Solution Architect

Solution Architect

Location: Remote (98% remote with very occasional travel to London or Manchester)
Rate: £650 per day Inside IR35
Duration: Contract until 30th June 2027

YOU MUST HOLD SC CLEARENCE WITH THE HOME OFFICE & HAVE NPPV3 CLEARANCE

We are seeking an experienced Solution Architect to join a major organisational transformation programme focused on aligning multiple organisations, business units, and user communities to a unified Target Operating Model (TOM).
This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping end-to-end solution designs that will support large-scale business transformation, service integration, platform onboarding, and operational change. Working across business, technology, service management, and transformation teams, you will be responsible for delivering practical, scalable, and sustainable solutions that align with both strategic business objectives and enterprise architecture standards.
Key ResponsibilitiesSolution Design & Architecture

• Lead solution design activities across the transformation programme.
• Develop end-to-end solution designs supporting the implementation of the Target Operating Model.
• Design solutions spanning people, processes, technology, data, services and governance.
• Ensure solutions promote standardisation, scalability, supportability and long-term sustainability.
• Maintain clear traceability between business requirements and solution outcomes.

Organisational Transformation

• Support the onboarding and integration of multiple organisations and user communities onto common platforms and services.
• Assess current-state operating models, business processes and technology landscapes.
• Identify impacts, dependencies, risks and opportunities associated with organisational transition.
• Contribute to transition planning and implementation activities.
• Support business readiness and adoption initiatives throughout the programme lifecycle.

Business & Technical Analysis

• Collaborate with Business Analysts, Architects, Service Integration teams and key stakeholders to gather and refine requirements.
• Facilitate workshops to capture business, operational and technical needs.
• Produce and maintain functional and non-functional requirements documentation.
• Analyse existing processes and identify opportunities for simplification and harmonisation.
• Ensure solution designs remain aligned to transformation objectives and desired business outcomes.

Platform & Service Integration

• Define how applications, platforms, services and operational processes integrate within the future-state environment.
• Ensure consistency of design across business, technology and service management domains.
• Support the integration of users and services into common governance and support frameworks.
• Work closely with Service Integration, Infrastructure, Application and Security teams to deliver cohesive solutions.
• Design solutions with operational supportability and service management considerations in mind.

Governance & Assurance

• Produce high-quality solution documentation, design artefacts and supporting materials.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise architecture standards, design principles and policies.
• Support design reviews, governance processes and assurance activities.
• Maintain solution integrity from design through to implementation.

Stakeholder Management

• Engage with programme leaders, operational teams, technical specialists and business stakeholders.
• Build strong relationships across multiple transformation workstreams.
• Present design options, recommendations and analysis to support informed decision-making.
• Facilitate alignment between programme objectives and stakeholder expectations.

Risk & Dependency Management

• Identify design risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies.
• Assess the impact of solution decisions on business operations, users, platforms and services.
• Support mitigation planning and issue resolution activities.
• Ensure cross-workstream dependencies are understood, managed and communicated effectively.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Significant experience in Solution Architecture, Solution Design, Systems Analysis or Technical Design roles.
• Proven track record supporting large-scale organisational transformation programmes.
• Strong ability to translate complex business requirements into practical end-to-end solutions.
• Experience designing solutions across people, process, technology and service management domains.
• Excellent understanding of business process design and operating model transformation.
• Experience working with diverse stakeholder groups within complex enterprise environments.
• Knowledge of systems integration, platform onboarding and service adoption activities.
• Ability to balance strategic objectives with practical delivery requirements.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and documentation skills.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement and workshop facilitation experience.

Desirable Experience

• Experience working within complex enterprise-scale transformation programmes.
• Knowledge of service management frameworks and governance models.
• Experience supporting multi-organisation integration or merger-related transformation initiatives.

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