Role: Solution
Architecture
Location: London
– 5 days onsite
Start Date:
July 2026
End Date: 31st December 2026
Daily Rate:
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This is an exciting opportunity to join Deloitte
Operations for an engagement with one of our clients.
The Role
As a Solution
Architect, you’ll be a key technical leader providing end-to-end architecture
development, consultancy, and assurance across projects, ensuring that
applications are well-designed and aligned with the business standards and
reference architecture. You will be working specifically in the Products
portfolio for Trading and Supply business. You will specifically work on a
project team implementing a global Energy Trade and Risk Management (ETRM)
solution on Azure to create a scalable, secure, and strategic landscape that
enables the transformation of the Trading capabilities.
Key
Responsibilities
1.
Architecture and Technical Leadership
· Provide strong leadership skills,
including fostering collaboration, driving consensus, and effectively
communicating complex technical concepts.
· Not only lead in your area of expertise
but also play a key role in shaping and transforming the role
itself—identifying opportunities, driving innovation, and delivering impact
that extends beyond the initial remit. As the organization grows, your role is
expected to evolve, offering continuous opportunities for development,
influence, and leadership.
· Serve as the primary contact for
architectural aspects of IT projects.
· Integrate business process, data,
application, technical, and information security dimensions into cohesive IT
solutions.
· Ensure solution architectures are
documented using standard templates and tooling complying with the
architectural standards.
· Guide detailed designers and business
analysts during the design phase.
· Review and formally approve detailed
solution designs.
· Support Lead Architect and participate
in Architecture Review Board sessions as required.
2. Reference
Model Stewardship
· Actively contribute to the
documentation, enhancement, and maintenance of Reference Models in BizzDesign
or any other standard tooling.
· Elevate project deliverables to
conceptual and logical architecture levels.
3. Technology
Foresight
· Monitor emerging IT technologies and
apply this insight to design future-ready solutions.
4. Standards
Alignment
· Stay informed of developments of IT
standards and services, ensuring they are incorporated into solution designs.
5. Community
Engagement
· Champion architectural excellence
within the organisation.
· Engage with stakeholders to address
architectural concerns and drive strategic improvements.
Experience
& Skills Required
What We Need
from you
Industry
Knowledge:
· Minimum of 10 years’ experience in
Trading IT
· Minimum of 10 years’ experience with
OpenLink Endur v14+
· Knowledge of the end-to-end Trading
Business from deal inception through to settlement
Technical
Architecture & Design:
· 10+ years in software and architecture
delivery.
· Own and drive technical architecture,
design, and standards for software products in Commodities Trading.
· Confidently lead architecture decisions
across portfolios, managing divergent opinions.
· Create pragmatic, implementable
technical designs balancing risk, complexity, cost, and value.
· TOGAF (or similar framework) experience
and Enterprise Architecture tooling.
Collaboration
& Communication:
· Collaborate with business and IT
stakeholders for strategic and day-to-day technical decisions.
· Strong communication and collaboration
skills with 5+ years' experience in trading environments.
· Listen to and interpret needs of
technical and business stakeholders, manage expectations, and facilitate
discussions.
· Be an active participant in the wider Tech Lead and engineering
communities.
Problem
Solving & Innovation:
· Diagnose problems and implement
innovative solutions fitting into the wider Trading picture.
· Manage dependencies, overcome
obstacles, and maximize value against constraints, managing trade-offs or
technical debt.
Technical
Skills and Mastery - Desirable Technologies & Programming Languages:
· Expert in one or more of the
programming languages (Node.js, .Net, .Net Core, Python etc) with Cloud Native
Platform Development (Azure/AWS)
· Expert in one or more of the front-end
development technologies (specifically React and Micro frontend).
· Expert in one or more of Data
Development (SQL Databases, No SQL, Cloud Datastores etc) technologies
· Expert in JVS and OpenComponents
· Exposure to SAP HANA, Salesforce, API
management, Multifactor authentication.
· Energy Trade and Risk Management
(ETRM):
· Hands-on experience implementing
OpenLink Endur, including All ‘Managers’, Domain Services, Operation Services,
TPM, APM, Grid Setup, Deal Modelling.
Azure
Platform & Cloud Native:
· Hands-on experience in architecting
applications into the Azure platform, including migrations/re-platforming of
legacy on-premises systems.
· Engineering and architecture experience
in designing and building containers, Microservices, Cloud Native applications,
and federated Data platforms (Data Mesh).
Data
Architecture, Data Management & Diverse Data Types:
· 3+ Years experience in Data
Architecture including Logical data models and designing solutions using data
platforms and medallion architecture.
· Strong knowledge of data management:
engineering, pipeline development, warehousing, storage, lifecycle management,
privacy, security.
· Experience with diverse data types: big
data, high velocity streaming, IoT, low latency event triggers, longitudinal
time series.
· Proficient in SQL and NoSQL databases.
Azure
Services & Integration:
· Significant experience with Azure
Functions, Web Apps, distributed/event-driven architecture (event hub, event
bus, Kafka), ELK.
· Intermediate to advanced exposure to
Azure Active Directory, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Storage,
Azure Kubernetes Service, CosmosDB, Azure SQL.
· Integration experience with
Confluent/Kafka, API Management, Logic Apps.
· CI/CD & DevOps: 5+ years in CI/CD
delivery using Git/GitHub, VSTS/Azure DevOps, Terraform, Ansible.
Agile &
Engineering Standards:
· Practical agile experience in both
start-up and enterprise environments.
· Lead the engineering community to
follow the Engineer Management standards, ensuring consistency and reuse.
· Understand and deliver core engineering
GPA objectives.
· Create a collaborative environment for
technical roles to drive clear decisions and consistency.
Documentation
& Coordination:
· Address Business Process, Data,
Application, Technical, and Information Security aspects of IT Solutions,
documenting in High-Level Design documents.
· Coordinate and develop information with
third parties (Data Architects, IRM, Support Operations teams, Business
stakeholders), internal and external.