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Technical Lead / Solutions Architect
We are seeking an experienced Technical Lead / Solutions Architect to lead the design, development, and delivery of enterprise architecture solutions across a complex business systems environment.
Working within a large-scale organisation undergoing continued digital transformation, you will be responsible for defining architecture strategy, ensuring alignment between technology and business objectives, and providing technical leadership across a diverse portfolio of business-critical systems, applications, infrastructure services, and cloud-based platforms.
Alongside your architectural responsibilities, you will provide leadership and line management for a team of four technical specialists, supporting their development while driving the delivery of strategic technology initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise-scale business systems and technology solutions.
- Act as the principal technical authority for business applications, platforms, integrations, and supporting infrastructure across both on-premise and cloud environments.
- Develop architecture roadmaps that align technology investments with organisational objectives and digital transformation programmes.
- Ensure solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, and adaptable to evolving business requirements.
- Define and maintain architecture standards, governance frameworks, policies, and technical documentation.
- Review project and change initiatives to ensure alignment with strategic architecture principles and long-term technology goals.
- Provide technical leadership across enterprise applications, identity services, security architecture, integrations, and infrastructure platforms.
- Identify opportunities to optimise systems, improve service delivery, reduce costs, and maximise value from technology investments.
- Support the adoption of cloud, managed, and hosted services where appropriate.
- Contribute to business cases, technology strategies, and operational planning activities.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the organisation to understand business requirements and translate them into effective technical solutions.
- Ensure all solutions incorporate appropriate levels of security, performance, resilience, accessibility, and compliance.
- Lead service transition, quality assurance, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Work closely with senior technology leaders, project teams, suppliers, and governance boards.
- Provide day-to-day leadership, mentoring, and line management for a team of four technical professionals.
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About You
You will bring a strong combination of enterprise architecture expertise, technical leadership experience, and excellent stakeholder management skills.
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Essential Experience
- Extensive experience as a Solutions Architect, Enterprise Architect, Technical Architect, or Technical Lead within a large and complex environment.
- Proven track record designing and delivering enterprise-scale business systems and application architectures.
- Experience across cloud and on-premise technology environments.
- Strong understanding of architecture frameworks, standards, and governance.
- Experience developing technology roadmaps and strategic architecture plans.
- Strong knowledge of infrastructure, applications, integrations, identity management, and security architecture.
- Experience leading technical teams and managing technical professionals.
- Ability to engage confidently with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and business analysis capabilities.
- Experience contributing to digital transformation and organisational change initiatives.
Desirable Experience
- Experience within Higher Education, Public Sector, or similarly complex organisations.
- Knowledge of enterprise systems such as ERP, HR, Finance, CRM, Service Management, Identity Management, Student Systems, or comparable business-critical platforms.
- Experience working with Technical Design Authorities or architectural governance boards.
- Understanding of sustainability and green IT principles.
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