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# Senior Solution Architect

- **Company:** Sanderson Recruitment Plc
- **Location:** Guildford, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £100,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Architectural Patterns, Microsoft Azure, Middleware, Microsoft Software, IT Architecture, Togaf, Event Driven Architecture, Atlassian Tools, Microservices
- **Published:** August 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/senior-solution-architect/sanderson-recruitment-job107789236

## About the Role

* Extensive experience working as a Solution Architect within complex enterprise environments
 * Strong infrastructure architecture experience across on-premise, hybrid and public cloud environments
 * Experience designing solutions within AWS and/or Azure
 * Broad technical knowledge across infrastructure, networking, security, middleware and integration technologies
 * Experience with architecture governance, design authorities and technical assurance
 * Strong understanding of security, risk management and high-availability solution design
 * Knowledge of microservices, event-driven architecture and modern architectural patterns
 * Experience supporting Agile delivery environments using tools such as Jira and Confluence
 * Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels
 * Experience working within Financial Services or another highly regulated environment
 * TOGAF, AWS, Microsoft or similar architecture certifications are desirable

## Description

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Solution Architect to join a high-performing architecture team, where you'll play a key role in designing and delivering enterprise-wide technology solutions. You'll work closely with senior business stakeholders, technical teams and enterprise architects to shape the future technology landscape while ensuring solutions are secure, scalable and aligned with strategic business objectives.

What you'll be doing

 * Design and deliver end-to-end solution architecture across complex technology programmes
 * Produce solution designs, architecture patterns and technical documentation
 * Translate business requirements into secure, scalable technology solutions
 * Lead architecture governance and design authority sessions
 * Identify and manage architectural, technical and security risks
 * Provide architectural assurance throughout project delivery
 * Drive alignment with enterprise architecture and technology strategy
 * Research emerging technologies and build business cases for new solutions
 * Mentor and provide technical leadership to other Solution Architects
 * Work closely with business and technical stakeholders across the organisation


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