Senior Solutions Architect & Tech Lead (Hybrid Role)

BT Group; Ipswich; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

10% on target annual bonus

Private GP 24/7

Carers leave 2 weeks

Maternity/Paternity/Adoption leave

BT product discounts

Pension scheme

Holiday purchase scheme

Job summary

BT Group's Secure Contracts unit seeks an experienced architect to set architecture direction and provide technical leadership across the engineering team, focusing on government contracts and sovereign product initiatives. The role blends hands-on delivery with architecture governance to support winning new business and guiding strategic technology choices.

You will lead technical discovery, shape scalable, secure designs, and ensure compliance with enterprise guardrails while mentoring

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and governing scalable, secure enterprise solutions.
• Ability to lead technical discovery workshops and capture requirements.
• Experience delivering within highly regulated environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Delivers deep technical and repeatable solutions that meet customer requirements.
• Guides stakeholders to conduct business and technical discovery.
• Creates robust proposals and scopes of work for group engagements.
• Develops repeatable architectures to resolve complex problems.
• Mentors solution architects and advocates architecture governance.
• Aligns with Enterprise Architecture guardrails and patterns.

Skills

Solution architecture

Enterprise Architecture

Technical leadership

Stakeholder management

Governance

Mentoring

Design authority

Security by design

Tools

Azure

AWS

CI/CD

Automation

Job description

BT Group's Secure Contracts unit seeks an experienced architect to set architecture direction and provide technical leadership across the engineering team, focusing on government contracts and sovereign product initiatives. The role blends hands-on delivery with architecture governance to support winning new business and guiding strategic technology choices.

You will lead technical discovery, shape scalable, secure designs, and ensure compliance with enterprise guardrails while mentoring