Solutions Architect FTC

We identify and shape places that create opportunity enhance quality of life and bring joy to the people connected to them.

This is how we’ve created the UK’s leading portfolio of urban places and one of the largest real‑estate companies in Europe.

Our £10bn portfolio is built around premium workplaces the country’s pre‑eminent retail platform and a residential pipeline that will redefine urban life.

We’ve honed this ability over 80 years: spotting the opportunities, building the partnerships and continually adapting to shape the places that meet the needs of a changing world.

Places where life happens. Where businesses grow. And where cities are defined.

This role is based in London Victoria and offers hybrid working with the majority of the working week in the office. We recommend discussing arrangements with the hiring manager.

The Strategy and Architecture team, part of Landsec Data and Technology department, is responsible for ensuring that Landsec’s technology architecture is robust, business‑aligned and future‑ready supporting transformation and value delivery across the organisation. Our activities include:

• Defining and maintaining architecture standards across all technology domains
• Reviewing and assuring solution designs for alignment and integrity
• Managing architecture deliverables for business initiatives
• Guiding technology decisions and resolving architectural risks
• Leading architecture governance forums
• Acting as trusted advisors to the business

The purpose of this role is to lead the design of solutions governing the development and setting out the strategic direction for Landsec. Acting as a consultant within multiple business domains (Lifestyle, Workplace, Residential or Group) for a broad range of technology platforms and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes.

The role is a key function within the Strategy & Architecture team whose purpose is to:

• Ensure that Landsec Tech does the right things by delivering technology solutions that deliver the desired business strategy and outcomes.
• Support the design and delivery of technology projects by providing architectural governance to ensure that Landsec Tech does the right things right.

The role is responsible for delivering secure solutions at speed into the business following our corporate standards such as secure by design, cloud‑first and AI‑order to accelerate time to market. The role will utilise an agile methodology and both minimum viable product and iterative principles.

The individual must be both technically proficient and solution‑focused, motivated by finding coherent and strategic approaches to complex business challenges or new opportunities in line with Landsec’s digital ambitions. Desirable skills include architecture governance and stakeholder management.

• Leads the development and maintenance of a technology strategy and an outcome‑driven commercially focused technology roadmap for their domain. Ensuring alignment of strategic needs with technology delivery across the entire organisation.
• Leads the identification, evaluation, design and analysis of new solutions, suppliers and delivery methods to extend and refine Landsec’s digital ecosystem.
• Responsible for ensuring that the respective business application data security and technology architectures are in line with Landsec’s technology and governance strategies, policies and standards.
• Ensures that projects are aligned to the technology strategy throughout the delivery process and do not duplicate functionality or diverge from the agreed strategy.
• Manages the upkeep of the architecture repository, principles, methods and standards.
• Ensures that the appropriate solution design and technical documentation are completed and kept up to date. Adheres to change processes and produces high‑quality technical documentation.
• Identifies and recommends technology innovation experiments helping to create new products and services and assists in integrating the best of these into steady‑state operations for the organisation.
• Reviews the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy and technical debt and recommends…