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Working closely with business and technology teams, you'll help turn complex challenges into scalable, practical solutions that deliver real value. From cloud-native applications and microservices to modern integration platforms and digital products, you'll help define how technology supports the organisation's long-term ambitions.\nAs a Principal Solution Architect, you'll provide technical leadership across major transformation initiatives, guiding solutions from early concept through to successful delivery. You'll work alongside talented engineers, product teams, and business stakeholders to design resilient, future-ready architectures, shape technology decisions, and drive best practices across the organisation.\nThis is an opportunity to combine strategic thinking with hands-on influence, helping to build modern platforms, improve how systems work together, and create technology foundations that support growth and innovation. If you're passionate about modern architecture, cloud technologies, distributed systems, and solving complex problems at scale, you'll find plenty of opportunities to make a meaningful impact here.\nWhat You'll Do\nLead the architecture and delivery of complex enterprise solutions, owning the end-to-end solution architecture from initial discovery and options assessment through to production deployment.\nDesign and evolve microservices-based architectures, including domain decomposition and service boundary definition.\nApply Domain Driven Design (DDD) principles to model business domains, define bounded contexts, and create scalable, maintainable service ecosystems.\nDesign robust integration solutions using both synchronous and asynchronous communication patterns.\nShape API-first architectures leveraging REST APIs, GraphQL, API gateways, messaging platforms, and event streaming technologies.\nDefine data ownership, persistence, and integration strategies across distributed systems and enterprise platforms.\nPartner closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, engineering teams, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into practical architectural solutions.\nGuide development teams through implementation, ensuring solutions remain aligned with architectural principles, quality standards, and business objectives.\nDrive adoption of cloud-native architecture patterns across applications, integrations, and digital platforms.Evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and engineering practices, including AI-assisted software development capabilities.\n\nDefine end-to-end solution architectures spanning applications, integrations, data, security, infrastructure, and operational requirements.\nEnsure solutions address non-functional requirements including security, resilience, scalability, performance, operability, and regulatory compliance.\nPlan and facilitate solution-design workshops with Product Owners, Business Analysts, business stakeholders, and technical teams to clarify requirements, evaluate options, resolve trade-offs, and build alignment on end-to-end solution architecture.\nNeed to Have - Your Essentials\nProven experience as a Solution Architect, or in a comparable architecture role, delivering complex solutions end-to-end from discovery and options analysis through to production implementation.\nExtensive experience architecting large-scale microservices-based solutions within complex enterprise environments.\nStrong expertise in Domain Driven Design (DDD), including bounded contexts, aggregates, domain modelling, and service decomposition.\nExpert-level knowledge of enterprise integration architecture, including both synchronous and asynchronous integration patterns.\nHands-on experience with modern integration technologies such as REST APIs, GraphQL, API gateways, messaging platforms, and event streaming solutions (e.g., Kafka, Azure Event Hubs, or equivalent).\nStrong data modelling skills with experience defining data ownership, persistence strategies, and integration approaches across distributed systems.\nSignificant software engineering background, including hands-on development experience in Java, .NET, or a comparable backend technology.\nExperience working across the full software delivery lifecycle, from design through implementation and production support.Strong understanding of modern cloud platforms, with experience on Azure preferred, although AWS or GCP experience will also be considered.\n\nKnowledge of cloud-native architecture patterns including containers, orchestration platforms, managed messaging services, and observability tooling.\nAbility to communicate effectively across audiences, from highly technical engineering teams to business stakeholders and product leaders.\nStrong stakeholder management skills with the ability to explain architectural decisions, trade-offs, and recommendations clearly and appropriately for different audiences.\nNice to Have\nExperience working with modern frontend frameworks such as Angular or React, enabling effective collaboration across full-stack engineering teams.\nExposure to highly distributed, event-driven, and real-time processing architectures.\nExperience with enterprise-scale cloud transformation, modernization, or platform engineering initiatives.\nPractical experience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or similar technologies.\nExperience within financial services, banking, or other highly regulated industries.\nArchitecture certifications such as TOGAF, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Solutions Architect, or equivalent.\nWhy You'll Love This Role\nBecause this role combines strategic architecture leadership with hands-on solution influence.\nYou'll have the opportunity to shape the design of modern enterprise platforms, drive architecture decisions that impact business-critical systems, and work on complex challenges involving microservices, cloud-native technologies, integration platforms, and distributed systems.\nYou'll collaborate with talented engineering teams, product leaders, and stakeholders across the organisation, helping translate ambitious business goals into scalable, resilient, and future-ready technology solutions.\nIf you're passionate about modern software architecture, Domain Driven Design, cloud-native platforms, and building technology foundations that enable long-term business success, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact at enterprise scale.\nWhat is it like to work at the EBRD? / About EBRD\nOur agile and innovative approach is what makes life at the EBRD a unique experience! You will be part of a pioneering and diverse international organisation, and use your talents to make a real difference to people's lives and help shape the future of the regions we invest in.\nAt EBRD, our Values - Inclusiveness, Innovation, Trust, and Responsibility - are at the heart of how we work. We bring these to life through our Workplace Behaviours: listening well and speaking up, collaborating smartly, acting decisively with full commitment, and simplifying to amplify our impact. These principles shape our culture and define our success. We seek individuals who not only share these values but are also committed to embedding them in their daily work, fostering a positive and high-performing environment.\nThe EBRD environment provides you with:\nVaried, stimulating and engaging work that gives you an opportunity to interact with a wide range of experts in the financial, political, public and private sectors across the regions we invest in. \nA working culture that embraces inclusion and celebrates diversity. Our workforce reflects a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, bringing fresh ideas, energy, and innovation and enhancing our ability to serve our clients, shareholders, and counterparties effectively.\nWe offer hybrid and flexible working arrangements and believe we operate at our best when collaborating 3 days a week in person (minimum) \nAn environment that places sustainability, equality and digital transformation at the heart of what we do. \nA workplace that prioritises employee wellbeing and provides a comprehensive suite of competitive benefits. \nDiversity is one of the Bank’s core values which are at the heart of everything it does. As such, the EBRD seeks to ensure that everyone is treated with respect and given equal opportunities and works in an inclusive environment. 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