Solution Architect

In this role you will design and govern scalable solution architectures for a portfolio of digital products within a major UK public sector transformation programme. You will bridge architecture, engineering and delivery to ensure secure, resilient, cloud-based solutions. You’ll collaborate with product teams and engineers to translate requirements into practical designs and deliver architectural artefacts across domain boundaries. This position offers hands-on influence from discovery through live service and emphasizes governance, security and modern engineering practices.

• Design and maintain solution architectures across multiple digital products and services
• Translate requirements into practical, deliverable designs
• Produce architecture artefacts covering application, integration, infrastructure and data
• Collaborate with engineering to ensure technical feasibility and modern delivery practices
• Provide architectural guidance throughout the delivery lifecycle from discovery to live service
• Design cloud-based solutions with a focus on security, resilience, scalability and operations
• Support API-led integration, event-driven architectures and modern design approaches
• Define non-functional requirements including performance, availability, maintainability and security
• Identify technical risks and dependencies and work with delivery teams on solutions
• Contribute to architecture governance and promote pragmatic, delivery-focused decisions
• Work with architects, engineers and specialists to establish reusable standards and best practices
• Communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect on large, complex digital delivery programmes
• Experience delivering architecture in security-sensitive government environments (policing, public safety, etc.)
• Strong experience across multiple products and technology domains
• Experience designing modern cloud-based solutions with APIs, microservices and event-driven architectures
• Solid understanding of application, infrastructure and software engineering principles
• Experience working with software engineers, DevOps and delivery teams
• Ability to balance strategic architecture with delivery realities
• Experience defining and assuring non-functional requirements
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills

• Stakeholder management
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Cloud-based architecture
• APIs
• Microservices