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This is both a significant milestone for us and a tremendous opportunity for you.\nAcuity Analytics is a business with a strong global reputation, an impressive client base, and ambitious growth plans. We deliver deep insights and domain-led digital transformation to high-growth and heavily regulated organisations. To our customers, we bring a partnership that provides the talent, technology, and capability to enhance performance and operational efficiency.\nAs part of our continued growth, we are looking for a Solutions Architect to define enterprise-grade application solution architecture for large-scale legacy modernization initiatives within a Banking & Capital Markets environment.\nAbout the Role\nYou will be responsible for assessing complex existing application and integration landscapes, particularly Microsoft technology-based estates, identifying modernization opportunities, and designing scalable, resilient, secure, maintainable and cloud-agnostic target solutions aligned to business capabilities and enterprise architecture standards.\nYou will bring strong functional understanding and technical depth to translate business workflows, operating processes, integration dependencies, data flows, control points, reporting requirements and non-functional needs into practical modernization blueprints. The role involves defining migration-ready architecture patterns across .NET, C#, Microsoft SQL Server, Azure and related Microsoft-based technologies, evaluating technology options, guiding engineering teams, and ensuring solutions address scalability, availability, disaster recovery, RPO/RTO, security, auditability, observability, operational resilience and long-term supportability.\nSkills and Experience Required\nCore Skills (must-have):\nEnterprise Solution Architecture\nApplication Legacy Modernization\nCloud-Agnostic Architecture\nMicroservices\nKafka / Event-Driven Architecture\nKubernetes\nAPI & Integration Modernization\nHA/DR design\nDevSecOps / GitOps\nNice to Have:\nFinancial Services / Capital Markets domain experience\nDORA / operational resilience awareness\nKey Competencies:\nStrong enterprise solution architecture experience in large-scale legacy modernization, application transformation, distributed systems, financial services platforms or high-volume transaction processing environments.\nAbility to assess legacy estates including monolithic applications, tightly coupled integrations, shared databases, batch workflows, reporting platforms, operational bottlenecks and technology obsolescence risks.\nAbility to understand business capabilities, functional workflows, operating models, reporting needs, controls, data dependencies and user journeys, and translate them into executable modernization solutions.\nDeep understanding of microservices, domain-driven design, API design, database-per-service, event-driven architecture, asynchronous messaging and enterprise integration design patterns.\nHands-on knowledge of Kafka or equivalent event streaming platforms, IBM MQ, REST, gRPC, FIX, SFTP, schema registry, message transformation, replayability, retry, exception handling and reconciliation patterns.\nStrong experience with Kubernetes, Docker, container orchestration, cloud-native deployment, CI/CD, GitOps, Terraform, secrets management and DevSecOps engineering practices.\nGood working knowledge of Azure and/or GCP cloud services, cloud landing zones, networking, identity, security, observability, resilience and workload deployment patterns.\nHands-on exposure to Azure architecture and Microsoft-based modernization patterns, including App Services, AKS, Azure SQL or SQL Server modernization, Entra ID, Key Vault, Azure Monitor and secure enterprise deployment practices.\nKnowledge of cloud-agnostic architecture principles, multi-cloud deployment considerations, workload portability, exit strategy, high availability, disaster recovery, RPO/RTO definition and cross-environment resilience patterns.\nWorking knowledge of enterprise data platform concepts such as batch and streaming data flows, data quality, metadata, lineage, governance and regulatory data controls will be an advantage.\nStrong understanding of Microsoft application landscapes including .NET, C#, WPF, Microsoft SQL Server, stored procedures, SSIS/SSRS awareness, Azure services, PostgreSQL, Redis, relational modelling, reporting platforms and approaches for modernizing legacy enterprise applications.\nExperience defining migration approaches such as strangler pattern, phased cutover, parallel run, dual operation, output reconciliation, rollback design, hyper-care and legacy decommissioning.\nAbility to evaluate trade-offs across business value, functional fit, technology choices, portability, performance, resilience, security, operational complexity, cost and regulatory or audit expectations.\nExperience defining non-functional requirements, performance baselines, availability models, disaster recovery approaches, observability KPIs, operational runbooks and support models.\nAbility to communicate effectively with business stakeholders, product owners, operations users, engineering teams, senior stakeholders and client technology teams.\nFinancial services, capital markets, trade lifecycle, risk, regulatory reporting, data warehouse modernization or operational resilience exposure will be an advantage.\nCertifications (Preferred):\nMicrosoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert\nGoogle Cloud Professional Cloud Architect\nTOGAF® Enterprise Architecture Practitioner\nWhat You Will Do\nLead enterprise solution architecture for legacy modernization initiatives covering business capabilities, application architecture, integration, data, cloud, security, DevSecOps, observability and operational supportability.\nAssess existing application portfolios, monolithic platforms, shared databases, batch processing flows, integration dependencies, reporting workloads and operational constraints to define modernization priorities and solution options.\nUnderstand business processes, user journeys, data flows, upstream/downstream dependencies, reporting needs, control requirements and operational pain points to shape fit-for-purpose enterprise solution designs.\nTranslate functional and non-functional requirements into 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