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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Solution Architect - **Company:** N Consulting Ltd - **Location:** Bournemouth, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £69,641.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Microsoft Windows, Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Architectural Patterns, Confluence, JIRA, Microsoft Azure, Oracle WebLogic Server, Cyber Security, Databases, Continuous Integration, Linux, DevOps, Middleware, Hyper-V, WildFly (JBoss AS), Scrum Methodology, RabbitMQ, Requirements Traceability, Service-Oriented Architecture, Large Language Models, Boomi, Archimate, Togaf, Documentation System, Information Technology, Modeling and Simulation, Integration Frameworks, Apache Kafka, Serverless Computing, Enterprise Service Bus, Mulesoft, Vmware, Microservices - **Published:** July 22, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5809361723 ## About the Role Your skills and experience include: * Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to interact at all business levels - from the CEO and C-suite through to technical SMEs, developers, testers, and project managers * Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to assess the audience and pitch / influence appropriately * Working across enterprise technologies, including prior SME roles across infrastructure, cloud, and application domains * Defining, documenting, and architecting solutions across hybrid, on-premise, and public cloud estates, potentially requiring integration with legacy technologies for large projects and programmes * Supporting and designing mission-critical infrastructure solutions across a wide variety of technologies * IT security and risk management within an architecture role * Experience working within architectural design authorities and governance forums * Technical selection and RFI/RFP processes, including supplier assurance of third-party products and contractual due diligence including drafting statements of requirements for third parties or commenting on vendor statements of work (SoW) * Working in a highly regulated environment (e.g. financial services) * Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and waterfall methodologies along with associated toolsets (such as Jira) * Use of documentation tools such as Atlassian Confluence along with diagramming or architectural modelling tools and languages (draw.io, Sparx, ADOIT, ArchiMate, Mermaid, C4) * Broad knowledge of IT technologies and architectural styles and patterns (e.g. event-driven, serverless, microservices, SOA, layered architectures) * Supporting implementation and solution design for large public cloud implementations, preferably both AWS and Azure * Supporting implementation and technical design across core technologies (Windows, Linux, VMware, Hyper-V, web, database, security gateways, LAN/WAN networking) * Designing solutions involving middleware and integration including JBoss / WebLogic, enterprise service bus / message queueing / integration platforms (iPaaS) such as RabbitMQ, MuleSoft, Boomi, Kafka * Designing (including requirements traceability) secure, high performing, and highly available technology solutions * Knowledge of continuous integration and deployment processes, methods, and tools * Providing architectural support and assurance to DevOps teams, with application of agile practices * Ability to work with cutting-edge AI LLM technologies, producing work in conjunction with models such as Anthropic Claude, whilst experimenting and exploring different methods of co-working with AI, * Degree or HND in information technology, or equivalent experience * Relevant technical and business qualifications (e.g. Microsoft or AWS certifications, TOGAF, ITIL) * Evidence of your commitment to continuous learning. ## Description You will: * Produce proposals and justify the value of technology strategies to senior business audiences * Drive alignment of the technology landscape with the enterprise target picture, including system retirement * Ensure that architecture, divergences, and risks are clearly communicated and agreed by all stakeholders * Convey architecture decisions through a variety of communication techniques to both technical and non-technical stakeholders * Lead architectural design authorities for projects, and work within enterprise architectural governance and enterprise portfolio management frameworks * Translate business requirements into technology, service, and security deliverables, identifying risks and proposing appropriate mitigations * Identify all areas of architectural, technical, and security risk, and ensure these are managed with the cooperation of appropriate stakeholders * Produce (or ensure production of) all architectural deliverables under the development methodology, including solution designs, architecture patterns, technical infrastructure designs and supporting documentation * Provide design assurance for solution architecture to ensure solutions are implemented as designed, to the correct standards and quality * Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other solution architects within the team * Self-manage day-to-day architecture priorities and delivery workload ## Related Videos - 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