Hybrid Solution Architect – Digital Platforms & Cloud

AMS CWS; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

AMS is recruiting two experienced Solution Architects for Royal London on a 6-month contract, based at Alderley Park near Manchester with a 50% hybrid work model. These roles focus on building a state-of-the-art digital platform, delivering scalable APIs, microservices and secure cloud architectures, while collaborating closely with Product and Engineering teams to set architectural direction.

Candidates should have a software engineering background and proven experience as a Solution/Technical

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and delivering modern digital applications.
• Experience as a Solution Architect or Technical Architect.
• Experience designing secure, scalable, cloud-based applications.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end solution design for digital products and services across multiple agile squads.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, secure and maintainable technical solutions.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering and Principal Engineers to ensure architectural decisions align with business objectives and technology strategy.
• Produce solution designs, architectural artefacts and technical roadmaps that support the delivery of modern digital platforms.
• Provide architectural guidance throughout the software development lifecycle, ensuring solutions are practical, achievable and aligned to engineering best practice.
• Define and review API strategies, including GraphQL and REST service design.
• Support the adoption of domain-driven design, microservices, event-driven architectures and modern integration patterns.
• Ensure appropriate consideration is given to security, authentication, authorisation, observability, performance and operational support requirements.
• Work closely with development teams to review implementation approaches and provide technical leadership during delivery.
• Contribute to architectural governance, technical standards and continuous improvement initiatives across the technology organisation.
• Support architecture decisions across customer journeys and digital experiences, including onboarding and servicing capabilities.

Skills

Software engineering

Solution Architect

Cloud-based architecture

Java

Angular

GraphQL

REST APIs

Microservices

Domain-driven design

Agile

Job description

AMS is recruiting two experienced Solution Architects for Royal London on a 6-month contract, based at Alderley Park near Manchester with a 50% hybrid work model. These roles focus on building a state-of-the-art digital platform, delivering scalable APIs, microservices and secure cloud architectures, while collaborating closely with Product and Engineering teams to set architectural direction.

Candidates should have a software engineering background and proven experience as a Solution/Technical