Solution Architect

Summary

Join ZILO™, a UK-based FinTech company specializing in global asset and wealth management software, and be part of a dynamic team redefining technology. The company uses AI technology to scale and transform businesses. This role focuses on designing and owning the architecture for new features and services on the core microservices platform. You will champion robust, scalable solutions and collaborate with engineering and product teams. The position requires a deep understanding of microservices, event-driven architecture, and related technologies. ZILO™ offers a variety of benefits, including private healthcare, enhanced leave, life assurance, flexible working, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• Proven experience designing and delivering architectures for large-scale, distributed microservices systems
• Deep understanding of microservice patterns, event-driven architecture, and domain-driven design
• Hands-on expertise with Kafka (or similar event streaming platforms), asynchronous messaging, and API design
• Ability to communicate complex architectural concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Collaborative, pragmatic mindset with a strong sense of ownership

Responsibilities

• Design and own the architecture for new features and services on our core microservices platform
• Champion robust, scalable solutions leveraging microservice patterns, event-driven architectures, and best-in-class technology to deliver customer and business value
• Design end-to-end solutions for new features and platform enhancements on our microservices stack
• Lead architecture reviews and propose designs that are scalable, secure, and aligned with business requirements
• Document architecture decisions and communicate them clearly across engineering and product teams
• Act as a technical authority, providing architectural direction and mentoring to engineers and technical leads
• Deeply understand our existing microservices platform and guide the integration of new features
• Identify, evaluate, and recommend technology choices, ensuring long-term extensibility and maintainability
• Partner with engineering, product, and delivery teams to translate high-level requirements into actionable technical designs
• Contribute to defining API contracts, data flows, and integration patterns
• Apply microservice and event-driven architectural patterns, leveraging technologies such as Kafka for asynchronous communication and decoupling
• Champion operational excellence, supporting observability, testing, deployment, and incident response practices
• Embed and advocate engineering best practices: scalable design, high availability, resilience, and continuous improvement

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in fintech or highly regulated environments
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)
• Exposure to compliance, risk, or secure data architectures
• Familiarity with modern DevOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code practices

Benefits

• Private Healthcare Plan
• Enhanced leave - 38 days inclusive of 8 UK Public Holidays
• Private Health Care including family cover
• Life Assurance – 5x salary
• Flexible working-work from home and/or in our London Office
• Employee Assistance Program
• Company Pension (Salary Sacrifice options available)
• Access to training and development
• Buy and Sell holiday scheme
• The opportunity for “work from anywhere/global mobility”