Head of Solutions Architecture & Tech Strategy (Hybrid)

Bsi; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Pension plan with company contributes

27 days annual leave

Job summary

BSI is recruiting for Head of Solutions Architecture in Covent Garden, London. This hybrid, full-time leadership role drives end-to-end technology solutions, governance, and strategic design authority across the organisation.

You will lead a high-performing team of Solution Architects, shape roadmaps, align designs with standards, and collaborate with enterprise architecture to deliver customer-focused outcomes while balancing risk and cost.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience leading a Solution Architecture function or practice within a complex technology environment.
• Strong leadership and people management skills, with experience developing, coaching, and managing high-performing technical teams.
• Expertise in solution architecture, technology governance, and design authority processes.
• Excellent critical thinking, decision-making, communication, and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to influence at all levels.
• Proven ability to drive customer-focused outcomes while balancing technical, commercial, risk, and operational considerations.
• Strong understanding of at least one of the domains: infrastructure, connectivity, integration/middleware, data and analytics, or information security.

Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee the Solution Architecture function, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, business-focused solution designs.
• Own the governance, standards, and quality assurance processes that underpin solution architecture delivery.
• Act as the Technical Design Authority, providing strategic technology leadership and design oversight.
• Build, develop, and mentor a high-performing team of Solution Architects, driving professional growth and best practice sharing.
• Collaborate closely with Enterprise Architecture to align solution designs with strategic technology roadmaps and standards.
• Facilitate architecture and design governance forums, balancing compliance, usability, cost, risk, and sustainability considerations.
• Manage service performance, SLAs, and continuous improvement initiatives to ensure effective and efficient architectural support.
• Identify, assess, and manage technology risks while contributing to innovation, product evaluation, and strategic supplier engagement.

Skills

Leadership

Solution architecture

Governance

Stakeholder management

People development

Technical Design Authority

Job description

BSI is recruiting for Head of Solutions Architecture in Covent Garden, London. This hybrid, full-time leadership role drives end-to-end technology solutions, governance, and strategic design authority across the organisation.

You will lead a high-performing team of Solution Architects, shape roadmaps, align designs with standards, and collaborate with enterprise architecture to deliver customer-focused outcomes while balancing risk and cost.