Solutions Architect

Peaple Talent; Swindon; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Peaple Talent is partnering with a leading organisation undergoing significant investment in its technology landscape. They’re seeking an experienced Solution Architect in Swindon to shape and deliver technology solutions supporting the wider strategy, balancing functionality, security, performance, cost and long-term sustainability.

You’ll collaborate with business stakeholders, BA teams, and external partners, produce pragmatic designs, contribute to governance, and help raise standards and

Qualifications

• Experience as a Solution Architect across complex technology environments.
• Strong cloud experience, preferably Microsoft Azure.
• Expertise in API integration, messaging, Service Bus and asynchronous patterns.
• Designing event-driven solutions, serverless functions and cloud storage.
• Familiarity with TOGAF or similar architecture methodologies.
• Proficiency with ArchiMate or similar modelling.
• Strong business analysis, requirements gathering and process modelling.
• Experience leading architecture projects, governance and design assurance.
• Excellent stakeholder management; able to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Ability to evaluate technology options balancing cost, risk, performance, scalability and long-term support.

Responsibilities

• Translate business problems into pragmatic, scalable technology solutions.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, BA teams, technical teams and partners.
• Produce solution designs and contribute to architecture governance.
• Assess options and shape standards and best practices across the organisation.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Azure

API Integration

Event-driven design

TOGAF

ArchiMate

Stakeholder Mgmt

Business Analysis

Architecture Governance

Cost & Performance trade-offs

Tools

Sparx EA

Dynamics CRM

Power Platform

Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft 365

Job description

Peaple Talent is partnering with a leading organisation undergoing significant investment across its technology landscape and digital capabilities. They’re looking for an experienced Solution Architect to help shape and deliver technology solutions that support the organisation’s wider strategy.

This is a broad architecture role where you’ll work closely with business stakeholders, BA teams, technical teams and external partners. You’ll be responsible for taking business problems and requirements through to pragmatic, scalable solutions, while balancing functionality, security, performance, cost and long-term sustainability.

You’ll also play an important role in architecture governance, producing solution designs, assessing different options and helping shape standards and best practice across the organisation.

What You'll Bring:

• Strong experience working as a Solution Architect across complex technology environments
• Good experience with public cloud, ideally Microsoft Azure
• Strong understanding of integration architecture, including APIs, messaging, Service Bus, batch processing and synchronous/asynchronous patterns
• Experience designing solutions using event-driven architecture, serverless functions and cloud storage
• Experience with TOGAF or a similar architecture methodology
• Experience with ArchiMate or structured architecture modelling
• Strong business analysis, requirements gathering and business process/capability modelling experience
• Experience leading projects from an architecture and technical perspective, including architecture governance and design assurance
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences
• Experience evaluating technology options and balancing cost, risk, performance, scalability and long-term support

Nice to Have:

• Microsoft Dynamics CRM / Business Central
• Microsoft Power Platform
• Microsoft Fabric
• Microsoft 365
• Experience using Sparx Enterprise Architect
• Background working across large, complex or multi-site organisations
• Experience overseeing third-party technical resources or delivery partners
• A continuous improvement mindset, with a focus on simplifying processes and creating reusable architecture patterns