Senior Solution Architect

Key areas of responsibility

• Provide senior architectural oversight and assurance of solution designs.
• Hold the delivery partner to account for technical decisions, ensuring alignment with agreed architectural principles, standards, and integration requirements.
• Provide authoritative technical guidance on hosting, access, and design documentation to ensure interoperability and effective integration across the customer environment.
• Support delivery by engaging with a broad range of customer stakeholders, providing clear technical direction and resolving complex architectural issues.
• Lead technical governance and assurance across both design and live service, ensuring architectural integrity over time.
• Investigate and assess hosting options across the customer landscape, understanding constraints, capabilities, and trade-offs.
• Interpret user requirements and translate them into coherent architectural solutions that balance performance, risk, and delivery constraints.
• Evaluate technologies and solutions across the wider customer environment, recommending appropriate architectural patterns and approaches.
• Identify, assess, and manage technical risks, ensuring they are clearly understood, communicated, and mitigated.
• Support the development and operation of governance frameworks, standards, and assurance artefacts to enable consistent and repeatable delivery.

Key skills, experience and behaviours

• Demonstrable experience operating as a Senior Solutions Architect or equivalent in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Proven ability to lead architectural assurance and governance across supplier-delivered systems.
• Broad technical understanding across hosting, integration, networking, and service architecture.
• Experience translating user needs into coherent architectural solutions.
• Ability to operate at enterprise level, influencing senior stakeholders and setting technical direction.
• Experience identifying and managing technical risks across the lifecycle.
• Strong communication skills, able to clearly articulate complex technical concepts, risks, and trade-offs.

• Experience working in secure, regulated, or government environments.
• SFIA Level 6 capability in Architecture or Solution Design.
• Experience operating in a client-side assurance or governance role.
• Familiarity with service governance and live service assurance models.
• Experience working alongside data, security, or platform architects.
• Knowledge of common architecture frameworks and patterns used in large-scale systems.

• You are confident setting technical direction and making decisions that shape long-term outcomes.
• You bring clarity and structure to complex problems, helping teams move forward with confidence.
• You challenge constructively and are comfortable holding suppliers to account while maintaining strong working relationships.
• You understand how systems operate end-to-end, and consider integration, failure modes, and operational impact in your decisions.
• You balance governance with delivery, ensuring that standards are upheld without slowing progress unnecessarily.

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