Solution Architect (Madrid)

Solution Architect

12 month project

3 days on site - Madrid

emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector. We power progress, solve challenges, and deliver real results through tailored high-end consulting services and solutions.

We have created a culture of openness and integrity by building genuine and strong relationships and partnerships, enabling us to be uncompromising in our dedication to delivering the optimal service for our clients. Our commitment is not just towards our clients — we aim to foster a positive and equitable working environment with our consultants and colleagues, which stems from our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.

We are seeking an experienced Solution Architect to lead high-level solution design for client-facing digital channels. This role is ideal for someone with strong functional knowledge of Markets & Trading, excellent stakeholder communication skills, and the ability to propose innovative, strategically aligned solutions across CIB initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

As a Solution Architect, you will:

• Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to understand functional requirements and propose effective solution options

• Support the design of client-facing digital channels, including portals and APIs

• Ensure solution alignment across CIB domains such as Markets & Trading, Payments, and Trade Finance

• Produce high-level designs (HLDs) and integration models

• Clearly communicate architectural decisions to global, cross-functional teams

• Ensure compliance with identity, access management, integration/API standards, and security protocols

• Support delivery teams while maintaining alignment with Enterprise Architecture and Client Centricity roadmaps

Key Requirements

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect within a Corporate & Investment Banking environment

• Strong functional knowledge of Markets & Trading

• Experience producing high-level solution designs (HLDs)

• Solid understanding of identity and access management standards

• Strong collaboration skills and experience working across multiple teams

• Fluency in English and Spanish (written and spoken)

• Architecture or CIB-related certifications

• Experience with client onboarding and KYC processes

Our People

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working. As your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle, from strategy to implementation. This will provide you with a broad base of experience from which to build an outstanding career.

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle.

We pride ourselves on;

• Providing our people with a supportive culture, rooted in our values and driven by our purpose.

• Promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, well-being, and learning and development.

• Providing increased agility and flexibility within our hybrid working model

• Investing in employees’ growth through ongoing training and development

• Autonomy to take ownership of projects, making decisions and demonstrating individual expertise

• Providing an transparent performance and career management experience.

Our consultants are integral to delivering successful consulting engagements, addressing our clients’ most pressing business challenges, and build lasting value in disciplines such as:

• Solve sophisticated, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and meticulous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little strategic direction

• Build, develop and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs

• Drive, enable and support the business, partnering with our leaders, clients, and consultants across our practices to take the best of emagine to our clients through opportunity identification/qualification, solution development/presentation

Interested?

At emagine, we are committed to building an international and diverse team by embracing our different backgrounds.

If you are up to the challenge and would like to find out more, get in touch with us immediately, our internal recruitment team is always keen to hear from dynamic individuals that are looking to further their career and explore their full potential. 

“emagine is an equal opportunity employer, and employment practices are based strictly on merit. It is the policy of the Company to give equal opportunity in employment regardless of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, religion or ethnic origin”