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Solution Architect - Bristol

Summary

Designs and oversees complex IT solutions for clients, leading engineering teams and defining technical direction across domains like cloud, security, and data. Works with stakeholders to deliver scalable, high-level architecture and technical roadmaps for enterprise transformation projects.

Salary: £95,000 - 95,000 per year

Requirements:
  • Strong hands-on software engineering background
  • Experience leading engineering teams delivering applications and services
  • Proven solution architecture experience
  • Strong understanding and practical application of architecture and delivery methodologies
  • Ability to operate across architectural domains, with deeper expertise in at least one area
  • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
  • Confident working with multiple technical and business stakeholders in fast-paced environments
  • Experience may include cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Experience may include architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, or MODAF
  • Experience may include delivery methods such as SAFe, Scrum, or Kanban
  • Experience may include modelling tools and methods such as UML, ArchiMate, or Ardoq
  • Experience may include wider platforms including Oracle, IBM, and Salesforce
Responsibilities:
  • Create and assure key architecture artefacts, including High-Level Designs, Technical Options Papers, and key design decisions
  • Work closely with engineering teams, often acting as the lead technical SME
  • Define technical vision and establish architectural guardrails
  • Support senior stakeholders with cases for change, cost estimation, and detailed planning
  • Work across multiple architectural domains, including Business, Data, Application, Technology, and Security
  • Work across varied projects, clients, and technology stacks
Technologies:
  • AWS
  • Architect
  • ArchiMate
  • Azure
  • Cloud
  • GCP
  • IBM
  • Support
  • Kanban
  • Oracle
  • Security
  • TOGAF
  • UML
  • Salesforce

More:

We are a leading technology and consulting environment offering a Solution Architect role based in London with a hybrid working pattern of approximately 2 days per week in the office. This is an opportunity to work on complex transformation programmes across a variety of sectors while staying close to engineering and taking ownership of solution design, technical direction, and senior stakeholder engagement. We offer a salary of up to £95,000, private healthcare for you and your family, a generous company pension scheme, and an annual performance-based bonus.

last updated 34 week of 2026

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