Hybrid Cloud Solutions Architect — Enterprise Design Leader

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

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Private medical

Dental & optical cover

Online shopping discounts

Employee Assistance Program

Life assurance

Group pension plan (salary sacrifice)

Job summary

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow seeks multiple Solution Architects to shape, design and deliver secure, scalable enterprise solutions across cloud platforms and on-premises environments. You will translate requirements into robust high-level and detailed designs, aligning with governance and strategic technology direction.

You will own end-to-end architecture activities, produce artefacts, mentor teams and drive architecture governance across delivery streams.

Qualifications

• Experience producing architecture artefacts including Solution Designs, High-Level 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.

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.

Skills

Solution architecture

Stakeholder engagement

Java (17/21)

RESTful APIs

Enterprise integration patterns

Cloud architectures

TOGAF

Agile delivery

Tools

Jira

Confluence

UML modelling tools

Docker

Kubernetes

RabbitMQ

IBM MQ

AWS

EC2

S3

Job description

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow seeks multiple Solution Architects to shape, design and deliver secure, scalable enterprise solutions across cloud platforms and on-premises environments. You will translate requirements into robust high-level and detailed designs, aligning with governance and strategic technology direction.

You will own end-to-end architecture activities, produce artefacts, mentor teams and drive architecture governance across delivery streams.