Senior Solution Architect - Data Products & API

Toyota Connected Europe Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and welfare

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Toyota Connected Europe Limited is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to lead the architecture for data products and commercial platforms in a hybrid London-based role. You will shape API-enabled offerings, align architecture with customer value and regulatory requirements, and partner with product, business and engineering leaders.

The role requires strong strategic thinking, experience with data platforms and API monetisation, and the ability to translate concepts into sustainable, governed

Qualifications

• Experience as a Senior Solution Architect or similar on complex digital platforms and data products.
• Ability to connect architecture decisions to customer value, commercial outcomes and regulatory needs.
• Experience in at least one commercial platform domain (API monetisation, data products, product catalogue, etc.).
• Experience defining strategy, operating models, and capability roadmaps for a product/platform/domain.
• Use of business-architecture techniques (capability maps, value streams, customer journeys) to align strategy with tech.
• Sufficient technical depth to guide APIs, data flows, cloud services, security, reliability and cost.

Responsibilities

• Shape the architecture and evolution of API-enabled data products and platforms.
• Partner with product and business leaders to define commercial propositions and transition ideas to services.
• Develop target-state architectures and capability roadmaps across business processes, data systems and operating model.
• Support decision-making considering customer needs, opportunities, regulation, cost and delivery complexity.
• Create and maintain business-architecture models (capability maps, value streams, journeys) to evaluate scenarios and guide decisions.
• Record architecture trade-offs for reuse and understanding by teams.

Skills

Senior architecture experience

Business acumen

API monetisation

Data products

Capability roadmaps

Operating models

Architecture governance

Stakeholder communication

Cloud services

Security and cost awareness

Job description

Toyota Connected Europe Limited is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to lead the architecture for data products and commercial platforms in a hybrid London-based role. You will shape API-enabled offerings, align architecture with customer value and regulatory requirements, and partner with product, business and engineering leaders.

The role requires strong strategic thinking, experience with data platforms and API monetisation, and the ability to translate concepts into sustainable, governed