Solutions Architect

Founderr Ltd; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Founderr Ltd in the United Kingdom seeks a senior solution architect to balance strategic design with stakeholder persuasion. You will set high-level design options and govern how SaaS and suppliers fit the target architecture while migrating a large legacy integration estate to a modern cloud platform.

The role sits in a small architecture team and offers hybrid working with some office days in Yorkshire. You’ll influence roadmaps and investment decisions across data, application, technology

Qualifications

• Track record of influencing senior non-technical stakeholders
• Established solution architecture experience at HLD level
• Breadth across data, application, technology and security architecture

Responsibilities

• Set high-level design options and records; engineers handle detailed design
• Governing how suppliers and SaaS fit target architecture
• Shape migration of legacy integration estate to a modern cloud platform
• Support new system selections from an architectural perspective
• Collaborate with senior leaders on roadmaps and investment planning

Skills

Stakeholder influence

HLD architecture

Data architecture

Application architecture

Technology architecture

Security architecture

Education

TOGAF or equivalent certification

BCS architecture certification

Tools

Microsoft Azure

Dynamics 365

Power Platform

Azure Service Bus

Job description

Half this job is architecture. The other half is convincing senior stakeholders that you're right, and bringing them with you.

£75 - £80k, permanent, hybrid with a few days a month at the office in Yorkshire. A senior solution architect seat at a large national not-for-profit, fully cloud and Microsoft-led, where new regulation means the architecture work matters now.

What's in it for you

• A senior seat in a small architecture team, reporting to the Head of Architecture
• Real breadth: data, application, technology and security across a large SaaS-heavy estate
• Influence on roadmaps and investment, not just project designs
• Work with a purpose: the systems you shape support frontline services for the public

What you'll be doing

• Setting the high-level design, options and decision records, with engineers owning detailed design and build
• Governing how suppliers and SaaS products fit the target architecture
• Shaping the move of a large legacy integration estate onto a modern cloud platform
• Supporting new system selections from an architecture perspective
• Working with senior business and technology leaders on roadmaps and investment planning

What you'll need

• A track record of influencing senior non-technical stakeholders and winning support for a recommended approach
• Established solution architecture experience at HLD level, setting design for others to build
• Breadth across data, application, technology and security architecture, rather than depth in a single stack

Useful, not essential

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure and the wider Microsoft estate
• An architectural view of Dynamics 365 and Power Platform
• Integration architecture, particularly Azure Service Bus or similar
• TOGAF, BCS or equivalent architecture certification
• Experience in the public sector, not-for-profit or another regulated environment