Senior Solutions Architect

End Date

Sunday 08 March 2026

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Hybrid Working

Job Description Summary

The purpose of the Senior Solution Architect is to orchestrate complex solution architectures with a broad architectural significance for key outcomes or epics by defining the architectures and designs that deliver our key outcomes aligning with our technology strategy. They play a substantive role in enabling teams to deliver at pace by shaping the solution architecture forward look for a lab or platform, and partner with Product Owners engineering teams and Enterprise architects.

Job Description

• Develops and/or delivers budget plans for own area with guidance from senior colleagues.
• Identifies shortcomings, suggests improvements and implements approved revisions to current compliance processes, systems and procedures within assigned unit and/or discipline.
• Meets the needs of significant customers related to complex, often customised products and services and/or manages a customer advisor department over a significant area.
• Takes responsibility for implementing a team's formal development framework with guidance from senior colleagues, while informally coaching others throughout the organisation in area of expertise and pursuing and investing in opportunities for own personal development.
• Initiates, formulates and implements new business practices for own discipline, while managing the development and/or delivery of a significant element of the organisation's change management programme.
• Takes responsibility for developing and delivering a key element of the organisation's knowledge management system.
• Builds complex frameworks to fully assess the scope and context of short-term and long-term business needs.
• Manages the definition, development, and/or delivery of a significant product or service of the organisation's development/engineering programme and offers to ensure alignment with customer requirements, and/or manages a medium-size product development/specialist team.
• Develops new methods, tools and programmes for quality assurance while leading developmental initiatives and/or programmes within an area of expertise.
• Makes a significant improvement on short-term or long-term business performance by recommending authoritative technical and/or professional solutions.
• Monitors and manages a wide range of activities of a significant team ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements by liaising with all internal risk management functions while supporting the development and implementation of the organisation's compliance policy.
• Manages the development and/or delivery of an element of the organisation's strategic planning.
• Develops tactical plans for optimisation of resources and assets being managed within a given area or department.
• Develops and/or delivers a plan for a specific area of responsibility by managing others.