Solutions Architect

We are seeking an experienced Senior Solution Architect to drive high-quality architectural design, governance, and technical leadership across complex enterprise initiatives. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in hybrid and on-premises environments, strong stakeholder management capabilities, and the ability to guide teams in delivering robust, secure, and scalable solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Architectural Delivery & Governance

• Produce, review, and ensure delivery of all architectural artefacts required under the established development methodology.
• Identify architectural, technical, and security risks, ensuring appropriate mitigation plans are defined, communicated, and executed in collaboration with relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure that architecture decisions, deviations, risks, and impacts are clearly communicated and agreed upon with all stakeholders.
• Provide design assurance to confirm that implemented solutions align with approved architectures, standards, and quality expectations.

Technical Leadership

• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to other solution architects.
• Drive alignment of the technology landscape with the enterprise target architecture, including identifying and planning for legacy system retirement.
• Support solution delivery teams by offering architectural expertise throughout the project lifecycle.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including developers, testers, project managers, operations, and senior leadership to ensure architectural clarity and alignment.
• Communicate complex architectural concepts and decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders using clear and effective techniques.

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Extensive experience defining, documenting, and architecting solutions across hybrid and on-premises cloud environments, including integration with legacy systems.
• Strong background providing architectural support to DevOps teams and working within Agile delivery environments.
• Proven experience in technical selection processes, including RFI/RFP preparation, vendor evaluation, and third-party product assurance.
• Experience leading architectural design authorities and working within enterprise architectural governance and portfolio management frameworks.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at all organisational levels—from executive leadership to technical teams.
• Broad knowledge of modern IT technologies, architectural patterns, and styles, including event-driven architecture, serverless, microservices, SOA, and layered architectures.
• Ability to clearly convey architectural decisions and rationale through documentation, presentations, and discussions.

Desirable

• Familiarity with the Open Agile Framework (Open.org) is beneficial but not mandatory.