Solution Architect – lead

Silicon Logic UK Ltd.; Luton; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Silicon Logic UK Ltd. in Luton is seeking a Solution Architect to lead end-to-end design for Airline Operations, coordinating multiple product teams to deliver a coherent, scalable solution.

You will shape architecture across domains, establish guardrails, and ensure technical integrity while enabling fast delivery. The role requires 6–8 years in solution architecture, strong communication, and hands-on experience with domain-driven design, event-driven patterns, and cloud-native technologies

Qualifications

• 6–8 years of experience in solution architecture space
• Strong background in domain-driven design and event-driven architecture
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience leading end-to-end solutions across multiple teams or domains
• Exposure to airline operations is desirable
• Strong understanding of modern architecture (cloud-native AWS, microservices, APIs) and data models

Responsibilities

• Provide architecture leadership for a mission team, defining architecture vision and aligning product teams
• Shape end-to-end solutions across platforms and domains for consistency and alignment
• Establish guardrails, references, patterns, and reusable components
• Partner with Product Leads, Tech Leads and Delivery Leads to ensure cohesive design and delivery
• Ensure alignment with enterprise strategy, standards and reviews
• Identify cross-team dependencies and mitigate risks early
• Communicate decisions clearly to technical and business stakeholders
• Coach teams on architectural thinking and reusable patterns
• Define mission-level architecture scope and evolution roadmap
• Design cross-team integrations and data flows, resolving gaps early
• Provide clear direction to leadership and teams; communicate trade-offs and risks
• Lead governance activities and ensure solution assurance and compliance
• Align multiple products to shared design principles and contracts
• Champion architecture best practices including security, reliability and cost optimisation
• Contribute to maturing the solution architecture practice
• Familiarity with airline/transport operations systems is highly desirable
• Transform business requirements into IT solutions

Skills

Solution architecture

Domain-driven design

Event-driven architecture

Communication

Stakeholder mgmt

Agile delivery

AWS

Microservices

APIs

Team coaching

Airline ops

Canonical data models

Job description

• Work Mode : Hybrid, 2 - 3 days per week at Luton

The Role

We're looking for a Solution Architect to join our growing Solution Architecture team and lead the end-to-end solution design for one of our strategic missions in the Airline Operations domain. This is a pivotal role where you will shape how multiple product teams come together to deliver a coherent, scalable, and high-value solution.

You’ll work at the intersection of architecture, delivery, and product, providing solution direction, setting guardrails, and ensuring technical integrity while enabling teams to move fast and deliver impactful outcomes

Your 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.

Continuous Architecture Practice Improvement

• Contribute to shaping and maturing the solution architecture practice.
• Champion architecture best practice, including safety/security by design, operational excellence, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimisation, and sustainability.

Your Profile

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

• Lead SA who can handle large programs with good stakeholder management skills With at least 6 to 8 years’ experience in solution architecture space
• a strong solution architecture background, particularly in domain-driven design and event-driven architecture
• strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• experience working in mission/product delivery environment
• ideally exposure to airline operations, especially crew pairing and roster optimiser is desirable
• Demonstrable experience in leading end-to-end solutions spanning multiple teams or domains, ensuring that they meet business outcomes.
• Proven ability to work in agile, product-based or mission-led organisations product way of working
• Strong understanding of modern architecture (cloud native - AWS preferred, microservices, APIs, events, canonical data models).
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to influence architecture on a scale, from engineers to business leaders, by explaining technical solutions in clear, business-relevant terms.
• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills, able to assess trade-offs between time, cost and technical debts.
• Good understanding of strategic and emerging technology trends, and the practical application to evolving business models.
• Experience in coaching and developing technical teams on architecture thinking.
• Familiarity with airline or transport operations systems (crew, flight planning, disruption, scheduling) is highly desirable.
• Strong command in transforming business requirements into IT solutions