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# Solution Architect (Housing Systems, Local Government)

- **Company:** Ivy Rock Partners Ltd
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Salary:** £143,000 - £156,000
- **Contract:** Contract
- **Skills:** Systems Architecture, Togaf
- **Published:** November 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/gb/en/find-jobs-in-United-Kingdom/-A4467D3BA7D832A0C4/

## About the Role

Skills, knowledge and experience required for theSolution Architect (Housing Systems, Local Government)

 * Strong experience of enterprise architecture in a complex organisation.
 * Strong understanding of enterprise architecture practice, including business, data, application and technology architecture, and the ability to apply recognised frameworks such as TOGAF in a practical and proportionate way.
 * Experience designing housing management/asset management systems for a local authority, housing association or other similar organisation.
 * Strong experience in discovering and cataloguing existing systems from various views including business, data, application and
 * Exposure to housing management solutions such as Housing One, Asprey, Civica, NEC or others.
 * Experience of software asset and licence management, including entitlement, usage, renewal, optimisation and compliance controls.
 * Experience translating business requirements into functional and non-functional requirements for designed solutions.
 * Strong analytical, strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess complex issues, identify risks, weigh options and develop practical recommendations.
 * Excellent communication skills, working with business stakeholders and including the ability to produce presentations and briefing papers for technical and non-technical audiences.

## Description

Our London based Public Sector client have an immediate requirement for a Solution Architect (Housing Systems, Local Government) to join on an initial 3 month basis, there is a chance of extension.

We are looking for a really strong interim Solution Architect with extensive delivery experience around housing systems within a local authority setting.

Key responsivities for the Solution Architect (Housing Systems, Local Government)

 * Discover, document and review the business, data and system architecture within the Housing areas of the Council.
 * Conduct interview based discovery with numerous Housing stakeholders, review existing designs and other documentation and capture current business and system friction points and limitations.
 * Capture details on existing contracts including key metrics such as contract length/expiry, scope of services.
 * Conduct paper review of existing design artefacts comprising range of document types covering data, infrastructure, integration, messaging and other areas.
 * Extract and classify key data from discovery exercise.
 * Create roadmap and ground-up designs that present a cohesive interim stages and end-state design together with evidence based justification for key decisions.
 * Review designs with the Lead Architect and DD&T leadership team, collate structured feedback and respond.
 * Summarise designs into targeted presentations for various internal stakeholder groups including business, technical, security.