Royal British Legion
Solutions Architect
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Role: Solution Architect
Location: London, Haig House, with hybrid working
Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time
Hours: 35 hours per week
Salary: £55,548 to £60,458 per annum inclusive of London Supplement
Are you passionate about designing technology that delivers real impact? We have an opportunity for a Solution Architect to help shape our future, designing secure, scalable and user-centred solutions to improve our services, ways of working, and ability to serve the Armed Forces community.
Here at the Royal British Legion, we are currently embarking on an exciting new phase with our Customer, Technology and Change directorate. Together this team, covering Technology, Data Protection, Business Planning, and Change & Transformation, takes great pride in supporting across RBL with all things technology, security, digital, data, business planning, portfolio and project management, and change. It’s a great time to join as our organisation begins to drive our new 10-year strategy and ensures we are best able to continue to make a difference to our Armed Forces community now and for the future.
This newly created role will see you work across the organisation to translate strategic objectives into practical technology solutions. You will provide architectural expertise across a range of change, transformational and operational initiatives, ensuring new systems and services align with our technology roadmap, architectural standards, and long-term vision.
Working closely with business leaders, product owners, technical teams, and senior stakeholders, you'll play a key role in guiding technology decisions, evaluating solutions, managing architectural risks. This will ensure our technology landscape remains modern, sustainable, and fit for the future.
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Come and be part of the leading Armed Forces charity, making a difference to the lives of those who have served to keep us safe and protect our way of life.
Reporting to our Head of Design and Architecture, key responsibilities will include:
- Leading the end-to-end solution design of products, platforms, and technology initiatives across the organization
- Developing and maintaining technology roadmaps and artefacts to support organizational priorities, transformation objectives, and architecture practices
- Working closely with product owners and stakeholders to understand business goals, user needs, and technical requirements
- Providing architectural guidance throughout the product and project lifecycles
- Supporting transformation programmes and help modernise legacy technology environments
- Championing best practice in architecture, DevOps, automation, and modern engineering approaches
You will be contracted to our Haig House hub with a minimum expectation of two days per week working in person at the hub and flexibility for working remotely/at home when not onsite.
Employee benefits include:
- 28 day’s paid holiday (plus bank holidays) increasing with service, with optional annual leave purchase scheme of up to 5 working days
- Enhanced paid maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
- Generous pension scheme with employer contributions ranging from 6% to 14%, depending on length of service
- Range of flexible working options may be available, depending on your role
- Employee Assistance Programme providing confidential counselling, financial, and legal advice
- Range of courses delivered by learning specialists to support your development goals and objectives
- Opportunities to volunteer
- Travel loans, Cycle to Work, and more!
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For more detailed information about the role, please see the Job Description attached to our direct advert. Our teams take a personalised approach to shortlisting, which is carried out without the use of AI and is based on the evidence provided in your application against the essential and desirable criteria in the Person Specification.
RBL is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive organisation, reflecting the diversity of the armed forces community and of wider society. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and personal characteristics.
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer interview schemes for candidates who declare an Armed Forces connection and/or a disability. However, candidates are only eligible for this scheme if their application clearly demonstrates that they meet all of the essential criteria listed in the Person Specification for the role.
Interview Dates: week commencing 14th September
We may close this vacancy early if we believe we have enough strong applications to be able to successfully fill the role. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.
If you require the job advert or job description in an alternative format, please contact 0808 802 8080.
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