Solution Architect

Company Description

Version 1 has celebrated over 26 years in Technology Services and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver solutions that drive customer success. Version 1 has several strategic technology partners including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, Out Systems and Snowflake. We’re also an award‑winning employer reflecting how employees are at the heart of Version 1.

We’ve been awarded:
Innovation Partner of the Year Winner 2023 Oracle EMEA Partner Awards, Global Microsoft Modernising Applications Partner of the Year Award 2023, AWS Collaboration Partner of the Year – EMEA 2023 and Best Workplaces for Women by Great Place To Work in UK and Ireland 2023.

As a consultancy and service provider, Version 1 is a digital‑first environment and we do things differently. We’re focused on our core values; using these we’ve seen significant growth across our practices and our Digital, Data and Cloud team is preparing for the next phase of expansion. This creates new opportunities for driven and skilled individuals to join one of the fastest‑growing consultancies globally.

As a Solution Architect, you’ll partner with government, financial services, and private sector clients to design solutions that solve their most complex digital challenges. You’ll bring together technical capabilities, user needs, and business objectives through critical thinking that breaks down problems and identifies practical approaches, considering non‑functional requirements from the outset. Working closely with delivery teams, you’ll tackle diverse solution challenges across the full lifecycle – from conducting options analysis for major system modernisation programmes and helping clients understand complex problems, through to facilitating design sessions with multi‑disciplinary teams, creating solutions that balance user needs with business constraints, and presenting your recommendations to architectural review boards and senior stakeholders.

Whether that’s evaluating options for a government department’s citizen portal, designing integration approaches for a bank’s digital transformation, or guiding development teams through implementation decisions, you’ll bring both solution design expertise and practical problem‑solving skills to every situation.

Your background designing and implementing enterprise‑scale digital solutions means you can credibly advise clients on what architectural approaches work in practice, understanding the technical complexities and implications of different options. You’ll bring systems thinking that connects architectural decisions across broader service and business contexts, combined with proven experience collaborating with diverse teams including user researchers, product managers, software engineers, and senior business stakeholders.

Your approach balances strategic architectural thinking with hands‑on implementation experience, taking a user‑centred perspective that considers different viewpoints while meeting technical requirements and supporting business objectives.

As part of our central architecture team, you’ll work alongside experienced Technology Principals and other Solution Architects who share your passion for solving complex challenges. This gives you a strong support network to collaborate with, learn from different perspectives, and tackle problems together. We recognise that architecture is as much about continuous learning as it is about applying existing knowledge – you’ll bring your proven experience while staying current with industry trends, modern practices, and emerging technologies.

Your architectural expertise helps our clients deliver digital services that create meaningful outcomes for the people who use them.

Solution architecture experience – you have experience designing and validating solutions for enterprise‑scale challenges, with involvement in successful implementations across multiple domains including cloud platforms, application architecture, data architecture, and system integration. You can show evidence of taking responsibility for complex solution design with successful outcomes,…