Solution Architect – Contract
📍 Remote | 💰 Rate: TBC | ⏳ 3 Months (Contract – covering a resource gap)
Oliver James has partnered with a fast-growing technology consultancy specialising in integration and automation, helping organisations modernise their technology landscape – from replacing legacy point-to-point integrations to enabling self-service automation and Agentic AI strategies.
We’re looking for an experienced Solution Architect to join a live integration project on an initial 3-month contract, covering a gap in the team. This is a hands-on role for someone who has already operated at Solution Architect level and can hit the ground running – leading requirement and solution design sessions and building out a new application with no existing system of record to migrate from.
The Role
You’ll lead the design and documentation of end-to-end integration solutions, run requirement and solution-gathering workshops directly with stakeholders, and work closely with development teams to deliver against agreed architecture. The core of this engagement is building out the full lifecycle of an insurance and/or annuity policy as a new application – there’s currently no system or process in place, so this is greenfield design work rather than integrating with an established system of record.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead design and documentation of end-to-end integration solutions, translating business/technical requirements into clear architecture
- Run requirement and solution-gathering workshops with clients and stakeholders
- Produce solution design documentation – architecture diagrams, data flow maps, integration specifications
- Work closely with development teams to ensure builds match agreed design
- Evaluate and apply integration platforms and tooling, with a strong focus on Workato
- Design and build out the lifecycle of an insurance/annuity policy as a standalone application, in the absence of an existing system of record
- Identify and escalate risks, assumptions, and dependencies
- Support pre-sales activity: scoping, effort estimation, proposal writing where required
Skills & Experience
- Proven experience operating as a Solution Architect within an integration or technology consultancy environment
- Solid integrations background – APIs (REST/SOAP), messaging patterns, event-driven architecture, and data transformation
- Experience with Workday integrations, primarily HR, though Finance experience also relevant
- Insurance or Healthcare sector experience beneficial (Health, Life, and/or Pensions) but not essential
- Comfortable running requirement and solution design sessions directly with stakeholders, including in greenfield/no-system-of-record environments
- Ability to produce clear technical documentation and diagrams (Lucidchart, Visio, or similar)
- Strong communication skills – confident engaging both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience working within Agile delivery methodologies
