Senior Solutions Architect – Manchester (Hybrid / Full-Time)
Salary £100,000
We’re seeking an experienced Senior Solutions Architect to join a growing architecture function and play a key role in shaping modern, scalable, and innovative technology solutions across the organisation. This is a full-time position based in Manchester, reporting into the Architecture leadership team.
If you’re passionate about designing robust solutions, driving transformation, and enabling high-performing delivery teams, this role offers the opportunity to make a real impact.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Develop application and system roadmaps to support transformation and modernisation initiatives.
- Create flexible, modular, and reusable solution designs in partnership with business and technical teams.
- Support high-level operational models and prepare business cases aligned with security and quality guidelines.
- Ensure solution architecture governance is followed, focusing on design patterns and technology standards.
- Own the final approval and acceptance of the solutions you design.
- Champion Agile and DevSecOps practices across delivery and operations teams.
- Drive innovation by exploring and promoting new technologies and approaches.
- Review designs and code with technical teams, ensuring best practices and performance standards.
- Identify technical risks and develop mitigation strategies.
- Stay ahead of emerging technologies and recommend relevant solutions based on market trends.
- Work closely with stakeholders to clarify requirements, scope initiatives, and define solution strategy.
- Produce clear and comprehensive architecture specifications and documentation.
What You’ll Bring
- Excellent analytical thinking, problem-solving and attention to detail.
- Strong documentation, planning and communication skills.
- Proven ability to design solutions across custom-built and COTS/MOTS applications, on cloud and on-prem environments.
- Experience working with systems such as policy administration, ERP, or customer/agent portals.
- Solid understanding of the full software development lifecycle and scaled agile delivery methods.
- TOGAF certification (or similar) advantageous.
- Expertise in architecture across web-based, service-oriented and enterprise systems.
- Ability to mentor and guide development teams on sound design principles, APIs, microservices, and cloud technologies.
- Experience with integration architectures including service bus, API mediation and event-driven models.
- Strong grasp of current technology trends and how to apply them creatively and cost-effectively.
- Experience developing enterprise roadmaps from current to future state.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience).
- Deep, hands-on cloud technology experience.
