Solution Architect

BJSS; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology consultancy in the UK is seeking architects with extensive technical knowledge and experience. You will bridge the gap between clients and internal teams while leading the design of projects. Responsibilities include advising on cloud migration and data architectures, managing technical risks, and guiding agile delivery teams to ensure high-quality software products. The role offers a flexible working environment and various employee perks, including a health and wellbeing plan and training opportunities.

Benefits

Flexible benefits allowance

Health and wellbeing plan

Life Assurance (4 x annual salary)

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Hybrid working arrangement

Discounts from various brands

Referral scheme

Electric vehicle scheme

Training opportunities

Social calendar events

GymFlex membership programme

Qualifications

• Extensive experience within the technology industry and full lifecycle project experience.
• Hands-on experience with data principles and security best practices.
• Ability to lead agile delivery teams and guide architectural decisions.

Responsibilities

• Bridge the gap between client and internal teams.
• Lead design and assurance tasks in multi-vendor environments.
• Advise on data governance and shape architecture.

Skills

Technical knowledge

Communication skills

Agile methodologies

DevOps practices

Experience with public cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Job description

About the Role

We’re looking for architects with strong technical knowledge, full life‑cycle project experience and excellent communication skills to bridge the gap between client and engineering teams.

You’ll bring extensive experience operating within the technology industry across various ecosystems, including architectural styles such as microservices, modulith, serverless, and event-driven and data architectures. You'll be proficient in architectural patterns including CQRS, event sourcing, service mesh and the Saga pattern, amongst others.

You'll be flexible in the types of engagements undertaken - from leading the design of cutting‑edge greenfield platforms to performing Delivery Assurance tasks in multi‑vendor environments. This includes experience with agile methodologies, DevOps practices, and continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI / CD) pipelines.

You should be able to advise on data principles, governance, patterns, and technologies, and how these shape or support architectures you design. You’ll have hands‑on experience with public cloud services like AWS, Azure or GCP.

Additionally, you will possess a deep knowledge and focus on security and privacy, including best practices and regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA) and their applications in data platform implementations. This also encompasses experience with identity and access management (IAM), encryption, and data masking techniques.

These are the types of questions that you’ll be asked by our clients, your colleagues and yourself at BJSS :

How should our application and data architecture change and what supporting infrastructure do I need as we migrate to the Cloud?

How do we maintain conceptual integrity of our product design as it rapidly evolves?

How does a data platform support operational objectives and provide analytical insight to business users, whilst also supporting ML and Generative AI supported workloads at scale?

How can we quickly deliver the robust legacy system interfaces needed by our Agile development teams?

Which organisational design supports project delivery most appropriately?

BJSS has developed some of the most demanding systems around using the latest technologies and techniques – from the messaging hub that integrates the whole of the NHS, to an application that uses a leading‑edge AWS technology stack to underpin a great UX visualising the flightpaths of every plane in the world – as well as analysing huge quantities of data to improve fuel efficiency, reducing costs and environmental impact. Our architects have always been at the centre of our engagements, managing technical risk and creating real business value.

About You

As one of our Architects, you will use your broad technical knowledge, full lifecycle project experience and excellent communication skills to bridge the gap between client and internal delivery managers, enterprise architects, operations teams, UX consultants and developers.

Successful applicants should be able to evidence the following :

• Ability to be versatile, comfortable evaluating a new Open Source technology in a rapid technical spike, presenting to a CIO on a package selection, or working with a technical tester and a support desk engineer to debug a time‑critical P1 issue
• Confidently able to serve as a leader of an agile delivery organisation, you’ll ensure that Agile processes and Product focused lifecycles deliver the right value, at the right time. You’ll support in the definition of the application and data target state and will work pragmatically in overcoming constraints as the team moves towards that goal
• As a technical authority, you lead by example and inspire delivery teams to create great software products that demonstrate the art of the possible. You help in the creation of architectural decision making frameworks and support the organisations wider governance function. You mentor developers to ensure they see the wider picture and meet our exacting standards, while acknowledging the deep experience they bring from spending hours a day working on a codebase
• You enjoy working in the technology industry and are constantly adapting your skillset in line with industry trends
• You have energy and a pragmatic, delivery‑focused attitude that wins the respect of those around you and makes you a trusted technical advisor
• You’re willing, and capable of being hands‑on when you need to be
• You balance innovation and intellectual rigour with realism
• You love technology and want to keep on learning, with a genuine interest in understanding the challenges your users face and how you can help them

Some of the Perks

• Flexible benefits allowance – you choose how to spend your allowance (additional pension contributions, healthcare, dental and more)
• Industry leading health and wellbeing plan - we partner with several wellbeing support functions to cater to each individual's need, including 24 / 7 GP services, mental health support, and other
• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary)
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Hybrid working - Our roles are not fully remote as we take pride in the tight knit communities we have created at our local offices. But we offer plenty of flexibility and you can split your time between the office, client site and WFH
• Discounts – we have preferred rates from dozens of retail, lifestyle, and utility brands
• An industry‑leading referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals
• Flexible holiday buy / sell option
• Electric vehicle scheme
• Training opportunities and incentives – we support professional certifications across engineering and non‑engineering roles, including unlimited access to O’Reilly
• Giving back – the ability to get involved nationally and regionally with partnerships to get people from diverse backgrounds into tech
• You will become part of a squad with people from different areas within the business who will help you grow at BJSS
• We have a busy social calendar that you can choose to join– quarterly town halls / squad nights out / weekends away with families included / office get togethers
• GymFlex gym membership programme