Technical Architect

Founderr; Bradford; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work with flexibility

Job summary

Founderr is seeking a solution architect to own high-level design across applications and integrations, shaping a modern Azure-based integration strategy within a greenfield transformation.

You will define architecture principles, guardrails, and collaborate with SMEs and engineering to ensure coherent solutions across the estate. Hybrid work with flexibility is offered.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a solution or applications architect at high-level design level.
• Strong Microsoft/Azure background with modern integration judgement.
• Experience moving from legacy integration to service-oriented architecture.
• Ability to define architecture and brief engineers without getting into weeds.

Responsibilities

• Own high-level design across applications and integration.
• Define a modern integration approach on Azure.
• Set principles and guardrails for engineering delivery.
• Collaborate with SMEs and wider architecture to keep solutions coherent.

Skills

High-level design

Architectural leadership

Stakeholder alignment

Communication

Cloud strategy

Education

TOGAF certification

BCS Solution Architecture

Tools

Azure

API management

TOGAF

Job description

A new architecture function, built from the ground up, at the start of a multi-year technology transformation.

This is solution-architect altitude: high-level design and blueprints that set the direction, with engineering teams building within your guardrails. Design and ownership, not hands-on code, and not maintaining someone else's legacy.

What is in it for you

• £75,000 to £85,000 depending on experience, plus benefits
• Hybrid, with flexibility
• A genuinely greenfield remit: you help define how modern applications and integration architecture is done here, rather than inherit it

The organisation

We are partnering with a mission-led organisation partway through a significant, multi-year technology transformation. It is building out a modern Azure estate and a new architecture capability to steer it, and this is one of the first hires into that function.

What you will be doing

• Own high-level design across applications and integration, turning business and data drivers into clear, deliverable architecture
• Define a modern integration approach on Azure, moving away from legacy point-to-point patterns towards a managed, controlled layer
• Set the principles and guardrails engineers work within, then assure delivery against them
• Work alongside subject matter experts, engineering and wider architecture to keep solutions coherent across the estate

What you will need

• A genuine solution or applications and integration architect, comfortable at high-level design and blueprint level
• Strong Microsoft and Azure background, with modern integration judgement: knowing the tools in the kit, picking the right one, and understanding how it is managed and controlled
• Experience moving an organisation off legacy integration towards a modern, service-oriented approach
• The credibility to define architecture, brief engineers and assure delivery without getting into the weeds

Useful, not essential

• BCS Solution Architecture certification or TOGAF
• API management and event-driven integration patterns in a Microsoft context