Solution Architect

Solutions Architect - Backend Platforms - Java - Microservices - Hybrid (London) - 6 month contract - £700/day Inside IR35

About the Roles

We're partnering with a major entertainment organisation to find aSolutions Architect to join a verticalized engineering and architecture pillar. You'll be working at the heart of large-scale Back End platforms that power products used by millions of customers across the UK and beyond.

What You'll Be Doing

• Designing and architecting scalable, distributed Back End solutions across API and event-based services at very large scale
• Working hands-on with Kafka and Pub/Sub event-driven architectures
• Leading on performance, resiliency, and scalability
• Bridging product requirements and engineering realities
• Contributing to Big Data pipelines and data-at-scale architecture decisions
• Driving personalisation platform development, ensuring Real Time, customer-centric experiences
• Working with CMS platforms and ensuring content architecture aligns with engineering best practice
• Championing microservices patterns and supporting teams in decomposing complex systems
• Integrating ML and LLM capabilities into product contexts

What We're Looking For

• A technically hands-on Back End architect
• 5 years in an architecture role, having come through a hands-on engineering or analyst background
• Deep expertise in API-based and event-driven architectures (Kafka, Pub/Sub) at high volume and scale
• Laser focus on performance, resiliency, and scalability
• Strong JVM-based stack experience
• AWS depth is essential; GCP exposure is a useful bonus
• Experience with personalisation engines and/or CMS platforms at scale
• Strong knowledge of Big Data technologies (eg Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, or similar)

Interested? Get in touch to find out more - happy to share further details confidentially.