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
Company Overview
Leighton provides custom software solutions. It was founded in 1992, and is headquartered in Houghton Le Spring, Durham, GBR, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.leighton.com/.