IT

Solution Architect

Location: Birmingham (Hybrid)
Salary: £70,000 - £90,000

TechNET IT has partnered with a leading organisation in the professional services industry, a well-established organisation of significant scale, to recruit a talented Solution Architect.

Role Purpose

You will be responsible for designing, describing, and supporting the delivery of solutions for change programmes of varying size and complexity. This includes ensuring that solutions are aligned with business requirements, delivering effective use of technology to achieve strategic goals, and driving innovation across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and evaluate multiple solution options, providing informed recommendations based on analysis.

• Translate business requirements into comprehensive architectural designs, including supporting documentation and risk mitigation.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure feasibility, manage expectations, and provide technical leadership.

• Maintain architectural documentation and create reusable assets using modelling tools.

• Monitor solution architecture to ensure ongoing alignment with business needs, supporting governance, and managing risks and technical debt.

Expected Outcomes

• Clear, data-driven recommendations that enable informed decision-making.

• Solutions that align with both business and technical requirements.

• Timely and budget-conscious delivery of high-quality solutions.

• Effective mitigation of architectural and delivery risks.

• Strong stakeholder alignment and buy-in.

• Maintained documentation and reusable architectural assets to support consistency across projects.

Experience & Skills Required

• Strong experience with public cloud platforms (e.g., Microsoft Azure), Microsoft Dynamics (CE and FO), APIs, microservices, and integration approaches.

• Exposure to digital experience platforms (ideally Adobe Experience Manager) and collaboration tools (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jira).

• Excellent problem-solving ability with a structured approach to exploring complex challenges.

• Ability to communicate clearly and influence stakeholders, building trusted relationships at all levels.

• Relevant architecture experience, with practical expertise and/or certification in Microsoft Dynamics and Microsoft Azure (essential).

• Own the technical vision and long-term architecture for the core platform that powers consumer apps and internal tooling.
• Build and evolve scalable, secure and maintainable platform services that accelerate product squads and improve developer productivity.
• Lead and mentor engineering managers and senior engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, high quality and career growth.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, QA and executive leadership to ensure engineering delivery aligns with business outcomes.
• Improve developer experience, remove blockers to delivery and raise technical standards across the organisation.
• Ensure a reliable, secure, and high performing platform as it scales.

• Senior software engineering leader (Director / Head of Engineering) with demonstrable experience leading multiple engineering teams.
• Extensive experience in platform architecture, distributed systems and building scalable, maintainable services.
• Proven track record of growing high-performing teams and developing engineering leaders.
• Excellent collaboration and stakeholder management skills; able to translate business needs into technical strategy.

• Experience with cloud-native platforms, APIs and web/mobile frameworks.
• Prior exposure to regulated industries (banking, pharmaceuticals, healthcare or other regulated sectors) is a plus.
• German language skills and experience working across multi-lingual, multi-cultural teams would be advantageous.
• Masters degree in related discipline

• Degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or similar discipline
• Extensive experience in software engineering with at least 3 years in senior engineering leadership roles.

• The chance to make a visible impact in a high-growth business focused on improving lives.
• Hybrid working, flexible arrangements and a home working allowance.
• Constant training and professional development.
• Competitive salary and benefits package

• Monitor and maintain cloud infrastructure to ensure peak performance.
• Respond to alerts and resolve issues in collaboration with internal teams and datacentre colleagues.
• Support customer queries within agreed SLAs, escalating where required.
• Design and implement infrastructure changes as well as new cloud projects.
• Manage day-to-day operations including OS patches, upgrades, backups, and monitoring.
• Carry out Disaster Recovery testing and maintain data integrity.
• Uphold high standards of security and compliance across all environments.
• Proactively identify risks and prevent downtime.

• Strong knowledge of private and public cloud technologies.
• Proven experience in infrastructure engineering and system operations.
• Confidence in troubleshooting, problem-solving, and supporting business-critical systems.
• The ability to explain technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences.