Solutions Architect

The Solution Architect role sits within an Enterprise Architecture (EA) function and plays a key role in shaping and delivering technology solutions across the organisation.

The Team

The Enterprise Architecture team is responsible for defining technology strategy and roadmaps, maintaining enterprise landscapes, and producing solution architectures and technical designs for the organisation’s core systems.

The team’s purpose is to enable a forward‐looking, business‐aligned enterprise architecture that promotes innovation, ensures strategic alignment, and delivers scalable and sustainable value through technology. Acting as a bridge between business vision and technical execution, the team helps build a resilient, data‐driven, and adaptable digital environment. The Solution Architect is central to achieving this mission.

The EA team has oversight across a broad technology estate, covering a mix of cloud and on‐premise platforms, enterprise applications, integration technologies, and data services. The team collaborates closely with delivery teams and third‐party partners to ensure the organisation can deliver high‐quality services efficiently and effectively.

Key Responsibilities

• Designing end‐to‐end technology solutions that meet business requirements efficiently while aligning to enterprise strategy, architectural principles, standards, patterns, and roadmaps
• Ensuring proposed solutions are strategically aligned, fit for purpose, and fit for use
• Leading, guiding, mentoring, and supporting Technical Leads across the technology function, providing clear architectural guardrails while enabling autonomy in solution delivery
• Producing solution architecture artefacts at the appropriate level of detail to demonstrate how requirements are met and how solutions should be engineered
• Supporting Technical Leads in the creation of technical specifications, including system architectures, interface designs, data flows, and integration points
• Creating, maintaining, and promoting architectural artefacts such as standards, principles, patterns, templates, and reference materials

About You

• Strong influencing, collaboration, and presentation skills, with the ability to work effectively across functions and engage stakeholders at all levels, from senior executives to delivery teams
• Proven experience architecting and supporting the delivery of complex technology solutions, including an understanding of high‐volume, transactional systems
• Excellent analytical and problem‐solving abilities, with the capability to balance technical considerations against business needs
• Experience with architectural ways of working, such as abstraction across conceptual, logical, and physical layers; architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF or equivalent); patterns, principles, tooling, and stakeholder management
• Experience working within architecture governance frameworks and a strong understanding of a wide range of technologies, including enterprise platforms, cloud services, databases, APIs, and web services