Lead Solution Architect: Strategy & Governance

Sky UK; Livingston; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Private healthcare

Pension up to 9% employer contribution

Sky VIP rewards

Employee discounts

Job summary

Sky UK is seeking a Principal Solution Architect in Livingston to drive solution architecture across UK&I platforms. You’ll engage with enterprise and product teams to translate strategic priorities into capability-based changes and provide clear architectural guidance.

The role reports to a Principal Solution Architect and sits within Engineering Solutions. You’ll contribute to architecture runway planning, governance, and ensure alignment with business and technical objectives while promoting

Qualifications

• Experience breaking down initiatives into capability-based changes.
• Ability to simplify complex requirements into clear architectural guidance.
• Experience working with product and engineering teams to align solutions.
• Experience contributing to architecture runway planning aligned with business and technical objectives.
• Ability to engage in architecture governance processes and maintain principles, policies, and standards.
• Strong communication skills across a range of stakeholders.
• Ability to influence and collaborate with architecture, product, engineering, and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Engage with enterprise and system architecture, and product and engineering teams, to break down initiatives into capability changes.
• Distil complexity into clear architectural guidance.
• Challenge commercial and operational requirements and propose alternative approaches that still deliver value.
• Role-model the capability-led approach to architecture and documentation, embedding its use in the team and demonstrating its value to peers and stakeholders.
• Help to build the architecture runway for your portfolio, informed by business and technical objectives, and enterprise architecture strategy.
• Work with your peers and colleagues to strive for technical excellence, collaboration and strong delivery.
• Contribute to solution architecture governance, engaging positively and effectively in the process.
• Participate in enterprise governance forums when appropriate, balancing alignment with Group Architecture strategy with a pragmatic view that drives UK&I’s commercial and operational priorities.

Skills

Leadership

Governance

Architecture governance

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Job description

Sky UK is seeking a Principal Solution Architect in Livingston to drive solution architecture across UK&I platforms. You’ll engage with enterprise and product teams to translate strategic priorities into capability-based changes and provide clear architectural guidance.

The role reports to a Principal Solution Architect and sits within Engineering Solutions. You’ll contribute to architecture runway planning, governance, and ensure alignment with business and technical objectives while promoting