Solution Architect

Overview

As a Solution Architect you will lead architecture decisions for scalable, secure digital solutions on Microsoft technologies, combining technical leadership with client-facing consulting. You’ll translate business goals into concrete designs, guide delivery teams, and shape governance across product, security, data and operations. Expect hands-on problem solving, clear communication, and meaningful impact on client outcomes through purposeful architecture and pragmatic tech choices.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible work options
• Learning and Development opportunities
• tailored benefits
• commitment to diversity and inclusion
• equal opportunities employer
• disability confident commitment

Responsibilities

• Lead workshops to clarify business outcomes and non-functional requirements
• Produce and maintain architecture artefacts (C4 diagrams, ADRs, HLD/LLD, API contracts) for delivery teams
• Design resilient, secure Azure-based solutions including identity, networking and observability
• Make pragmatic build-vs-buy and pattern/ service choices with documented trade-offs
• Support pre-sales and delivery assurance activities including estimates, risks, and SOW contributions
• Provide hands-on technical leadership to engineers and coach team leads
• Establish and assure engineering standards for CI/CD, testing, code quality, and security controls
• Track architecture risks and dependencies and report to senior stakeholders

Key requirements

• Proven experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed applications
• Strong Azure cloud architecture experience (AKS, Functions, API Management, Key Vault, App Insights)
• Solid software engineering background (ideally .NET) and modern integration patterns (REST, messaging, event-driven)
• Strong security fundamentals (identity and access management, OAuth2/OpenID Connect, secure API design, threat modelling)
• Ability to translate non-functional requirements into concrete designs
• Experience producing architecture artefacts and traceable decisions (ADRs, C4, sequence diagrams)
• Working knowledge of Agile environments and tooling (Azure DevOps/Jira/Confluence, Git, CI/CD)
• Client-facing consulting experience and ability to lead workshops and influence senior stakeholders
• Strong problem-solving mindset with evidence-based reasoning

• Clear communicator with ability to simplify complex topics
• Cross-functional collaboration and governance balancing
• Pragmatism and decisiveness with stakeholders
• Microsoft Azure (AKS, Functions, API Management, Key Vault, Application Insights)
• .NET software engineering
• REST, messaging, event-driven integration

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