Lead Solution Architect

• Experienced Architect with extensive experience in at least one of the following architecture domains: business, enterprise, solution, infrastructure, data, security, platform, or service.

• Please note that candidates with an engineering background will not be considered for this Solution Architect role, as this position requires an Architecture skill set and experience.

• Partnering with Heads of Product Portfolios and Product Managers to support roadmap development and provide early triage.
• Providing architecture support, coaching, and solution assurance across Technology's product portfolios.
• Addressing key design decisions, balancing risks, benefits, and outcomes for complex technical problems.
• Collaborating with Lead Engineers and other technology teams to ensure the documented current state is maintained for change assessment and operational support.
• Communicating and coordinating architecture development and technical change across portfolios and products (including those delivered by our partners).
• Contributing to and building an active Architecture community across capabilities and partners.
• Providing in-depth expertise within at least one specialised domain of architecture, from: business, enterprise, solution, infrastructure, data, security, platform, or service.

Leadership & Drive for Impact:

• Building credible stakeholder relationships across the charity ensuring to value ideas, drive momentum, and challenge when required.
• Balancing short-term needs with long-term strategic goals
• Translating complex information and concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Driving the direction and output on day-to-day workload and priorities while navigating ambiguity and making clear and timely decisions in changing situations
• Mentor and coach colleagues, fostering a culture of continuous learning and leading through others.

Resource Management:

• Reducing costs by proactively challenging to enable the optimal cost of resource ownership and delivered architecture.
• Building inclusive environments and working with third parties.

This is your chance to make a real difference while advancing your career in a supportive environment. If you are an experienced Solution Architect with in-depth knowledge in one of the above architecture domains who wants to leverage technology to accelerate change in a purpose-driven environment, we'd love for you to join our mission., * Experienced Architect with extensive experience in at least one of the following architecture domains: business, enterprise, solution, infrastructure, data, security, platform, or service.

• Please note that candidates with an engineering background will not be considered for this Solution Architect role, as this position requires an Architecture skill set and experience.

• Has delivered large-scale migrations and implemented new technologies within an integrated architecture in large, complex organisations.
• Solid understanding of modern software and platform architecture approaches (e.g., microservices and cloud etc).
• Experience delivering architecture through Agile Product teams.
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g, (TOGAF, Zachman etc), industry-wide best practices, and emerging technologies.
• Modelling and documenting experience with the ability to create models and visualisations to enable others to understand the architecture.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do.

Bold: Act with ambition, courage and determination

Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism, We're looking for people who can believe in and embody these organisation values and can use them to drive forward progress against our mission to beat cancer.

At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer. We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That's why we're looking for someone talented, someone who wants to develop their skills, someone like you. Cancer Research UK has an ambitious Technology strategy and modern Tech Stack with a complex hybrid (on-premise & multi-cloud) infrastructure underpinning an extensive technical estate that underpins the charity's ability to both deliver a range of change initiatives and programmes and support our vision and strategy. Our Architecture team is at the forefront of technological innovation in the charity sector and plays an essential role in ensuring our technical architecture supports the charity's diverse needs and ambitions across a range of products and services used by 4,000+ staff, 600+ shops, and thousands of supporters who raised £463m towards our life-saving research in 2023/24. As our Lead Solution Architect, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the technological future of Cancer Research UK by collaborating closely with our product portfolios, providing technical leadership, and defining end-to-end solutions that enable our lifesaving work. Based on your experience and background, you will be the subject matter expert within a specific specialism of architecture (such as business, enterprise, solution, infrastructure, data, security, platform, service, etc). We can offer learning and development opportunities to broaden your knowledge and impact by rotating across a range of domains.