Azure Solution Architect – Enterprise Cloud & Strategy

AND Digital; Leeds; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

AND Digital in the United Kingdom seeks an experienced Solution Architect to join its Enterprise Architecture function. You will translate strategic business goals into robust, scalable technical solutions across Payments, Data, and Applications, working closely with Business, Infrastructure, and Security Architects, as well as our Strategic Design Authority.

As part of this role, you will define technology roadmaps aligned with transformation goals, promote standardized patterns, and ensure

Qualifications

• Strong FS background, ideally with deep knowledge of Mortgages and Savings.
• Proven experience delivering within high-pace, large-scale programs with structured governance and defined artifacts.
• Hands-on experience designing solutions on the Microsoft technology stack (e.g., Azure).
• Extensive solution architecture experience utilizing industry-standard frameworks (ideally TOGAF).
• Demonstrated track record across the full change lifecycle, with the ability to construct, deconstruct, and communicate complex systems clearly.
• Strong ability to rapidly analyze and articulate the cost, risk, time, and impact implications of new functionality.

Responsibilities

• Translate functional designs into high-quality technical architectures, assessing options to drive outcome-based decision-making.
• Define technology roadmaps aligned with our transformation goals, promoting standardized patterns, reference architectures, and technology estate simplification.
• Assure strategic change to ensure complete alignment with IT strategy, regulatory standards, security principles, and architecture design frameworks.
• Identify technology gaps, constraints, and risks within the technical estate; initiate consolidation, retirement, or replacement of legacy systems.
• Collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders (up to C-suite level) and external third-party providers, architects, and developers.
• Adhere strictly to Conduct Rules, regulatory guidelines, and Risk Management Frameworks (including Information Security and Data Governance).

Skills

Financial Services

Azure

TOGAF

Architecture Design

Stakeholder Management

Cost & Risk Analysis

Tools

Azure

Microsoft Stack

Job description

AND Digital in the United Kingdom seeks an experienced Solution Architect to join its Enterprise Architecture function. You will translate strategic business goals into robust, scalable technical solutions across Payments, Data, and Applications, working closely with Business, Infrastructure, and Security Architects, as well as our Strategic Design Authority.

As part of this role, you will define technology roadmaps aligned with transformation goals, promote standardized patterns, and ensure