Solutions Architect

Salary: £30,000 - 50,000 per year

Requirements:

• Experience in enterprise-scale architectural judgement and the ability to operate effectively amid ambiguity, competing priorities and regulatory constraints.
• Strong commercial, risk and value orientation, with the ability to translate architectural decisions into measurable business and operational outcomes.
• Credibility with CIO, Product, Engineering and Risk leadership, influencing through evidence, clarity and decision discipline rather than authority alone.
• Deep understanding of modern software engineering, including agentic SDLC, cloud platforms, integration architectures and data patterns.
• Ability to abstract technical detail when engaging at executive level.
• Proven capability in leading through others and shaping behaviour and outcomes across delivery teams without direct line management.
• Confident communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex architectural trade-offs succinctly for executive audiences and governance forums.
• Knowledge of business process re-engineering, cost-benefit analysis, data modelling, infrastructure engineering, innovation, IT governance, requirements analysis, Scrum software development, security systems and systems design.
• Ability to apply architectural modelling techniques such as UML, C4 or equivalent.
• Strong awareness of security practices, resilience, regulatory expectations and bank/enterprise governance frameworks.

Responsibilities:

• Own, shape and assure end-to-end solution architecture and decisions within a clearly defined business or technology domain.
• Be accountable for decision quality, risk posture and the long-term sustainability of outcomes.
• Partner with CIO, Product and Engineering leadership to balance delivery speed, operational resilience, regulatory compliance, cost efficiency and architectural integrity.
• Act as a key change role within the delivery and governance framework, accountable for architectural outcomes and governance.
• Design, evolve and maintain solutions as enduring products aligned to business strategy, domain roadmaps and enterprise architecture intent.
• Own material architectural decisions within the domain, including technology selection, integration patterns, data flows and non-functional trade-offs.
• Ensure solutions are delivery-feasible, operationally viable and economically sound.
• Provide clear architectural intent and direction, enabling autonomous delivery teams while maintaining coherence at scale.
• Lead workload placement decisions and maximise the benefits of cloud-native capabilities.
• Shape how platform capabilities and shared services are leveraged within the domain.
• Ensure solutions meet security, resilience and regulatory expectations.
• Own the architectural risk position of solutions and balance requirements with delivery objectives and long-term operational stability.
• Consider run-cost, change-cost and capacity impacts in all designs.
• Contribute to investment prioritisation and sequencing using architectural insight to improve economic outcomes.
• Champion standardised platforms, AI, patterns and services, and feed unmet needs into platform and enterprise roadmaps.
• Drive systemic improvement of the architecture and engineering ecosystem, reducing duplication and improving time-to-value.
• Partner with Engineering and Operations leaders to support production stability, fault resolution and performance optimisation for architecturally significant services.
• Ensure architectural decisions are operationalised effectively across the full lifecycle.
• Provide architecture inputs for governance, risk, privacy, security and records-management processes.
• Represent the domain architecture position confidently in senior forums, with clarity on trade-offs and residual risks.
• Mentor other architects and contribute to architecture operating-model evolution, including role clarity, decision frameworks and domain alignment.

Technologies:

• AI
• Cloud
• Support
• Security
• UML
• Architect

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We are HCLTech, a global technology company with more than 220,000 people across 60 countries, delivering digital, engineering, cloud and AI capabilities through a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work across major industry verticals, including Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. This role is focused on owning domain architecture decisions and shaping enterprise-level operating model evolution, standardisation and capability uplift.

last updated 33 week of 2026