Lead Solution Architect

End-to-End Solution Architecture: Own and deliver end-to-end solution architecture across the enterprise technology estate, translating business requirements into scalable, secure and practical technical solutions aligned with business objectives and architectural roadmaps.

Enterprise Application Architecture: Lead solution design across core business platforms, including Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations, Dynamics 365 Sales, Oracle CPQ, HubSpot and Microsoft Navision, with particular focus on the quote-to-cash business process.

Integration Architecture: Define application boundaries, integration patterns, data flows and API/event contracts, ensuring seamless connectivity across enterprise platforms using Microsoft Azure and Azure Integration Services, alongside other appropriate integration technologies.

Architecture Design & Documentation: Produce C1/C2 architecture diagrams, key interaction flows, solution designs and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), using C4 modelling standards to communicate technical solutions clearly to engineering teams and stakeholders.

Technical Design Authority: Act as a key member of the Architecture Guild and Technical Design Authority (TDA), reviewing and challenging solution designs, assessing technical trade-offs and ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards.

System Integrator & Vendor Management: Provide internal technical oversight of strategic System Integrator (SI) and third-party partners, validating proposed designs, challenging architectural decisions and ensuring solutions meet agreed technical and business requirements.

Architecture Governance & Reusable Standards: Maintain a version-controlled architecture repository using Git and Azure DevOps, including Markdown ADRs, standardised diagrams and reusable architectural patterns or ‘Paved Paths’ to accelerate consistent delivery.

Non-Functional Requirements & Operational Readiness: Embed security, scalability, resilience, performance, observability, monitoring and alerting requirements into solution designs, ensuring services are robust and ready for production transition.

Delivery Assurance & Technical Leadership: Work closely with product owners, engineering teams, data and platform leads to resolve cross-system design challenges, review implementation specifications and ensure delivered solutions remain aligned with agreed architecture.

Stakeholder Engagement & Technical Advisory: Provide hands-on architectural leadership, communicate complex technical concepts effectively, advise senior stakeholders on solution options and trade-offs, and mentor internal engineering teams to strengthen architectural capability.