Lead Solutions Architect

Lead Solutions Architect (Edinburgh Hybrid)

About the role

Head Resourcing are pleased to be working with a highly regarded company in Edinburgh who are looking for an experienced Lead Solution Architect to define and deliver modern, scalable architectures built on microservices and event-driven patterns. You’ll guide architecture decisions for a platform or innovation-focused environment, enabling engineering teams to deliver quickly and safely. Working closely with Product Owners, delivery teams, and enterprise-level architecture colleagues, you’ll ensure solutions are maintainable, resilient, and aligned to longer-term technology direction.

Key responsibilities:

• Define target architectures and roadmaps that support strategic outcomes, with a strong emphasis on microservices and event-based designs.
• Lead solution design for complex initiatives, translating business needs into clear, pragmatic technical approaches.
• Partner with Product Owners and engineering teams to remove friction, accelerate delivery, and ensure architectural alignment.
• Establish and promote engineering patterns, standards, and reference designs that improve consistency and quality.
• Ensure solutions meet expectations for governance, quality, risk management, and controlled change.
• Mentor and coach engineers and architects, building strong technical communities and raising the bar on engineering practice.
• Contribute to long-term technology strategy by developing methods and frameworks that optimise delivery, cost, and platform performance.

Key skills and experience:

• Proven experience in architecture and engineering, designing cloud-native and microservices-based solutions.
• Strong hands-on background (e.g., software engineering) with a solid grasp of build, deployment, and modern delivery practices.
• Experience designing event-driven systems and integration approaches (e.g., messaging/streaming patterns).
• Track record of modernising legacy or monolithic applications into more modular, service-oriented ecosystems.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills—able to “tell the story” of an architecture and bring stakeholders with you.
• Practical experience defining and rolling out standards, patterns, and engineering best practices across teams.
• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills; able to energise and align cross-functional groups.

Hybrid:

2 days per week onsite in Edinburgh

Salary:

Up to £109k depending on experience + benefits

If this sounds like you we would like to hear from you!