Hybrid Cloud & AI Solutions Architect (Public Sector)

International Business Machines Corporation; Hursley; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Private medical

Dental & optical cover

Employee Assistance Program

Pension plan

Job summary

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow invites experienced Solution Architects to help shape and deliver secure, scalable architectures across hybrid cloud environments for public and private sector clients. You will collaborate with stakeholders, design governance artefacts, and guide delivery from discovery to production, ensuring security and operational excellence.

You will engage with cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and help drive digital transformation initiatives in a complex enterprise

Qualifications

• Experience operating as a Solution Architect within complex enterprise, consulting or transformation environments.
• Strong understanding of architecture governance, Design Authority processes and solution architecture methodologies.
• Experience producing architecture artefacts including Solution Designs, HLDs, option assessments and architecture decision records.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with experience working across business, technical and delivery teams.
• Experience using architecture and delivery tooling such as Jira, Confluence and UML modelling tools.
• Good understanding of modern application architectures and software delivery practices.
• Knowledge of Java (17/21), XML and JSON schemas, RESTful services and API-driven architectures, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Experience working with cloud-hosted and hybrid solutions, ideally within AWS environments.
• Active UK Security Clearance or willingness to undergo BPSS/NVS procedures.

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 delivered and aligned to standards.
• Support application modernisation and digital transformation initiatives.
• Define integration patterns and API strategies across complex enterprise environments.
• Mentor engineers, developers and junior architects where appropriate.
• 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.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Stakeholder engagement

Architecture governance

Design Authority

Cloud/Hybrid architectures

Microservices

DevSecOps

CI/CD

TOGAF

RFI/RFP participation

Tools

Jira

Confluence

UML modelling tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

RabbitMQ

IBM MQ

Job description

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow invites experienced Solution Architects to help shape and deliver secure, scalable architectures across hybrid cloud environments for public and private sector clients. You will collaborate with stakeholders, design governance artefacts, and guide delivery from discovery to production, ensuring security and operational excellence.

You will engage with cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and help drive digital transformation initiatives in a complex enterprise