Solutions Architect - Remote - Octopus by RTG

We are looking for a Solution Architect to own the technical shape of complex, multi-service platform solutions from vision through to delivery.

This role sits between business intent and engineering execution. You will translate requirements into a coherent architecture, make and defend the decisions that constrain how the system is built, and stay engaged through implementation to ensure what ships matches what was designed. The ideal candidate is a hands-on architect — comfortable in a client workshop in the morning and in a design review with engineers in the afternoon — who thinks in trade-offs rather than absolutes.

• Own the end-to-end solution architecture for assigned platforms and workstreams, across application, data, integration, security and deployment concerns.
• Translate business and regulatory requirements into architectural decisions, and make the trade-offs explicit.
• Produce and maintain formal architecture deliverables: architecture vision, high-level design, integration designs, and decision records.
• Define service boundaries, API contracts, data ownership and event models across a distributed system.
• Design integration with external and third-party systems, and define the adapter and anti-corruption patterns that keep the core insulated from them.
• Define the non-functional posture — scalability, availability, performance, resilience, observability — and ensure the design actually meets it.