Solutions Architect

Hybrid - London

Our client, an international professional services organisation, is undergoing a significant technology transformation and is investing heavily in its Architecture capability. As part of this growth, they are looking to appoint aSenior Solution Architect to help shape the future of their technology landscape.

This is a rare opportunity to join an organisation at a relatively early stage in its architecture maturity, where you’ll play a key role in defining standards, influencing technical direction, mentoring others and helping establish architectural best practice across the business.

Alongside delivering complex enterprise solutions, you’ll also contribute to the organisation’s AI foundations, helping ensure the technology estate is ready to support future AI capabilities and innovation.

The Role

Reporting into the Head of Architecture, you’ll work across strategic transformation programmes, partnering with business leaders, engineering teams and fellow architects to design scalable, secure and resilient technology solutions.

This role combines hands-on solution architecture with the opportunity to influence the wider architecture function, helping to build processes, governance and standards as the capability continues to mature.

Key Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end solution architectures that align with business and technology strategy.
• Translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Produce and govern High Level Designs (HLDs), Low Level Designs (LLDs) and architectural decision records.
• Design enterprise integration solutions, APIs and messaging patterns across a complex technology estate.
• Define non-functional requirements including security, resilience, scalability and performance.
• Evaluate technology options and provide build versus buy recommendations.
• Lead proof of concepts and technical evaluations for emerging technologies.
• Help establish architecture standards, governance processes and best practices across the organisation.
• Work closely with engineering, infrastructure, security and data teams to ensure successful delivery.
• Mentor Solution Architects, Technical Leads and engineering teams, promoting strong architectural principles and consistent design practices.
• Support the development of the organisation’s AI foundations, ensuring solutions are designed with future AI capabilities and intelligent automation in mind.

About You

You’ll be an experienced Solution Architect who enjoys balancing strategic thinking with practical delivery and is motivated by the opportunity to help shape an evolving architecture function.

You’ll likely have experience in:

• Helping build or mature an architecture capability within an organisation.
• Defining architecture standards, governance and design principles.
• Mentoring architects, technical leads or engineering teams.
• Designing enterprise integration solutions and API-led architectures.
• Microsoft Azure, including services such as App Services, Functions, API Management and Service Bus.
• Enterprise application integration and cloud-native solution design.
• Security architecture, resilience and non-functional requirements.
• DevOps, CI/CD and modern software delivery practices.
• Working within enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF.
• Collaborating with senior business stakeholders and influencing technical direction.

Experience supporting AI initiatives, modern data platforms or preparing enterprise environments for AI adoption would be highly advantageous.

Desirable Qualifications

• Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert

You’ll be an experienced Solution Architect who enjoys balancing strategic thinking with practical delivery and is motivated by the opportunity to help shape an evolving architecture function.

You’ll likely have experience in:

• Helping build or mature an architecture capability within an organisation.
• Defining architecture standards, governance and design principles.
• Mentoring architects, technical leads or engineering teams.
• Designing enterprise integration solutions and API-led architectures.
• Microsoft Azure, including services such as App Services, Functions, API Management and Service Bus.
• Enterprise application integration and cloud-native solution design.
• Security architecture, resilience and non-functional requirements.
• DevOps, CI/CD and modern software delivery practices.
• Working within enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF.
• Collaborating with senior business stakeholders and influencing technical direction., * Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert