IT Solution Architect

Salary: £50,000 - 90,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience in solution architecture, application design, or infrastructure architecture.
• Strong understanding of enterprise, application, security, and network architecture principles.
• Experience designing and implementing solutions across Microsoft, Linux, and cloud environments.
• Knowledge of cloud technologies and multi-cloud architectures.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into effective solutions.
• Experience working collaboratively with cross-functional teams, demonstrating strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
• Understanding of architectural frameworks, modelling tools such as UML and ArchiMate, and IT service management best practices such as ITIL.
• Exposure to a broad range of technologies, platforms, and enterprise environments.
• Understanding of emerging technology trends and their application to business transformation and innovation.
• Experience working within regulated or compliance-driven environments.
• Hands-on experience designing and delivering cloud-based solutions in AWS and/or Azure.
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks and methodologies, such as TOGAF.

Responsibilities:

• We design and analyse high-level and low-level architectural solutions to guide development across products, services, projects, systems, applications, technologies, processes, and information.
• We contribute to technology roadmaps, technical strategy, and architectural principles.
• We attend governance forums to support solution architecture assurance and compliance.
• We adhere to principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure architecture decisions align with the enterprise future-state vision.
• We contribute to the creation of new standards and patterns.
• We work closely with product owners and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that supports future business requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
• We work closely with the Programme Management Office or project management office to ensure delivery aligns with what is being promised throughout the project or product lifecycle.

Technologies:

• AWS
• ArchiMate
• Azure
• Cloud
• Support
• ITIL
• Linux
• Network
• Security
• TOGAF
• UML
• Architect

More:

We are Raytheon UK, a leading defence and aerospace technology company with circa 2,000 employees and major facilities across the United Kingdom, including Harlow, Gloucester, Manchester, Livingston, Glenrothes, and Broughton. We offer a hybrid working model based in Harlow, Glenrothes, or Livingston, with three days a week on site, and a 37-hour working week with an early Friday finish. Our benefits include a competitive salary, contributory pension scheme with up to 10.5% company contribution, life assurance, 25 days holiday plus public holidays and the option to buy or sell up to 5 days, car or car allowance, company bonus scheme, flexible benefits, enhanced sick pay, enhanced family friendly policies, private medical insurance, and up to 5 paid volunteering days each year. We foster a collaborative, trust-based culture focused on innovation, professional development, and supporting our role in safeguarding a safer and more connected world.

last updated 34 week of 2026