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Solutions Architect
Solution Architect – Enterprise Architecture (EA) Role
The Solution Architect role sits within the Enterprise Architecture (EA) function and plays a key role in shaping and delivering technology solutions across the organisation.
About the Team
The Enterprise Architecture (EA) team is responsible for:
- Defining technology strategy and roadmaps
- Maintaining enterprise landscapes
- Producing solution architectures and technical designs for the organisation’s core systems
The team’s purpose is to enable an integrated, forward-looking, business-aligned enterprise architecture that:
- Promotes innovation
- Ensures strategic alignment
- Delivers scalable and sustainable value through technology
Acting as a bridge between business vision and technical execution, the team helps build a resilient, data-driven, and adaptable digital environment. The Solution Architect is central to achieving this mission.
The EA team oversees a broad technology estate, covering:
- Cloud and on-premise platforms
- Enterprise applications
- Integration technologies
- Data services
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Key Responsibilities
- Design end-to-end technology solutions that align with:
- Business requirements
- Enterprise strategy
- Architectural principles
- Standards, patterns, and roadmaps
- Ensure solutions are strategically aligned, fit for purpose, and fit for use
- Lead, guide, mentor, and support Technical Leads across the technology function, providing:
- Clear architectural guardrails
- Autonomy in solution delivery
- Produce solution architecture artefacts at the right level of detail, demonstrating:
- How requirements are fulfilled
- How solutions should be engineered
- Support Technical Leads in:
- Creating technical specifications
- Defining system architectures
- Designing interface diagrams
- Mapping data flows
- Identifying integration points
- Develop, maintain, and promote architectural artefacts, including:
- Standards
- Principles
- Patterns
- Templates
- Reference materials
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About You
- Strong influencing, collaboration, and presentation skills, with the ability to:
- Work effectively across functions
- Engage stakeholders at all levels (senior executives to delivery teams)
- Proven experience architecting and supporting complex technology solutions, including:
- Understanding of high-volume, transactional systems
- Analytical and problem-solving abilities, balancing:
- Technical considerations
- Business needs
- Experience with:
- Architectural ways of working, such as:
- Abstraction (conceptual, logical, physical layers)
- Architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF or equivalents)
- Patterns, principles, tooling, and stakeholder management
- Architectural ways of working, such as:
- Working within architecture governance frameworks
- A strong understanding of a wide range of technologies, including:
- Enterprise platforms
- Cloud services
- Databases
- APIs
- Web services
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