Hybrid Cloud & AI Solution Architect

International Business Machines Corporation

Greater London

Hybrid

GBP 70,000 - 110,000

Full time

6 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

25 days holiday

Private medical cover

Job summary

IBM Consulting UK is seeking multiple Solution Architects to shape, design and deliver secure, scalable and resilient solutions for public and private sector clients. You will translate requirements into high-quality designs, work with business stakeholders and delivery leads, and guide engineering teams through implementation in hybrid cloud environments.

The role emphasizes governance, architecture artefacts, and collaboration across cross-functional teams to drive digital transformation while

Qualifications

Experience operating as a Solution Architect in complex enterprise environments.
Strong governance and Design Authority understanding.
Experience producing architecture artefacts including Solution Designs, HLDs, option assessments and architecture decision records.
Strong stakeholder engagement across business, technical and delivery teams.
Experience using Jira, Confluence and UML modelling tools.
Good understanding of modern application architectures and software delivery practices.
Experience with cloud-hosted and hybrid solutions, ideally within AWS environments.
Understanding of AWS services including EC2, EKS and S3.
Experience designing solutions involving messaging/integration technologies such as RabbitMQ and IBM MQ.
Experience supporting projects from requirements and design through to implementation and production deployment.
Active UK Security Clearance.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end solution architecture activities from discovery through to delivery.
Produce and maintain architecture artefacts including Solution Designs, High-Level Designs (HLDs), option assessments and architecture decision records.
Present architecture proposals through Design Authority and governance forums.
Translate business, functional and non-functional requirements into scalable technical solutions.
Define architecture approaches across applications, integrations, cloud services, data flows and supporting infrastructure.
Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure architecture designs are successfully delivered and aligned to agreed standards.
Support application modernisation and digital transformation initiatives.
Define integration patterns and API strategies across complex enterprise environments.
Work closely with stakeholders to balance delivery requirements, technical constraints and long-term architectural objectives.
Provide technical leadership throughout project delivery, supporting issue resolution, risk management and architecture assurance activities.
Contribute to architecture governance, peer reviews and technical quality standards.
Support solution estimation, technical planning and delivery roadmaps.
Mentor engineers, developers and junior architects where appropriate.