Solutions Architect

Solution Architect - HR / Corporate Systems /Back-Office Domain

London - 3 days a week onsite

£100k-£110k + car allowance + up to 30% bonus

We’re seeking a Corporate Functions Domain Solution Architect to join a FTSE 250 organisation undergoing a major technology transformation under a new CIO. This is a strategic role within a significant, multi-year IT and digital transformation to modernise the organisation’s back-office and corporate systems, enabling greater standardisation, control, insight, and scalability across its global estate.

Role Overview

The Corporate Functions Domain Solution Architect will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering technology solutions across the organisation’s back-office and corporate domains, including Finance, HR, Payroll, Procurement, Legal, and Corporate Services.

This role will focus on architecting scalable, standardised solutions that support a complex, global operating model - balancing global consistency with local regulatory, statutory, and operational requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect end-to-end solutions across corporate and back-office functions, including Finance, HR, Payroll, Procurement, Legal, and related enterprise services.
• Design solutions that support multi-country operations, regulatory compliance, financial controls, and workforce complexity.
• Own solution architecture designs for major corporate systems transformation initiatives, ensuring alignment to business strategy and operational needs.
• Define and maintain target and transitional architectures for corporate systems domains.
• Apply TOGAF principles and enterprise architecture standards to guide solution design and technology decisions.
• Work closely with Enterprise Architects to ensure corporate systems align with the broader enterprise architecture and technology roadmap.
• Establish architecture patterns, standards, and guardrails for corporate platforms and shared services systems.

Transformation & Delivery

• Support large-scale IT transformation programmes, including ERP modernisation, HR and payroll transformation, and procurement digitisation.
• Provide architectural governance throughout delivery, ensuring solutions meet quality, security, and scalability requirements.
• Support vendor and partner selection, RFP processes, and solution evaluations.

Required Experience & Skills

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect or Domain Architect within corporate or back-office systems environments.
• Strong experience architecting solutions across Finance, HR, Payroll, and/or Procurement domains.
• Experience working in large, complex, multi-country organisations.
• TOGAF or similar certification.
• Experience with large-scale ERP and corporate platforms (e.g. SAP S/4HANA, SAP SuccessFactors, Workday, Oracle, Coupa, Ariba, or similar).
• Experience operating within complex, global, multi-brand or multi-entity organisations.

To apply for this great opportunity, please apply with a copy of your latest CV.

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect or Domain Architect within corporate or back-office systems environments.
• Strong experience architecting solutions across Finance, HR, Payroll, and/or Procurement domains.
• Experience working in large, complex, multi-country organisations.
• TOGAF or similar certification.
• Experience with large-scale ERP and corporate platforms (e.g. SAP S/4HANA, SAP SuccessFactors, Workday, Oracle, Coupa, Ariba, or similar).
• Experience operating within complex, global, multi-brand or multi-entity organisations.