Principal Solutions Architect

Overview

In this role you guide the solution architecture for the Head of Solution Architecture, influencing stakeholders to define and deliver future state architectures. You shape solutions to complex business problems using diverse artefacts to drive transformational changes and ensure alignment with policies, standards, roadmaps. You manage technical quality, engage with suppliers, and foster continual improvement to support BA Digital initiatives. You work across domains to balance usability, cost, and timelines, while promoting best practices and architectural excellence.

Pay / Benefits

• unlimited basic and premium standby tickets on British Airways flights
• up to 30 discounted Hotline airfares per year for self and family

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across multiple business or technical domains
• Collaborate with Architects to ensure fit-for-purpose solutions
• Ensure alignment with policies, standards and roadmaps; manage non-compliance
• Maintain capabilities view and ensure security and obsolescence considerations
• Identify and deliver continual improvement opportunities; drive architecture roadmaps
• Manage key supplier relationships and ensure deliverables meet standards
• Engage in Agile ceremonies; contribute to backlogs and capability prioritisation
• Lead, coach and manage solution architects within their domain
• Promote architectural consistency through reviews and knowledge sharing
• Support strategic supplier relationships and cross-BA Digital initiatives
• Develop technical roadmaps with stakeholders for domain goals

Key requirements

• Proven leadership in complex solution architectures across multiple domains
• Experience with application development, enterprise integration, service definitions, SLAs, IT infrastructure and migration planning
• Strong track record of stakeholder management at senior levels and influencing across the organisation
• Experience applying best practices and methodologies in architecture
• Awareness of global architecture trends and ability to deliver business benefits
• Experience operating across multiple countries and cultures (desirable)
• Fluent written and spoken English

• leadership
• influencing and persuading
• stakeholder management
• Solution architecture across business, data, applications, and technology domains
• Enterprise integration and service definitions
• IT infrastructure and migration planning

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