Solutions Architect - 6 month contract

• Define and evaluate architecture options for finance systems and integrations, and present recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Support the definition of a cohesive data model for financial systems while maintaining a global view of impact on other tech systems.
• Assess existing systems and propose solutions to evolve finance technology to keep up with a rapidly growing scale-up business.
• Collaborate with internal and external development teams during solution design to ensure technical solutions are fit for purpose.

This role helps Octopus Energy scale its finance operations efficiently, enabling the company to focus on innovation and sustainability in the energy sector, ultimately contributing to a greener future.

• Proven experience designing finance technology and integration architectures in fast-growing, agile organisations.
• Strong experience with complex systems integration projects and delivering system migrations or transformations while maintaining business continuity.
• Strong understanding of integration technologies, REST APIs, modern application and data architecture, and identity provisioning technologies (OAuth, OIDC, SAML, SCIM).
• Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills, with ability to produce high-quality technical documentation.

Competitive salary (discussed during recruitment), unique culture with autonomy and amazing co-owners, recently named UK's top company to work for, ranked in Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024, and various perks (see Octopus Employee Benefits hub).

Octopus Energy is a multi-billion turnover international group participating in retail utilities, utilities management, generation, EV leasing, and software sales, committed to innovation, sustainability, and customer satisfaction.