Hybrid Solution Architect – National Security & Cloud

International Business Machines Corporation; Hursley; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Sabbatical program

Paternity leave

Maternity leave

Maternity returners scheme

Private medical

Job summary

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow seeks multiple Solution Architects to shape, design and deliver secure, scalable architectures across complex enterprise environments. You will collaborate with stakeholders, engineering teams and delivery leads to translate requirements into high-quality designs that balance business outcomes with security and sustainability.

You will define architectures across applications, integrations, cloud platforms and enterprise services, ensuring alignment with governance

Qualifications

• Experience as a Solution Architect in large enterprise or transformation programmes.
• Knowledge of architecture governance, Design Authority processes and artefacts.
• Strong stakeholder engagement across business, technical and delivery teams.

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) and decision records.
• Present architecture proposals through Design Authority and governance forums.
• Translate business, functional and non-functional requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Define integration patterns and API strategies across complex enterprise environments.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure architecture designs are delivered to standards.
• Support solution estimation, technical planning and delivery roadmaps.
• Mentor engineers, developers and junior architects where appropriate.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Stakeholder engagement

Architecture governance

Java 17/21

RESTful APIs

Cloud/hybrid architectures

Jira/Confluence

UML modelling

Enterprise integration

Security awareness

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Jira

Confluence

UML modelling tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow seeks multiple Solution Architects to shape, design and deliver secure, scalable architectures across complex enterprise environments. You will collaborate with stakeholders, engineering teams and delivery leads to translate requirements into high-quality designs that balance business outcomes with security and sustainability.

You will define architectures across applications, integrations, cloud platforms and enterprise services, ensuring alignment with governance