Azure Solutions Architect – Cloud, Data & Governance Leader

Elexon; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 81,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Private medical insurance

Generous pension scheme

Job summary

Elexon is seeking a Solution Architect (Grade 11) to join the Architecture team in London. You’ll work with senior stakeholders and cross‑functional product teams to deliver high‑profile digital initiatives and translate business needs into scalable, secure technical solutions.

You’ll shape cloud‑based solutions on Microsoft Azure, provide architectural leadership to engineering and system integrator teams, and ensure designs align with Elexon’s architecture principles across the full product

Qualifications

• Translate business requirements into scalable, secure and practical technical designs.
• Create and maintain solution architecture documentation and deliverables for settlement systems.
• Provide architectural direction to engineering teams and support adherence to agreed designs.
• Review solution and design documentation produced by external vendors and system integrators.
• Ensure proposed solutions align with Elexon’s enterprise architecture and design principles.
• Work across Microsoft Azure, cloud and hosted technologies when designing solutions.

Responsibilities

• Create design-driven technical solutions that balance business requirements with architectural and technology considerations.
• Translate business requirements into clear, practical technical designs.
• Provide architectural direction to engineering teams and support adherence to agreed designs.
• Review vendor solution and design documentation against architecture principles and standards.
• Contribute to architecture governance and ensure scalability, reliability and security.

Skills

Azure cloud technologies

Solution Architect experience

Cloud infrastructure concepts

Agile environments

Vendor and system integrator管理

Enterprise architecture tooling

Azure DevOps

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Azure DevOps

UML

ArchiMate

Job description

Elexon is seeking a Solution Architect (Grade 11) to join the Architecture team in London. You’ll work with senior stakeholders and cross‑functional product teams to deliver high‑profile digital initiatives and translate business needs into scalable, secure technical solutions.

You’ll shape cloud‑based solutions on Microsoft Azure, provide architectural leadership to engineering and system integrator teams, and ensure designs align with Elexon’s architecture principles across the full product