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# Solution Architect

- **Company:** Experis
- **Location:** London, UK (Remote available)
- **Salary:** £135,200.0 - £155,480.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Technical Debt
- **Published:** October 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/apply/ats-redirect/?id=3001065079-2

## About the Role

* Significant Architecture experience
 * Government/Public client experience
 * AWS/Azure Solution experience and relevant certification (good to have)

## Description

* Designs application products to meet user needs and align with DWP strategy and standards.
 * Provides a consistent set of application product architecture views, that communicate and describe the construction of the solution to all stakeholders.
 * Solution communication champion, making the complex simple to understand.
 * Supporting delivery teams, blending technical (development and architecture) and behaviour (leadership and communication) skills.

Responsibilities -

 * To design and represent architecture solutions
 + Deliver the technical and architecture design elements of projects / initiatives
 + Build relationships and work collaboratively with other Digital professionals
 + Create solution options and recommendations during project discovery and inception phases, to drive decision making on best solution design
 + Make technology choice proposals for Products
 + Create high-level solution architecture documentation and architecture design artefacts for governance, including all relevant SME input.
 * To ensure compliance of design with approved design in the Digital Blueprint
 + Ensure technical quality and adherence of Product designs to the Digital Blueprint, Enterprise Architecture and Product Roadmaps
 + Engage with Domain and Lead Solution Architects and engineers to implement solutions according to agreed and approved designs
 + Advocate and support delivery of solutions that reduce architecture complexity and reduce technical debt

To maintain Product roadmaps and help maintain the Digital Blueprint
*

 + Be accountable for product architecture, contribute to product roadmaps, in alignment with engineering

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 + Identify, capture, iterate and implement architecture patterns

To contribute to, and build capability in, the Architecture community
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 + Sharing best practice and reference architectures
 + Participate/Support development of the Architecture Community of Practice


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