Solution Architect

MFA Talent Services; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy in the UK is looking for a Solution Architect to drive digital transformation initiatives. This role requires strong design capabilities across cloud-native architectures, focusing on AWS, Azure, and GCP. The ideal candidate will engage with senior stakeholders, lead technical projects, and develop scalable solutions, implementing best practices in microservices and APIs. Candidates must have excellent communication skills and the ability to innovate in fast-paced environments. The position offers a hybrid working model, allowing flexibility between home and office.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of designing modern application and cloud architectures.
• Experience delivering architecture options and technology evaluations.
• Strong ability to engage with business and technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, secure, cloud-native architectures.
• Engage with stakeholders to translate requirements into solutions.
• Provide technical leadership to delivery and engineering teams.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and advocate when valuable.

Skills

Cloud architecture design

Integration architecture

Strong communication skills

Agile delivery

Microservices

DevOps practices

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Salesforce

Oracle

SAP

Job description

Solution Architect

Cloud, Integration & Modern Application Design

Location :

London, Manchester or Bristol (Hybrid 60% onsite)

Salary : £60,000

£95,000 + Bonus

This role requires the ability to gain SC Clearance

About the Role

This role offers the opportunity to operate as an end-to-end Solution Architect on major digital transformation initiatives, working directly with senior business and technology leaders. You’ll design and deliver modern, cloud-native, scalable architectures across AWS, Azure and GCP, applying engineering-led thinking and hands‑on technical depth to shape high-impact solutions for FTSE 100 clients.

You’ll act as a trusted technical advisor, defining solution options, guiding engineering teams, ensuring architectural integrity, and supporting clients from early discovery and conceptualisation through to delivery. You will also have access to modern training pathways, enterprise certifications, and a strong architecture community including multi‑cloud, integration, data, DevOps and application modernisation experts.

Key Responsibilities

Design scalable, secure, cloud-native architectures using modern application, integration and data patterns, ensuring alignment with business outcomes.

Engage with stakeholders across CXO, product, engineering, and delivery to translate requirements into robust architectural solutions.

Lead technical workshops, architecture reviews, and decision forums to ensure clarity, feasibility and alignment.

Produce and maintain architecture blueprints, option assessments, and design artefacts across all architectural domains.

Provide technical leadership to delivery and engineering teams, ensuring best practice in microservices, APIs, IaC, CI / CD, DevOps and cloud security.

Review solution designs, code approaches, and system performance to maintain engineering quality.

Stay current with emerging technologies (event-driven design, serverless, containers, AI / ML, data modernisation) and advocate where valuable.

Troubleshoot and resolve technical challenges during build and release phases.

Partner with DevOps teams to ensure seamless integration, automation and continuous delivery pipelines.

Support pre‑sales with architectural input, solution shaping, technical write‑ups, and client presentations.

Skills & Experience

The ideal candidate brings :

A proven track record designing modern application, integration and cloud architectures across complex environments.

Capability across multiple architecture domains with deeper expertise in at least one (application, cloud, integration, data, or platform).

Experience delivering architecture options, technology selections, and pattern evaluations for major programmes.

Ability to provide strategic architectural direction through roadmaps, target‑state design, modernisation pathways, and mentoring.

Practical understanding of Agile delivery and the architect’s role within multidisciplinary teams.

Strong communication skills with the ability to engage business and technical stakeholders.

Experience with cloud platforms (Azure essential; AWS / GCP desirable).

Exposure to a broad ecosystem of vendors and platforms such as Salesforce, Oracle, SAP, and modern SaaS solutions.

Appreciation for the commercial, organisational, people and delivery impacts of architectural decisions.

Emerging Domains

• Microservices vs packaged applications
• Event-driven and serverless architectures
• Multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud
• API-first and integration platforms
• IoT enablement

About the Consultancy

You’ll join a consultancy rapidly shaping the future of business transformation. They specialise in innovation, modern engineering practices, cloud-native architectures, and scaling digital capabilities, helping organisations reimagine their technology, culture and operating models.

Working alongside strategists, engineers, architects, designers and delivery experts, you’ll bring ideas to life from concept through to production, with the freedom to influence, innovate, and drive change.