Principal Solution Architect: Digital Transformation

Talan Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Private healthcare (Bupa)

Life Assurance

Matched pension contributions

Season Ticket Loan

Cycle to work

Job summary

Talan, part of the Talan Group, is recruiting a Principal Solution Architect to lead architecture for digital transformation across Energy, Public Sector and Financial sectors in the UK. You will shape architectures, act as a technical authority, and guide stakeholders through secure, scalable, future-ready solutions.

You will mentor colleagues, drive governance, and contribute to thought leadership while supporting client engagements and bid responses.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and delivering solution architectures that support business and technology transformation programmes.
• Strong Solution Architecture and Enterprise Architecture expertise, including secure, resilient and scalable digital solutions.
• Experience leading technical design activities, architecture workstreams and multi-disciplinary delivery teams.
• Strong stakeholder management with the ability to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience establishing architecture governance, design assurance and technical review processes.
• Knowledge of architecture frameworks and methodologies such as TOGAF, Zachman or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Lead the definition of solution architectures and provide clear, actionable recommendations to support technology-enabled change and digital transformation initiatives.
• Act as the technical authority throughout the project lifecycle, providing leadership during design, implementation, deployment and transition into service.
• Establish and govern technical delivery frameworks, ensuring architecture governance, design assurance and decision-making processes.
• Lead architecture and design reviews, identifying and mitigating risks, dependencies and technical issues to support successful delivery outcomes.
• Promote architectural best practice and contribute to continuous improvement of standards, methodologies and ways of working across the Digital unit.
• Support business development activities through client engagement, solution shaping, bid responses and proposal development.
• Act as a trusted expert, providing strategic architecture advice to senior clients and internal stakeholders and influencing decisions on secure, scalable, and future-ready solutions.
• Coach and mentor colleagues, sharing specialist architecture knowledge and supporting capability development.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Enterprise Architecture

Security Architecture

Stakeholder Management

Architecture Governance

TOGAF / Frameworks

Cloud Architecture (Azure)

Pre-sales & Bid Support

Mentoring & Coaching

Job description

Talan, part of the Talan Group, is recruiting a Principal Solution Architect to lead architecture for digital transformation across Energy, Public Sector and Financial sectors in the UK. You will shape architectures, act as a technical authority, and guide stakeholders through secure, scalable, future-ready solutions.

You will mentor colleagues, drive governance, and contribute to thought leadership while supporting client engagements and bid responses.