Senior Solution Architect - Mission-Level Lead (Hybrid)

LA International; Luton; Hybrid; GBP 88,000 - 106,000; Full time

Job summary

LA International is seeking a Solution Architect - lead on a 12 month contract with extensions in the UK. The role is hybrid with 2-3 days onsite in Luton, offering £475-£575 per day via Umbrella.

The opportunity supports a world-leading program and requires senior architectural leadership across multiple product teams. You will shape end-to-end solutions, establish guardrails and patterns, and collaborate with Product, Tech and Delivery Leads to ensure alignment with enterprise strategy and

Qualifications

• 6–8 years in solution architecture
• Background in domain-driven design and event-driven architecture
• Strong communication and stakeholder management
• Experience in mission/product delivery environments
• Exposure to airline operations desirable

Responsibilities

• Provide architecture leadership for a product mission team, defining mission-level solution architecture and creating a clear architecture vision for product teams to align with.
• Shape the end-to-end solution across multiple product teams, platforms and technology domains, ensuring consistency and alignment.
• Establish solution guardrails, principles, reference architectures and patterns, identifying opportunities for reuse and optimisation, promoting architecture best practices.
• Partner with Product Leads, Tech Leads and Delivery Leads to ensure cohesive solution design and delivery.
• Align solutions with long-term enterprise strategy, architecture principles and standards.
• Identify and resolve cross-team solution dependencies and integration risks early.
• Communicate architecture and solution decisions clearly to both technical and business stakeholders.
• Coach teams on architectural thinking, reusable patterns and design approaches.
• Defining & owning end-to-end solution architecture
• Define the mission level architecture vision, scope and evolution roadmap, ensuring the solution meets mission outcomes, customer needs, and business objectives.
• Design cross-team integrations, shared components, and data flows, identifying and resolving solution risks, dependencies, and architectural gaps early.
• Provide clear solution architecture direction to Tech Leads, Product Leads, and Delivery Leads.
• Communicate solution decisions, trade-offs, and risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Lead architecture governance activities to ensure solution assurance and compliance.
• Align solutions with enterprise strategy, architecture principles and standards, collaborating with IT Architecture team on architectural reviews, exceptions and guidance.
• Define solution guardrails, principles, reference architectures and patterns, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and operability.
• Align multiple products to shared design principles, patterns, and integration contracts, ensuring product-level designs fit into a cohesive mission-level architecture.

Skills

Architect leadership

Domain-driven design

Event-driven architecture

Stakeholder management

Cloud native (AWS)

Microservices

Agile / product delivery

Effective communication

Coaching teams

Tools

AWS

REST APIs

Job description

LA International is seeking a Solution Architect - lead on a 12 month contract with extensions in the UK. The role is hybrid with 2-3 days onsite in Luton, offering £475-£575 per day via Umbrella.

The opportunity supports a world-leading program and requires senior architectural leadership across multiple product teams. You will shape end-to-end solutions, establish guardrails and patterns, and collaborate with Product, Tech and Delivery Leads to ensure alignment with enterprise strategy and