Solutions Architect
Job title: Solution Architect
Location: Luton, UK
Your responsibilities:
Provide architecture leadership for a product mission team, defining mission-level solution architecture and creating a clear architecture vision for product teams to align with. Shape the end-to-end solution across multiple product teams, platforms and technology domains, ensuring consistency and alignment. Establish solution guardrails, principles, reference architectures and patterns, identifying opportunities for reuse and optimisation, promoting architecture best practices. Partner with Product Leads, Tech Leads and Delivery Leads to ensure cohesive solution design and delivery. Align solutions with long-term enterprise strategy, architecture principles and standards. Identify and resolve cross-team solution dependencies and integration risks early. Communicate architecture and solution decisions clearly to both technical and business stakeholders. Coach teams on architectural thinking, reusable patterns and design approaches. Defining & owning end-to-end solution architecture Define the mission level architecture vision, scope and evolution roadmap, ensuring the solution meets mission outcomes, customer needs, and business objectives. Design cross-team integrations, shared components, and data flows, identifying and resolving solution risks, dependencies, and architectural gaps early. Provide clear solution architecture direction to Tech Leads, Product Leads, and Delivery Leads. Communicate solution decisions, trade-offs, and risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Essential skills/knowledge/experience:
Lead Solution Architect who can handle large programs with good stakeholder management skills With at least 6 to 8 years’ experience in solution architecture space Strong background in solution architecture or architecture leadership in large-scale operational or mission-critical solutions/Transformation programs Demonstrable experience in leading end-to-end solutions spanning multiple teams or domains, ensuring that they meet business outcomes. Proven ability to work in agile, product-based or mission-led organisations product way of working Strong understanding of modern architecture (cloud native – AWS preferred, microservices, APIs, events, canonical data models). Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills. Ability to influence architecture on a scale, from engineers to business leaders, by explaining technical solutions in clear, business-relevant terms. Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills, able to assess trade-offs between time, cost and technical debts. Good understanding of strategic and emerging technology trends, and the practical application to evolving business models. Experience in coaching and developing technical teams on architecture thinking.
Desirable skills/knowledge/experience:
Design certification – TOGAF Familiarity with airline or transport operations systems (crew, flight planning, disruption, scheduling) is highly desirable. Strong command in transforming business requirements into IT solutions