Solution Architect Specialist

BT Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus 10%

Private GP 24/7

Carers leave

Parental leave 18 weeks

BT product discounts

Pension 5% company 10% match

Holiday purchase scheme

Job summary

BT Group is seeking a Solution Architect Specialist in Manchester to independently drive solution architecture design and mapping of business requirements, enabling successful delivery and governance across multiple workstreams.

The role focuses on delivering architected solutions that align with enterprise patterns and guardrails while mentoring others and shaping long-term strategy in a busy transformation program.

Qualifications

• Develops architectures that fit within the enterprise architecture, information architecture and integration requirements.
• Defines the architecture, product design, modules, interfaces, and data to satisfy specified requirements.
• Develops message protocols that allow distributed elements of an application to communicate.

Responsibilities

• Delivers deep technical and repeatable solutions that achieve customer requirements driving positive outcomes.
• Guides partnerships with business and operational stakeholders to conduct business and technical discovery.
• Implements robust recommendations, proposals and scope of work documents for group engagements while identifying dependencies and gaps.
• Delivers innovative and repeatable solution architectures to resolve complex problems and meet requirements.
• Facilitates stakeholders' understanding of capabilities and the transformative power of group products and technology.
• Mentors team members to improve knowledge and collateral and aligns with guardrails.

Skills

Solution Architecture

System Design

APIs/Web Service Integration

Job description

Job Description

Job Title: Solution Architect Specialist

Req ID: 63184

Job Function: Architecture Solution and Design

Posting Start Date: 08/10/2026

Posting End Date: 16/10/2026

Division: Digital

Job Location: GBR-Manchester-New Bailey

Advertised Salary: Competitive with Benefits

Job Req ID:63184

Posting Date: 08/10/26

Function: Digital

Location: Manchester, London, Bristol, Leeds , Hybrid Working

SC CLEARANCE REQUIRED

About the role

The Solution Architect Specialist independently executes a range of workstreams in delivering the overall solution architecture design and mapping of business requirements, as well as organises smooth project delivery empowering the implementation of functional solutions that are fit for purpose and delivered against stated business requirements.

What you’ll be doing

• Delivers deep technical and repeatable solutions that achieve customer requirements driving positive outcomes.
• Guides partnerships with business and operational stakeholders to conduct business and technical discovery.
• Implements robust recommendations, proposals and scope of work documents for group engagements while also identifying critical dependencies and gaps.
• Delivers the creation of innovative and repeatable solution architectures to resolve a range of complex solution architecture problems and meet agreed requirements.
• Facilitates business stakeholders' understanding of capabilities and the transformative power of group products, services and technology.
• Drives the team culture of enhancing the solution architect team's knowledge, methodologies and customer-facing collateral.
• Executes alignment with Enterprise Architecture guardrails and solution patterns.
• Contributes to thought leadership and provides advice on a specific set of technologies to help senior leadership shape the long-term direction of solution architecture strategy.
• Delivers complex, strategic initiatives that are a part of the company's overall commercial strategy.
• Champions, continuously develops and shares with team knowledge on emerging trends and changes in solution architecture.
• Mentors other solution architects, helping to improve the team's abilities by acting as a technical resource.
• Act as the technical expert on architecture governance and design authority for development of products and services in line with the published roadmap.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Solution Architecture: Develops solutions which fit within the enterprise architecture in terms of information architecture, system portfolios and integration requirements.
• System Design: Defines the architecture, product design, modules, interfaces, and data for a system to satisfy specified requirements.
• APIs/Web Service Integration: Develops message protocols that allow distributed elements of an application to communicate.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Cloud Computing: Uses a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer.
• Solution Design: Designs the essential core building block's that make up a technical solution.
• Requirements gathering: Determines user expectations for a new or modified product.
• Product Roadmapping: Maps out the vision and strategic objectives for a product in a visual way, making it easier for development teams to share and collaborate.
• Regulatory Compliance: Develops, implements, and enforces compliance to activities which ensure the organisation meets legislative and regulatory requirements.

Our Package

Tailored benefits make a real difference. That’s why we offer a comprehensive range to support your growth, wellbeing, and everyday life. You can design the package to suit you and your lifestyle. Your core benefits include:

• 10% on target annual bonus
• Access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family
• Market-leading paid carers leave with up to 2 weeks off
• Equalized maternity, paternity, and adoption leave – 18 weeks’ full pay and 8 weeks’ half pay
• Discounted EE and BT products, including mobile and broadband
• Market leading Pension scheme – 5% from you and 10% from us
• Holiday purchase scheme

You can select additional benefits, including healthcare, dental, gym memberships and more when you’re ready. Ready to connect for good and help shape the future?

Join us at a pivotal moment for BT Business. We are executing a multi-year transformation to restore growth, modernise at scale and unlock new markets beyond connectivity. Our ambition is clear – return to sustainable revenue and EBITDA growth, strengthen our market position, and deliver meaningful shareholder value through disciplined execution and bold reinvention.

We are fundamentally reshaping the business – simplifying our portfolio, digitising our customer experience and building market-leading capability across cyber, AI and managed services, all powered by the UK’s leading fixed and mobile networks. This is a shift from a legacy connectivity provider to a modern, solutions-led, AI-first business that can truly differentiate in a competitive and fast-moving market.

With execution momentum building and a clear path to growth, the opportunity now is to scale what works, accelerate performance and fully realise our potential. This is about delivering against ambitious financial outcomes while transforming how we operate – creating a business that is simpler, faster, more innovative and easier to do business with.

If you want to be part of the team shaping the turnaround of a multi-billion-pound business – and building a stronger, more competitive BT for the future – this is your moment.