Senior Solutions & Enterprise Architect
Location: Edinburgh (Hybrid) | Practice Area: Technology & Engineering | Type: Permanent
Shape financial services solutions to complex enterprise and customer challenges.
About Capco
Capco is a global leader in technology and business consulting, dedicated to driving digital innovation and transformation in financial services. We’ve partnered with over 200 clients worldwide - from pioneering FinTech's to established global institutions - helping them adapt, compete, and scale in a rapidly evolving industry. With more than 30 offices globally, we combine deep expertise in banking, payments, capital markets, insurance, wealth and asset management, and energy with an agile, inclusive, and entrepreneurial culture.
Role Overview
You will play a pivotal role in helping shape our clients' technology programmes, from designing innovative digital products and services to enterprise-grade platforms leveraging emerging technology. You will lead solution design in pursuit of business vision, working hands-on with engineering teams to translate strategy into reality. You'll also influence broader technology direction through advising on architectural strategy, pattern and standard definition, and promoting effective governance.
You'll create customer-centric solutions while guiding small, impactful teams through complex technical challenges in agile delivery. Finally, you will also contribute to our Technology and Engineering Practice by mentoring junior architects, fostering knowledge sharing across our technical community, and driving commercial value at Capco through delivery excellence and active participation in business development initiatives.
This role will sit in our Scotland office, with a need to potentially work in either Edinburgh or Glasgow depending on client expectations.
Required Experience
To succeed in this role, you should have proven experience in:
- Designing scalable, resilient solution architectures that align with enterprise strategies and business outcomes.
- Working across legacy and modern environments, including at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure).
- Deploying modern architecture patterns including microservices, APIs, events, sagas, containerisation, and serverless.
- Experience within at least one core Financial Services domain: Capital Markets, Retail Banking, Payments, Insurance or Wealth & Asset Management.
- Translating business requirements into clear, implementable technical designs through personal leadership and working closely with engineering teams.
- Building trusted relationships with senior leadership and influencing key decisions.
- Operating within agile delivery models and modern delivery practices (e.g. SAFe and DevOps).
- Applying recognised architecture frameworks, methods, or techniques (e.g. TOGAF, Domain-Driven Design, or NIST) in a pragmatic way.
While not mandatory, experience in the following areas is beneficial:
- Consulting or client-facing delivery experience in complex environments.
- Supporting pre-sales, proposals, or bid activities alongside senior leaders.
- Designing greenfield or cloud-first solutions within enterprise-scale organisations.
- Contributing to the development or maturation of architecture practices or communities.
- Familiarity with emerging technologies, including AI solutions.
- Certification in relevant frameworks, methodology, or technology (e.g. TOGAF, or AWS).
Why Join Capco?
At Capco, you’ll be part of a collaborative, entrepreneurial, and inclusive culture working with Tier 1 financial services enterprises on impactful and enriching projects. We offer a competitive, people-first benefits package to support your growth as both a technologist and a consultant.
Our benefits include:
- Core benefits: discretionary bonus, competitive pension, health and dental insurance, life insurance, and critical illness cover.
- Mental health: access to CareFirst, Unmind, Aviva consultations, and in-house first aiders.
- Family-friendly: maternity, adoption, shared parental leave, plus paid leave for sickness, pregnancy loss, fertility treatment, menopause, and bereavement.
- Family care: 8 complimentary backup care sessions for emergency childcare or elder care.
- Holiday flexibility: 5 weeks of annual leave with the option to buy or sell days.
- Continuous learning: minimum 40 hours of annual training, including workshops, certifications, e-learning, and ongoing business coaching.
- Extra perks: Gympass (Wellhub), travel insurance, Tastecard, season ticket loans, and Cycle to Work scheme.
Inclusion at Capco
We’re committed to making our recruitment process accessible and straightforward. If you need adjustments at any stage, please let us know. We value each person’s unique perspective and contribution. At Capco, we believe that being yourself is your greatest strength. Our #BeYourselfAtWork culture encourages individuality and collaboration - a mindset that shapes how we work with clients and each other every day.
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