Solution Architect
Solution Architect
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Job Description
About Us:
About Us: Solirius Reply delivers technical consultancy and application delivery to our clients in order to solve real world problems and allow our clients to respond to an ever-changing technical landscape. We partner closely with our clients embedding our consultants into their businesses in order to provide a bespoke service allowing us to truly understand our clients needs.
It is this close collaboration with our clients that has enabled us to grow rapidly in recent years and will drive our ambitious future growth plans. We currently have over 250 consultants working with a variety of key clients from both the public and private sectors such as the Ministry of Justice Department for Education FCDOS UEFA International Olympic Committee and Mercedes Benz; with plans to increase our client base further in the near future.
We operate as a flat organisation and believe in trusting and supporting our team to operate independently. We pride ourselves on being specialists at what we do making the most of our consultants expertise in their fields to provide a best-in-class service to our clients. All our consultants have the opportunity to work on a range of different projects providing a broad range of knowledge on which to develop their careers and progress in the direction they choose
About You:
You are a motivated and adaptable professional with a strong analytical mindset and a passion for using technology to solve real-world problems. You enjoy working in collaborative agile teams and take pride in delivering high-quality solutions that make a tangible impact. With strong communication skills and a consultative approach youre comfortable engaging with clients understanding their needs and translating them into effective outcomes. You understand and align with Solirius Reply Values.
The Role:
We are looking for experienced Solution Architects to work on our projects with our public sector clients helping to deliver Solirius services to the highest standard.
The role will involve working with multiple business stakeholders helping them to design business solutions which will then be implemented by the delivery teams.
As a Solution Architect you will be expected to operate with a high degree of autonomy using your experience and judgement to resolve complex technical and architectural challenges in alignment with client needs. You will proactively manage escalations and take ownership of delivering effective scalable and secure solutions.
Successful candidates will also be expected to take an active role in practice development: developing new services to help with Solirius business development - creating and updating new architecture artefacts liaising with the other Solirius practices to maintain practice profile and contributing to the development of more junior practice members.
In addition to technical leadership you will play a key role in identifying and shaping new business opportunities working closely with stakeholders across client organisations to understand strategic objectives and deliver value-driven outcomes.
You must be a strong and confident communicator capable of influencing both technical and non-technical audiences. You will lead and mentor technical teams build consensus across diverse stakeholder groups and foster collaborative cross-functional working environments.
Your role will require innovative thinking applying best practices and emerging technologies to solve complex business problems in creative and pragmatic ways.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities:
- Design end-to-end solution architectures that meet business technical and security requirements.
- Translate business and technical requirements into scalable secure and cost-effective designs.
- Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture technology strategy and governance standards.
- Lead architecture reviews and technical design workshops with stakeholders and delivery teams.
- Support Agile delivery teams defining MVP architecture and providing ongoing technical direction.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across business product and IT to gain buy-in and drive decisions.
- Define integration patterns APIs and data flows between systems and services.
- Contribute to DevOps automation and infrastructure-as-code practices for delivery at scale.
- Ensure security compliance and risk management are embedded in the solution.
- Produce clear architectural documentation using standards like C4 Archimate or cloud-native diagrams. Creating high-level Level Designs and relevant architecture artifacts.
Key Experience:
- Extensive experience in stakeholder engagement and senior-level communication including C-suite.
- Proven experience in client-facing and/or consultancy environments.
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex business and functional requirements into scalable and resilient technology architectures.
- Strong track record in designing and delivering end-to-end data and application architectures in enterprise settings.
- Expertise in conceptual logical and physical architecture modelling.
- Deep understanding of large-scale distributed systems and integration patterns.
- Ability to design solutions that meet both functional and non-functional requirements including performance scalability security and compliance.
- Broad experience with system security operating systems cloud infrastructure and enterprise data management.
Key Skills:
- Advanced knowledge of cloud platforms: Microsoft 365 Azure AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Hands-on experience with programming languages such as Java .NET Python or equivalent.
- Microservices architecture and containerization.
- RESTful API design and management.
- Agile and DevOps delivery methodologies.
- Expertise in data architecture and design (conceptual logical and physical).
- Familiarity with modern integration technologies and patterns (e.g. event-driven service mesh API gateways).
Benefits
What We Offer:
- Competitive Salary
- Bonus Scheme
- Private Healthcare Insurance
- 25 Days Annual Leave Bank Holidays
- Up to 10 days allocated for development training per year
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- Paid Fertility Leave (5 Days)
- Statutory & Contributory Pension
- EAP with
- Gym Membership Benefits
- Flexible Working
- Annual Away Days/Company Socials
Equality & Diversity
Solirius Reply is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to creating a work environment that supports celebrates encourages and respects all individuals and in which all processes are based on merit competence and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion gender sexuality age disability ethnicity marital status or any other protected characteristics.
Should you require further assistance or require any reasonable adjustments be put in place to better support your application process please do not hesitate to raise this with us
Employment Type
Full-Time
