Designs and governs secure, scalable client solutions from discovery through implementation. Partners with Sales on technical discovery, feasibility, RFPs, and proof of concepts, while leading integration architecture across APIs, data flows, event-driven systems, cloud infrastructure, and deployment. Documents reference architectures, ensures regulatory and security compliance, reduces delivery risk, and mentors internal teams. Requires financial crime or AML experience, enterprise architecture expertise, and strong client communication skills.
Imagine catching criminals before they strike - that’s exactly what Napier’s AI-powered platform does! By analysing transactions and customers in real time, Napier AI’s technology empowers financial institutions to spot suspicious activity, like money laundering, and stops it in its tracks.
Napier AI’s technology works like a digital detective, combining AI with smart analytics to outthink criminals and protect people’s money from becoming criminal proceeds. It’s not just about stopping crime - it’s about making the financial world safer and more trustworthy for everyone.
Collaboration, innovation and wonderful people are just some of the reasons to bring your career to Napier. Our culture is shaped by our core values that promote equality, creativity, and opportunity in everything we do.
Overview of the role:
As a Solution Architect, you will act as the technical bridge between clients, Sales, and delivery - while sitting primarily within Professional Services. The core purpose of the role is to reduce delivery risk by owning solution design and architecture from discovery through implementation, ensuring robust, scalable, secure, and supportable outcomes. You will partner closely with Sales to validate feasibility, de-risk deals, and shape realistic commitments, then remain accountable for architectural integrity once the deal is signed. This is a hands-on, client-facing, revenue-generating role requiring both technical depth and commercial pragmatism.
As a Solution Architect, you will act as the technical bridge between clients, Sales, and delivery - while sitting primarily within Professional Services. The core purpose of the role is to reduce delivery risk by owning solution design and architecture from discovery through implementation, ensuring robust, scalable, secure, and supportable outcomes. You will partner closely with Sales to validate feasibility, de-risk deals, and shape realistic commitments, then remain accountable for architectural integrity once the deal is signed. This is a hands-on, client-facing, revenue-generating role requiring both technical depth and commercial pragmatism.
Your day to day: Solution Architect
Client Solutioning:
- Rapidly understand client environments, data flows, and business needs. Tailor solution designs and communications to diverse technical and business audiences.
Integration Leadership:
- Architect and document end-to-end solutions, focusing on data integration, transformation, and orchestration using modern tools (e.g., NiFi, API gateways, Kafka, Kubernetes), integration patterns for asynchronous, event driven systems.
Technical Pre-sales (Discovery & De-risking):
- Partner with Sales during technical discovery to validate feasibility, surface constraints and dependencies, and shape pragmatic solution approaches. Support sales cycles with solution recommendations, responses to technical queries, and contributions to RFPs/RFIs. Lead targeted proof of concepts where needed to validate assumptions and de-risk integrations.
Deliery Architecture Ownership:
- Own the end-to-end solution design and architecture through implementation once a deal is signed. Provide architectural governance across build, configuration, integration, and deployment; review designs and changes; and ensure delivery teams have clear blueprints, standards, and decision logs to reduce complexity, timelines, and risk.
Standardisation & Reuse:
- Drive standard patterns, reference architectures, and repeatable integration approaches to reduce bespoke delivery over time. Identify opportunities to simplify implementations, improve margins, and feed recurring delivery learnings into pre-sales discovery and product/service improvements.
Data & Architecture:
- Specify and map data flows, formats (JSON, XML, CSV, graph), and transports (HTTP, S/FTP, Kafka, MQ). Address challenges of async/sync and streaming communications, including idempotency, retries, rate limiting, error handling, and timeouts
Security & Compliance:
- Confidently explain the platform’s information security controls and data protection measures to clients, translating concepts such as encryption, access control, and regulatory compliance into clear, business‑friendly language. Apply information security principles (confidentiality, integrity, availability) and ensure solutions meet regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR).
Documentation & Enablement:
- Produce clear technical documentation and mentor internal teams.
Do you have what it takes?
Essential:
- Experience in financial crime, compliance, or AML domains.
- Strong background in enterprise software, cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP), and secure deployment.
- Broad experience of business, data, software and technology architecture and the inter-relationships.
- Expertise in API-based integration, ETL, data transformation, and orchestration technologies (NiFi, Kafka, API gateways, Kubernetes).
- Understanding of data representation formats and transport protocols.
- Familiarity with information security best practices and secure data transfer (encryption, key management).
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; able to establish credibility with client architecture teams.
- Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and perform under pressure.
Desirable:
- Experience with large data sets, distributed systems, and performance testing.
- Knowledge of SSO/OIDC/SAML/SCIM and identity providers.
- Hands-on with Elasticsearch, TimeSeries DB, or similar.
- Experience with SaaS platforms in regulated industries.
Why Napier?
- Comprehensive private healthcare through AXA covering optical, audio & dental.
- 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays + your birthday and a wellness day
- Dedicated pension plan through Aviva.
- Life Insurance 4x your annual salary.
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave.
- Income protections policy.
- Work from anywhere for up to 1 month.
- Access to our employee wellbeing programme.
- Gym membership discounts.
- Flexibility in work schedules and locations, ensuring a work-life balance.
- This role can be fulfilled either with a hybrid approach or fully in-office – depending on your preference.
- An open and flexible culture that allows you to work in the best way for you.
Please note applicants must have the right to work in the United Kingdom. We are unable to offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of employment visas at this time.
About
We are compliance technology specialists. Our platform is founded on broad experience and deep expertise; and our products increase efficiency and minimise risk by successfully combining big data technologies with AI and machine learning. It all adds up to the world’s first truly intelligent compliance platform.But tech is only half the story. Our intelligent approach is applied to underpin your policy, process and procedure, so you can focus on specific outcomes. The Napier platform is fast, scalable and easily configurable, as well as user-friendly. It rapidly strengthens your AML defences and trade compliance capabilities, while meeting your company’s compliance obligations and challenges in any sector.
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