Starling Bank

Senior Solution Architect – Engine

Starling Bank

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Dubai • United Arab Emirates

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Cloud

About the role

  • At Engine by Starling, we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses, on our technology.
  • As a Solution Architect (SA) you will be a key senior technical point of contact for current and prospective clients, using your understanding of the Engine technology and architecture to explain the Engine product, uncover client requirements and support the design of client solutions.
  • You will be involved in both the sales and delivery phases of a project as well as ongoing client success, collaborating with teams across Engine in Technology, Delivery, Product, Client Success and Business Development.
  • Supporting these activities on client sites means the role will require travel around Middle East, and occasional further travel.
  • This role blends deep technical expertise with strong communication and collaboration skills. You'll become an Engine expert, understanding its architecture, technology, and functionality, allowing you to effectively communicate its capabilities and value to both technical and non-technical audiences at a senior level.
  • You’ll lead on technical proposals during Engine Discovery phases with prospective clients, building relationships with a variety of senior stakeholders within clients and SI partners, from C-level to Heads of function.
  • You will be involved in supporting advanced sales opportunities and Engine implementation programmes. You will lead deep-dive discoveries with prospective clients and shape the required programme of work with the help of our Product and Engineering teams. Your contributions will also extend to shaping Engine's product roadmap and supporting sales efforts through technical demos and client workshops. You’ll help clients maximise Engine’s current and future capabilities to solve their requirements and meticulously document scope and roadmap decisions to guide subsequent delivery waves, bringing in expertise from our Product Owners and engineering teams where required.
  • As a programme moves into an implementation phase you'll act as a trusted advisor to clients guiding them on integration, best practices, and platform workflows. You’ll work with our SI partners and lead other Engine architects to triage and own client technical questions end-to-end, either answering directly or signposting to appropriate Engine Product Owners and Engineering Leads.

Requirements

  • **Must Have**
  • - Experience relating to retail or business banking, core banking, card processing or payments.
  • - Experience of delivery and implementation of core banking or large-scale digital transformation programmes, application migration and solution integration.
  • - Experience of end-to-end software engineering / solution architecture across the software delivery lifecycle.
  • - Experience of cloud infrastructure and large-scale cloud applications.
  • - Experience in a consultancy or other client-facing environment.
  • **Nice to Have**
  • - Commercial acumen with experience of building business cases
  • - Experience in a SaaS organisation in a Client Solutions or Client Engineering role
  • - Knowledge of financial regulations around the world
  • **About You: ****
  • - You have strong client-facing skills and the ability to engage a variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders up to C-level.
  • - You’re able to operate in both a sales context and delivery context, proposing solutions while also understanding any challenges with actually delivering their features and integrations
  • - You are collaborative and self motivated
  • - You have a focus on delivery and getting things done for a client
  • - You’re comfortable working in a varied role, collaboratively in a team, with a flat structure
  • - You’re comfortable travelling to our London office (initial upskilling will require a period of time working with our Engineers & Product team in London)
  • - You’re comfortable travelling internationally
Benefits
  • **About Us**
  • You may be put off applying for a role because you don't tick every box. Forget that! While we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we're always open to discussion. So, if you're excited about working with us, but aren’t sure if you're 100% there yet, get in touch anyway. We’re on a mission to radically reshape banking – and that starts with our brilliant team. Whatever came before, we’re proud to bring together people of all backgrounds and experiences who love working together to solve problems.
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Soft Skills
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