Solutions Architect

Sovereign Network Group; Basingstoke, Wembley; Hybrid; GBP 68,000 - 82,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Sovereign Network Group is seeking a Solution Architect to join our IT team on a hybrid basis, combining home and office work. The role involves leading architectural design, creating blueprints, and ensuring alignment with strategic goals across platforms, data, and security.

You will collaborate with governance forums, product owners and analysts, driving value through reuse, optimisation, and robust technical decisions in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in enterprise and solution architecture.
• Knowledge of architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF).
• Expertise in SaaS platforms, application integration, and APIs.
• Understanding of DevOps/SecOps practices and agile development.
• Strong consultancy and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Commercial awareness and a focus on value delivery.

Responsibilities

• Leading the design and development of architectural solutions across platforms.
• Creating and maintaining architectural blueprints and technical documentation.
• Ensuring solutions align with company goals and technology standards through participation in the Technical Design Authority (TDA).
• Collaborating with other architects to define end-to-end designs, covering systems, data, integration, and security.
• Identifying opportunities for optimisation and technology reuse, as well as supporting the evaluation and selection of new products and technologies.
• Working with business stakeholders, product owners and business analysts to understand functional and non-functional requirements and interact with other cross-functional teams.
• Attending and contributing to technology governance forums and strategic planning discussions.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Solution architecture

Stakeholder engagement

DevOps/SecOps knowledge

Agile development

Commercial awareness

Tools

TOGAF

APIs & SaaS integration

Data security concepts

Job description

Salary: £67,500.00 - £82,000.00 Per year

Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for digital transformation and solution design? Sovereign Network Group (SNG) is looking for a Solution Architect to join our IT team.

You'll take a hybrid approach working from home and in the office 2 days per week, and you can be based either from our Basingstoke or Wembley office. With occasional travel between our offices.

Main Responsibilities

• Leading the design and development of architectural solutions across platforms
• Creating and maintaining architectural blueprints and technical documentation
• Ensuring solutions align with company goals and technology standards through participation in the Technical Design Authority (TDA).
• Collaborating with other architects to define end-to-end designs, covering systems, data, integration, and security
• Identifying opportunities for optimisation and technology reuse, as well as supporting the evaluation and selection of new products and technologies
• Working with business stakeholders, product owners and business analysts to understand functional and non-functional requirements and interact with other cross-functional teams
• Attending and contributing to technology governance forums and strategic planning discussions

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong experience in enterprise and solution architecture
• Knowledge of architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF)
• Expertise in SaaS platforms, application integration, and APIs
• Understanding of DevOps/SecOps practices and agile development
• Strong consultancy and stakeholder engagement skills
• Commercial awareness and a focus on value delivery

Job Description

We have some great benefits at SNG, including:

• 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays (with an extra day every year up to 30 days)
• Chance to buy or sell holiday as part of our flexible benefits package
• 3 additional wellbeing days and 2 paid volunteering days
• Generous matched pension scheme up to 12% and Life cover at 4x salary
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption pay
• Options for private medical insurance, dental insurance and critical illness cover
• Wellbeing discounts, including Gym Memberships and access to a 24/7 virtual GP service

At Sovereign Network Group, we are passionate about inclusion for all and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive. We are committed to our Equality Diversity and Inclusion strategy and believe that you can truly be yourself at SNG.

Take a look at our careers site to learn more about us and our values.

Our purpose is to provide good, affordable homes that are the foundation for a better life - and our vision is thriving communities, over generations. We provide over 85,000 homes and invest in communities across London, the South East, South West and East of England, as well as aiming to create thousands of new affordable homes every year.

Working for us is so much more than just a job. Whatever your role, you'll help us provide homes and services for those who need them - and make a real difference to people’s lives