Senior Solution Architect (Data Products & Commercial Platforms)

Toyota Connected; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car scheme with 12-month lease

30 days holiday (+5)

Free lunch

Pension contribution 10%

Private medical insurance

Income protection

Job summary

Toyota Connected is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to shape the evolution of data products, API-enabled platforms and commercial services. You will partner with product, business and engineering leaders to deliver scalable, governed solutions that create customer value and commercial outcomes.

The role requires deep architectural expertise, strong stakeholder influence and a track record of turning ideas into operational services in a regulated, data-driven environment.

Qualifications

• Senior Solution Architect or equivalent with track record delivering complex digital platforms.
• Experience shaping product and architectural strategy to drive customer value and commercial outcomes.
• Ability to translate business needs into pragmatic architectural options with governance.

Responsibilities

• Define target-state architectures for data products and commercial platforms.
• Collaborate with product, business and engineering leaders to evolve services.
• Evaluate trade-offs between customer value, regulatory needs and cost.
• Create and maintain capability roadmaps, value streams and operating models.
• Lead architecture decisions with clear documentation and risk assessment.

Skills

API monetisation

Data products

Product catalogue

Order management

Subscription management

Data platform

Cloud architecture

Governance

Stakeholder management

Regulatory compliance

Job description

• TCEU is investing in the evolution of connected vehicle data capabilities into secure, scalable and commercially valuable products and services for customers, partners and Toyota
• As Senior Solution Architect, you will help define how these capabilities create value, how they should be productised, and how they can evolve from early concepts into reliable, governed and sustainable services
• This is a strategic role within the Architecture Practice, requiring a broad view across business capability, product strategy and technology architecture.
• You will own the architecture direction for a defined business domain while partnering closely with product, business and engineering leaders.
• The role requires enough technical depth to evaluate architectural trade-offs and guide solution direction, while keeping the primary focus on customer value, commercial outcomes and long-term business capability
• Shape the architecture and evolution of API-enabled data products and commercial platforms, ensuring they support customer value, business outcomes, regulatory needs and long-term scalability
• Partner with product and business leaders to evaluate new commercial propositions, identify the capabilities required and define pragmatic paths from idea to operational service
• Develop target-state architectures, capability roadmaps and transition plans across business process, data, systems and operating model considerations
• Help teams make difficult decisions where customer needs, commercial opportunity, regulation, cost, delivery complexity and technical constraints pull in different directions
• Create and maintain business architecture models and views, including capability maps, value streams, customer journeys, operating models, commercial flows and information flows, using them to evaluate business scenarios, assess options and guide strategic and operational decision-making
• Record the reasoning behind important architecture decisions so that trade-offs are visible, reusable and easy for other teams to understand
• Support architecture and business governance forums with balanced recommendations, clear options and practical risk assessments
• Work closely with product owners, engineers, business stakeholders, Toyota entities and external partners to move ideas from concept through design, delivery and operation
• Maintain strong domain knowledge in data products, API monetisation, product catalogue, order management, subscription management, order orchestration, marketplaces or similar commercial platform domains
• What does success looks like?
• Data product and commercial platform initiatives have a clear architecture direction, target-state view, capability roadmap and decision history that business, product and engineering teams can understand and use
• New propositions are assessed through a balanced view of customer value, commercial model, operating model, regulatory obligations, delivery feasibility and technical sustainability
• Architecture decisions demonstrably improve customer value, commercial viability and the long-term sustainability of products and services
• Ideas progress from concept towards real services, avoiding both abstract strategy with no delivery path and technology choices with no clear customer or business value
• Business and technical stakeholders have a shared understanding of the trade-offs, risks and next steps needed to evolve connected vehicle data into valuable products and services

Benefits

• Car scheme - Our partnership with TGB means you can drive a brand-new Toyota or Lexus. Sign up for a 12-month lease, and we’ll do the rest. No deposit, no insurance payment—just grab the keys and go!
• 30-days holidays - Helping you find the ideal work-life balance, we offer our employees 30 days holiday, with an option to purchase an additional 5
• Free lunch - Yes, there is such a thing. Working with various partners, we offer all employees a choice of healthy (or not) lunch options for free every day when they come to the office
• Pension contribution - We contribute the equivalent of 10% of your gross basic salary to our group personal pension plan every month. You can also top this up with Salary Sacrifice contributions, and we’ll add any saved National Insurance contributions
• Medical insurance - If private medical care is vital to you, we offer a comprehensive scheme with access to online medical support 24/7. We also cover partners and children (we pay the premium, you pay the tax)
• Income protection - If you cannot work due to serious illness or injury, this offers financial and rehabilitation support to help you return when the time is right

Ability to bring structure to ambiguous business ideas, using evidence, customer insight and business objectives to define clear options, recommendations, transition steps and architecture decisions that product and engineering teams can act onEnough technical depth to work confidently with engineering teams and guide solution direction across APIs, data flows, event-driven architecture, cloud services, security, scalability, resilience and cost, while connecting those choices to business valueProven experience as a Senior Solution Architect, Enterprise Architect, Business Architect or Domain Architect working on complex digital platforms, data products or commercial servicesAbility to challenge assumptions constructively, invite alternative viewpoints and help stakeholders make evidence-based decisions in complex and ambiguous situationsExperience defining strategy, operating models, capability roadmaps or commercial architecture for a product, platform or business domain, not only producing implementation-level solution designsExperience in at least one relevant commercial platform domain, such as API monetisation, data products, product catalogue, order management, subscription management, order orchestration, marketplaces, finance, telecoms or eCommerceStrong business acumen, with the ability to connect architecture decisions to customer value, commercial outcomes, regulatory obligations and long-term business capability developmentStrong communication skills, with the ability to explain business and technical ideas clearly to senior leaders, product teams, architects and engineersExperience using business architecture techniques such as capability modelling, value streams, customer journeys or operating-model analysis to connect strategy with technology changeDemonstrated experience taking products, platforms or services from concept through implementation and operation, not only defining strategies, recommendations or high-level designsKnowledge of CRM, consent management, customer identity, data commercialisation, API productisation, partner ecosystems or regulatory compliance in data-driven servicesExperience with subscription products, marketplace platforms, digital commerce, payments, mobility services or other regulated digital ecosystemsFamiliarity with enterprise integration patterns, API management, data platforms, cloud-native architectures and secure-by-design practicesExperience defining reusable architecture patterns, decision records, reference models or governance approaches that help teams make better decisions at scaleUnderstanding of data product disciplines such as data quality, lineage, data governance, anonymisation and privacy-preserving approaches, and how they influence the commercial viability and responsible use of data productsExperience with API product management practices such as versioning, lifecycle management, deprecation, service levels, developer experience and partner onboardingAwareness of how modern AI, machine learning and generative AI capabilities can responsibly enable new data products, improve customer experiences, support operational efficiency and create commercial opportunitiesUnderstanding of TM Forum, TOGAF, BIAN or similar industry frameworks would be advantageous, especially where applied pragmatically rather than followed mechanically