Solutions Architect

Solution Architect | Swindon (Hybrid) | £65,000 - £75,000

Peaple Talent is partnering with a leading organisation undergoing significant investment across its technology landscape and digital capabilities. They’re looking for an experienced Solution Architect to help shape and deliver technology solutions that support the organisation’s wider strategy.

This is a broad architecture role where you’ll work closely with business stakeholders, BA teams, technical teams and external partners. You’ll be responsible for taking business problems and requirements through to pragmatic, scalable solutions, while balancing functionality, security, performance, cost and long-term sustainability.

You’ll also play an important role in architecture governance, producing solution designs, assessing different options and helping shape standards and best practice across the organisation.

What You'll Bring:

• Strong experience working as a Solution Architect across complex technology environments
• Good experience with public cloud, ideally Microsoft Azure
• Strong understanding of integration architecture, including APIs, messaging, Service Bus, batch processing and synchronous/asynchronous patterns
• Experience designing solutions using event-driven architecture, serverless functions and cloud storage
• Experience with TOGAF or a similar architecture methodology
• Experience with ArchiMate or structured architecture modelling
• Strong business analysis, requirements gathering and business process/capability modelling experience
• Experience leading projects from an architecture and technical perspective, including architecture governance and design assurance
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences
• Experience evaluating technology options and balancing cost, risk, performance, scalability and long-term support

Nice to Have:

• Microsoft Dynamics CRM / Business Central
• Microsoft Power Platform
• Microsoft Fabric
• Microsoft 365
• Experience developing enterprise data models
• Experience using Sparx Enterprise Architect
• Background working across large, complex or multi-site organisations
• Experience overseeing third-party technical resources or delivery partners
• A continuous improvement mindset, with a focus on simplifying processes and creating reusable architecture patterns