Solution Architect

The Associates Global; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT consulting firm is seeking an experienced Solutions Architect in London. The role involves designing efficient technology solutions and mentoring Technical Leads within a hybrid working environment. Candidates should have a strong background in architecting complex IT systems, excellent communication skills, and relevant certifications. This position offers an opportunity to shape technology delivery across critical business areas while contributing to a collaborative culture.

Qualifications

• Experience in high-volume transactional systems.
• Ability to engage both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Comfortable working in agile and traditional project environments.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end technology solutions aligned with strategic goals.
• Develop solution architectures that are efficient and scalable.
• Create architecture artefacts such as system designs and data flows.

Skills

Architecting complex IT solutions

Strong communication

Collaboration skills

Designing for cloud-native environments

Familiarity with Oracle and Microsoft

Education

Relevant certifications (e.g., TOGAF)

Tools

Modelling tools

APIs

Job description

Overview

Solutions Architect The Associates Global is seeking an experienced Solution Architect to join the Enterprise Architecture team of a well-established organisation undergoing major transformation. The company has very low staff turnover and the relatively newly stood up Architecture practise has excellent sponsorship from the top down. This is an opportunity to play a key role in shaping and supporting the delivery of effective, sustainable technology solutions across a diverse and business-critical environment.

This Hybrid role (2 days in) in London will require you to be an excellent communicator with natural gravitas. Your stakeholders will cut across the organisation (including SLT) as well as external providers. You will use your experience to help shape a business that is exciting and uplifting in what they do.

Working alongside enterprise architects, engineers, and business leaders, you\'ll ensure that solutions are scalable, strategically aligned, and grounded in real-world delivery. You\'ll also mentor Technical Leads, providing architectural guardrails while enabling autonomy and innovation across the CIO function.

The Opportunity

As a Solution Architect, you will be responsible for translating functional and non-functional requirements into robust architecture designs that align with broader enterprise strategy and architectural principles. Your work will directly influence the successful implementation of systems across digital, data, and operational domains.

You\'ll operate in a collaborative and forward-thinking Enterprise Architecture team that supports a wide technology stack spanning Oracle, Microsoft, Salesforce, and MuleSoft, across both cloud and on-premise platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end technology solutions that align with strategic goals and architectural standards


• Develop solution architectures that are efficient, scalable, and practical to implement


• Collaborate with Technical Leads, providing mentoring, guidance, and support to enable high-quality, independent delivery


• Create architecture artefacts, including system designs, data flows, integration models, and technical specifications


• Ensure architectural outputs support delivery across both agile and waterfall project environments


• Contribute to the development and maintenance of architecture principles, patterns, and templates


• Support the evolution and governance of architectural practices and standards

Skills and Experience

• Demonstrated experience architecting and delivering complex IT solutions in a pragmatic, business-aligned way


• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical audiences


• Background in high-volume transactional systems and modernising or replacing legacy platforms


• Experience designing for cloud-native environments and migrating workloads to the cloud


• Familiarity with Oracle, Microsoft, cloud platforms, APIs, and web services


• Knowledge of architectural practices such as layered abstraction, stakeholder mapping, and the use of modelling tools


• Experience operating within architecture governance frameworks


• Comfortable working across both agile and traditional project environments


• Relevant certifications such as TOGAF, ArchiMate, Azure Architect, or MuleSoft Architect are highly desirable

If you are a Solutions Architect looking to work on major transformation in a business that is collaborative by nature and where you are truly valued as an individual, then this is definitely a role worth considering.

Having worked with this business for a number of years and placing people across the organisation, it is very evident that their culture is brilliant. Their work environment is demanding insofar as taking on technical challenges and requiring people to deliver collaboratively and they celebrate their wins as a team rather than a promotion race