Solution Architect Team Lead

What you’ll be doing

as a Solution Architect Team Lead

• Understand the problem space: delivery of solution architectures and designs through their full lifecycle
• Maintaining alignment with IT/industry standards and company strategy
• Liaison with project stakeholders to understand/improve requirements and specification of a solution design, in appropriate modelling languages, in particular Archi Mate.
• Interface with domain and platform architects to ensure conformance with principles and guardrails
• Facilitate the evaluation and selection of solution options, software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations
• Supports product managers in product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services, or systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information
• Use your experience on projects to suggest, and in some cases implement, changes to our modelling environment to better support the needs of our various stakeholders; this may require an amount of software engineering

The essential criteria to help you succeed in this role is:

• A degree in a STEM discipline or equivalent practical experience.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across cross‑functional and technical teams.
• Proven track record of delivering complex solutions within both Waterfall and Agile delivery environments.
• Hands‑on experience applying recognised enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g.
  TOGAF
  , Archi Mate
  ) to design and govern solution architectures.
• Working knowledge of software development principles, with practical programming experience or strong technical literacy.

Extra qualities that would be a great fit for our team:

• Experience using enterprise architecture or modelling tools such as BiZZdesign
  , Sparx Enterprise Architect
  , LeanIX
  , CACI MooD
  , or Orbus
  .
• Exposure to business or technical process modelling and optimisation.
• Formal certification in an architecture framework (e.g.
  TOGAF
  , Archi Mate
  ) or related professional accreditation.

• Competitive salary of up to £95,000 per annum, depending on experience.
• Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
• Car Allowance.
• Performance‑related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets.
• Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
• Private Medical Health Care.
• Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.