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# Solutions Architect

- **Company:** Ocho People
- **Location:** Belfast, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £75,318.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Data as a Services, Data Architecture, Graph Database, Neo4j, Azure Machine Learning, Management of Software Versions, Data Processing, Event Driven Architecture, Api Gateway, Data Pipelines, Serverless Computing, Legacy Systems, Microservices
- **Published:** October 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5917681825

## About the Role

* 5+ years as a Solutions Architect or in a senior technical design role, with direct accountability for architecture decisions on complex, multi-system programmes
 * Proven delivery of cloud-native solutions on AWS (microservices, event-driven design, API gateway patterns, serverless, managed data services), with a strong record of architectural artefacts such as ADRs and NFR specifications
 * Experience designing integrations across modern and legacy systems, with solid data architecture grounding and embedded stakeholder management in agile teams

Desirable

 * Experience in insurance or financial services, such as claims, policy administration or regulatory compliance systems
 * Exposure to AI/ML platform integration, large-scale modernisation programmes or graph databases (Neptune, Neo4j)
 * AWS certification at Professional or Specialty level

## Description

As Solutions Architect, you'll set and own the architecture for a complex, evolving programme spanning data processing, system integrations and user-facing workflows. You'll work alongside engineers, product owners and enterprise architects, sitting inside sprints rather than governing from upstream. You'll turn business complexity into clear designs, challenge trade-offs, and explain architectural direction to senior stakeholders., * Define and own the solution architecture across multiple engineering teams, from data pipelines and integrations through to user-facing workflows

 * Translate architectural direction into actionable designs, in line with enterprise architecture standards and domain roadmaps
 * Produce and maintain solution architecture descriptions, ADRs, non-functional requirements specifications and Well-Architected Review assessments
 * Own the API contract model between platform and experience layers, with clean boundaries and disciplined versioning
 * Lead Well-Architected Reviews covering security, reliability, performance, cost and operational pillars
 * Identify and escalate architectural risk early, especially around integration contracts, data consistency, scale and regulatory compliance
 * Support agile delivery in real time, joining sprint ceremonies and architecture syncs without becoming a bottleneck
 * Work closely with security and observability colleagues so designs are secure by default, traceable and supportable
 * Keep pace with AI and cloud developments and find responsible ways to apply them to the platform