Solutions Architect

Thames Water Utilities Limited; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Solutions Architect to drive the design and implementation of innovative solutions. This role involves leading projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring alignment with organizational standards. The successful candidate will have a strong background in architecture frameworks and excellent communication skills. Join a forward-thinking company that values diversity and offers a supportive environment for personal and professional growth. With competitive salary and benefits, this is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact in a vital sector.

Benefits

Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year

Generous Pension Scheme

Private Medical Health Care

Health and Wellbeing Benefits

Cycle to Work Scheme

Shopping Vouchers

Life Assurance

Qualifications

• Lead projects from an architectural perspective with governance.
• Experience in agile and waterfall environments.

Responsibilities

• Deliver solution architectures and designs throughout their lifecycle.
• Create architectural designs to guide solution development.

Skills

Project Leadership

Agile Methodologies

Waterfall Methodologies

TOGAF

ArchiMate

High-Level Programming

BPMN

Communication Skills

Education

Degree Level Education

Job description

Job title: Solutions Architect
Ref: 39413
Division: Digital Transformation
Location: Hybrid - Clearwater Court - RG1 8DB
Contract type: Permanent
Full/Part-time: Full-time
Salary: Competitive salary of up to £90,000 per annum depending on experience
Job grade: C
Closing date: 18/04/2025

A key part of the role will be to ensure we make progress on our key issues, whilst keeping solutions aligned to organization and industry standards and with other programs for which a seamless collaboration with your team and with other Architects across Thames Water is fundamental.

As well as designing solutions, you’ll also play your part in driving forward the adoption and maintenance of our enterprise repository which holds all of our IT design and reference information.

What you’ll be doing as a Solutions Architect

• Understand the problem space: delivery of solution architectures and designs through their full lifecycle
• Understand the business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) determine solution designs to drive the targeted business outcomes
• Creating architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development across products, services, projects, and systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information
• Facilitate the evaluation and selection of solution options, software product standards and services
• Supporting product managers in product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services, or systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information
• Using your experience on projects to suggest and implement changes to our modelling environment to better support the needs of our various stakeholders
• Create and maintain the architecture models and related reference data in our enterprise repository as part of your normal project tasks

Base Location: Hybrid – Clear Water Court Reading

Working Pattern: 36 hours Monday to Friday

Other demand: We are looking for 3 x Solution Architects

What you should bring to the role

• Being able to lead a project from an architecture perspective, ensuring that all decisions that are architecturally relevant can be taken following the appropriate governance
• Experience of working in both waterfall and agile environments
• Practical experience using an architecture framework such as TOGAF or ArchiMate
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Educated to degree level or the equivalent
• Experience with programming in a high-level language
• Some exposure to process modelling, for example in BPMN

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary of up to £90,000 per annum depending on experience
• Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service (Plus bank holidays)
• Generous Pension Scheme through AON
• Private Medical Health Care
• Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.

We’re the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people and the planet to thrive. It’s a big job and we’ve got a long way to go, so we need help from passionate and skilled people, committed to making a difference and getting us to where we want to be in the years and decades to come.

Thames Water is a unique, rewarding and diverse place to work, where every day you can make a difference, yet no day is the same. As part of our family, you’ll enjoy fast-tracked career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and excellent benefits.

Whether you’re interested in a role in one of our call centres or science labs, we’re looking for people like you with real passion and a burning desire to make things better.

So, if you’re looking for a sustainable and successful career where you can make a daily difference to millions of people’s lives while helping to protect the world of water for future generations, we’ll be here to support you every step of the way. Together, we can build a better future for our customers, our region and our planet.

Real purpose, real support, real opportunities. Come and join the Thames Water family. Why choose us? Learn more.

Our overarching aim is to ensure that Thames Water is great, diverse and inclusive place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process. Our aim is to remove any real or perceived barriers to success, so if you need assistance, we’re here to help and support.

When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business, meet colleagues and earn some extra money along the way.

Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.