IT Solution Architect

A leading energy trading and biofuels organisation is seeking a Technical Solutions Architect to join its London team. You will provide technical oversight of the local IT landscape, coordinate closely with central Group IT and external partners, and support the delivery and evolution of secure, effective technology solutions.

You’ll work in a fast-moving trading environment with a strong focus on sustainability, innovation, and modernisation-helping enable business outcomes through pragmatic, well-governed architecture and delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain an end-to-end view of the local technology landscape: infrastructure, networks, applications, cloud services, integrations, data flows and third-party dependencies.
• Act as a technical interface with Group/central IT teams, ensuring local initiatives align with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity standards and strategy.
• Drive modernisation by identifying opportunities for simplification, automation, cloud adoption and improved integration.
• Translate business needs into clear technical requirements; contribute to assessment, design and implementation of solutions.
• Support evaluation and adoption of new applications, cloud services and AI-enabled solutions, considering feasibility, integration, security and operational impact.
• Support lifecycle activities (upgrades, migrations, rationalisation, decommissioning) to reduce legacy complexity and enable future capability.
• Coordinate technical delivery with internal stakeholders and external providers, ensuring clear ownership and effective governance.
• Support incident/problem resolution requiring cross-technology analysis (root cause, dependencies, longer-term fixes).
• Maintain technical documentation (architecture diagrams, solution documents, inventories, roadmaps).

Skills & Experience Required

• Degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering or similar technical discipline.
• Experience in infrastructure, technical architecture, solution architecture or a related role.
• Proven experience in complex IT environments, coordinating with central IT teams and external technology providers.
• Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure, networking, cloud technologies, applications and integrations.
• Experience supporting implementations, infrastructure changes, upgrades, migrations and decommissioning.
• Familiarity with Microsoft enterprise technologies, including Microsoft 365 and Azure.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting capability across multiple technology domains.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Pragmatic, hands-on approach to IT operations and solution delivery.