Solution Architect – Digital Services

An exciting opportunity is available for a highly skilled Solution Architect to join a leading telecommunications environment and drive innovative architecture solutions within the Digital Services domain. This role is ideal for a strategic thinker with strong technical leadership capabilities and proven experience delivering enterprise-scale transformation programmes.

You will be responsible for designing end-to-end solutions guiding delivery teams managing complex integrations and ensuring all architecture outputs align with enterprise standards governance and long-term business strategy.

• Lead the analysis modelling design and documentation of complex multi-application business and technical solutions.
  
• Drive solution architecture delivery across the full systems development lifecycle.
  
• Ensure alignment to enterprise architecture frameworks principles standards and policies across business application data security integration and infrastructure domains.
  
• Design scalable sustainable and future-ready digital solutions that meet business and IT requirements.
  
• Create architecture roadmaps transition states and future-state solution models.
  
• Develop high-level and detailed solution designs technical diagrams and architecture artefacts.
  
• Deliver architecture solutions across Web Mobile IoT Digital Platforms and Customer Experience channels.
  

• Partner closely with business leaders product owners programme managers and customer experience teams.
  
• Build strong relationships with architecture engineering operations and vendor teams.
  
• Facilitate workshops and technical discussions with internal and external stakeholders.
  
• Present solution strategies to steering committees and executive leadership.
  
• Manage architecture risks dependencies and delivery escalations effectively.
  

• Ensure all architecture deliverables comply with governance frameworks and industry best practices (TOGAF TM Forum etc.).
  
• Maintain architecture repositories and ensure documentation is current complete and accurate.
  
• Oversee third-party system integrators and vendors to successful delivery outcomes.
  
• Ensure solution quality sustainability cost-efficiency and operational readiness.
  

• 35 years experience in Solution Architecture / Enterprise Architecture.
  
• Proven experience delivering complex third-party integration solutions.
  
• Strong knowledge of Digital Platforms APIs Cloud Security and large-scale enterprise systems.
  
• Experience with front-end and back-end solution design.
  
• Understanding of UX/UI design principles and customer journey flows.
  
• Knowledge of software design principles including Object-Oriented Design Functional Programming and APIs.
  
• Experience with architecture tools repositories and modelling techniques.
  

• Strong strategic thinking and analytical capability.
  
• Excellent stakeholder management across all seniority levels.
  
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
  
• Proven leadership influencing negotiation and decision-making ability.
  
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
  
• Innovative mindset with a passion for continuous improvement and digital transformation.
  

• Degree or Postgraduate Degree in:
  • Information Technology
    
  • Computer Science
    
  • Engineering