and knowledge sharing.
• Contribute to business projects, GTM processes, and future growth plans.
• Engage directly with engineers and users to inform product and company vision.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Extensive expertise within solution architecture, cloud-native principles, and internet foundations.
• Solid experience as a people manager, developing high-performing teams.
• Background in solution architecture and knowledge of software development practices.
• Proficiency in Linux, scripting, internet technologies, and databases.
• Strong understanding of DevOps, deployment practices, and relevant technologies.
• Comprehensive experience in backend engineering or solution architecture for complex systems.
• Familiarity with K8s, EC2, AKS, Docker, GoLang, gRPC, GraphQL, SSL/TLS, Caching, Redis, Mongo, CI/CD.
• Proven experience defining, managing, and enabling successful proof of concepts.
• Advantageous: experience in Go, C, or C++ and domain expertise in API Management.

Benefits

Here’s why you should join us:

• Everyone has unlimited paid holidays. 
• We have total flexibility in hours, as we believe creativity flows better when our people are given freedom to decide when they are most productive. Everyone is unique after all.
• Employee share scheme
• Generous maternity and paternity leave
• Volunteering Days
• Company retreats
• Employee Wellbeing platform

We all share the same vision - we value authenticity, respect, responsibility, independence, honesty, diversity and inclusion and most importantly treating others how you wish to be treated. We look for like-minded people who bring their personalities to work everyday, strive to achieve their personal goals and who are willing to challenge the way we do things, why? - to make what we do even better!

Our values tell the story of Tyk - here’s how:

• It’s ok to screw up! 

We’ve found that it’s often the ‘stupid’ or unexpected ideas that turn out to be the successful ones - so try it, at least we can say we have!

• The only stupid idea, is the untested one! 

It’s in our DNA - starting a business with founders 12 hours apart, giving our gateway away for free - sure, we did that, and we’d do it again!

• Trust starts with you - make it count! 

Trust is a two-way street - instil it from day one!

• Assume best intent! 

We have each other’s back - we’re all on the same team. Think before you speak or act. 

• Make things better! 

Always try to leave things better than when you found them - change is constant, inevitable and embraced! Be that change we want to see.

What’s it like to work here! check it out:

Tyk is an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

You can see more about us here

We are seeking a highly skilled Solution Design Architect to join our Fintech customer on a pivotal transformation programme, consolidating multiple platforms into a single unified ecosystem. This role will sit at the intersection of technology, product, operations, compliance driving architectural design and governance to ensure seamless integration across payments, clients, finance, compliance, user experience and numerous partners systems.

About the Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled Solution Design Architect to join our Fintech customer on a pivotal transformation programme, consolidating multiple platforms into a single unified ecosystem. This role will sit at the intersection of technology, product, operations, compliance driving architectural design and governance to ensure seamless integration across payments, clients, finance, compliance, user experience and numerous partners systems.

The successful candidate will demonstrate a solid experience in Payments & Fintech, and be able to design robust, scalable, compliant and secure solutions that meet the business objectives, technical and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the end-to-end solution design architecture for the consolidation of legacy payment platforms into one, a major business and technical transformation
• Architectural design covers all facets of a payment processing platform, including core payment processing, finance processes, customer lifecycle management, fraud/anti money laundering solutions
• Collaborate with the Product team to understand the business requirements, and formulate design documentation, both high enterprise-level and low API levels
• Partner with Technology teams to translate business objectives into architectural blueprints and technical roadmaps. Provide technical leadership to the Tech teams throughout the implementation phases. Oversee solution implementation, resolving/escalating risks and issues as they arise
• Ensures the designs are compliant with the numerous regulations such as PCI/DSS, PSD, Electronic Money, AML and GDPR
• Define and document target-state architecture, including integration patterns, data flows, and security models. Produce high quality documentation such as architecture diagrams or design specifications
• Ensure all designs comply with regulatory and compliance frameworks, particularly around KYC, KYB, AML, and payments processing
• Contribute to the technology strategy for payments, digital wallets, and user experience platforms, aligning with best practice and emerging fintech trends
• Act as a key advisor to stakeholders on architectural trade-offs, costs, scalability, and risk.
• Participate in architecture/technical governance meetings
• Evaluate emerging technologies, runs proofs of concepts when required

Key Skills & Experience:

• Proven track record (2+ years) as a Solution Architect in financial services or fintech, ideally within a payment's environment
• Strong knowledge of payments processing, card, digital wallets, money movement, and financial ecosystems. Familiarity with as many banking networks as possible: UK (Faster Payments, BACS), Europe (SEPA), Australia (NPP), US. Familiarity with Swift and/or foreign exchange partners is beneficial
• Detailed awareness of compliance requirements: KYC, KYB, AML, GDPR, PCI/DSS, PSD, Electronic Money.
• Hands-on knowledge of integration patterns, APIs, cloud services such as AWS/Azure, and security frameworks. Strong technical understanding of RESTful APIs, micro services architectures, messaging systems. Familiar with cloud technologies. Azure would be beneficial.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with ability to communicate complex technical solutions to non-technical audiences
• Demonstrable experience in platform consolidation or large-scale system migrations
• Proactive, self-starter, thrives at problem solving

Preferred Qualifications:

• TOGAF, BCS, or equivalent architectural certification
• Experience with regulatory-driven transformation programmes in fintech or payments
• Background in e-wallets, payment gateways, or digital banking platforms

At Iron Mountain we know that work, when done well, makes a positive impact for our customers, our employees, and our planet. That’s why we need smart, committed people to join us. Whether you’re looking to start your career or make a change, talk to us and see how you can elevate the power of your work at Iron Mountain.

We provide expert, sustainable solutions in records and information management, digital transformation services, data centers, asset lifecycle management, and fine art storage, handling, and logistics. We proudly partner every day with our 225,000 customers around the world to preserve their invaluable artifacts, extract more from their inventory, and protect their data privacy in innovative and socially responsible ways.

Are you curious about being part of our growth story while evolving your skills in a culture that will welcome your unique contributions? If so, let's start the conversation.

Your role in our mission:

Reporting to the W&L Commercial Director in UK, Ireland, and being part of the European Commercial team, W&L Global Strategy & Solutions Design team, this role will need an experienced individual who can shape opportunities for customers to meet the demands of our growing Warehousing & Logistics Business.

The role will focus on the UK & Irish markets leading the sales work to deliver our ambitious growth targets and will support other global markets and opportunities as needed to meet the corporate objectives of the W&L business.

The role will provide crucial industry experience to develop and refine logistics solutions for customers, working with Operational colleagues to ensure we can meet client needs with the right commercial solution.

It’s a role that spans Operations, Commercial and Product Development to ensure we are well placed to deliver the growth.

• Lead the development of innovative, scalable, and cost-effective logistics solutions that meet client requirements and align with the company’s strategic goals
• Design and presentation of warehouse capital investments, processes and determination of costs involved
• Ensure logistics solutions are developed in a timely manner to meet customers’ expectations and show Iron Mountain to be a responsive and collaborative partner.
• Work closely with Operational and Systems colleagues to ensure every requirement is captured and commercial risk is minimised.
• Build contract mobilisation programmes to demonstrate how we bring our solutions to life.
• Develop workflows for customers that balance internal standard processes with specific customer requirements
• Ensure the commercial model for opportunities fits with the customer expectations.
• Work with the wider W&L team to develop our W&L Product offerings over time.

Valued skills and experience:

The ideal candidate will have multiple years of experience in Contract Logistics; preferably in a mix of organisations and sectors, including:

• Working on large and complex projects
• Has a experience of commercial pricing and financial structures of operations and contracts
• Track record of solving and closing large, recurring deals within the Retail/FMCG, E-com, High Tech Industry customers
• Track record of developing complex logistics solutions for customers, including evaluation and selection of automation to optimize productivity and reduce labor availability risk exposure, subsequently turning into sales
• Be used to working in a global organisation and collaborative matrix structure
• Be used to working under timelines pressure and ambiguity
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Applications (Excel, Work, PowerPoint and Visio) and Google applications
• Modelling tools like CAST, CLASS, Paragon, Autocad or similar

Discover what we offer:

• Be part of an ever evolving global organisation focused on transformation
• Have a support system where you have a safe place to voice your opinion and share feedback
• Open space to be entrepreneurial, creative, strategize, brainstorm, and plan for the future success of Iron Mountain
• Global connectivity to learn from 27,000+ teammates across 63 countries
• Be part of a winning team who embrace diversity, inclusion, and our differences

We are seeking a highly skilled Solution Design Architect to join our Fintech customer on a pivotal transformation programme, consolidating multiple platforms into a single unified ecosystem. This role will sit at the intersection of technology, product, operations, compliance driving architectural design and governance to ensure seamless integration across payments, clients, finance, compliance, .

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