Reed Technology
Solution Architect
Job Description
Salary: £80,000 - 90,000 per year
Requirements:- Proven experience as a Solution Architect within a complex enterprise environment.
- Strong background across customer, digital, content and data platforms.
- Experience with technology evaluation, vendor selection and architecture governance.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Experience delivering solutions involving customer engagement, content management, customer data, personalisation or digital experience platforms.
- Experience with enterprise CMS or Digital Experience Platforms such as Sitecore, Bloomreach, Contentful, Acquia or similar.
- Experience with customer engagement or customer data platforms such as Braze, Salesforce, Adobe, Treasure Data or similar.
- Knowledge of cloud and SaaS-based technologies.
- Ability to operate strategically whilst retaining sufficient technical depth to influence design decisions.
- Desirable: experience with personalisation, experimentation and optimisation platforms.
- Desirable: exposure to AI-enabled decisioning or customer engagement solutions.
- Desirable: experience with platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Hightouch or similar.
- Desirable: TOGAF or equivalent certification.
- Desirable: experience supporting large-scale transformation programmes.
- Define end-to-end solution architectures across customer, digital and data domains.
- Support technology selection, product evaluation and vendor engagement.
- Translate business requirements into scalable, pragmatic technology solutions.
- Produce architecture roadmaps, designs and supporting documentation.
- Ensure solutions align with governance, security and regulatory requirements.
- Provide architectural oversight throughout programme delivery.
- Identify opportunities to leverage data, automation and AI capabilities.
- Support integration across multiple platforms and third-party solutions.
- Act as a key link between business and technical stakeholders.
- AI
- Architect
- Cloud
- CMS
- Databricks
- Hightouch
- Support
- Salesforce
- Security
- Sitecore
- Snowflake
- TOGAF
More:
We are supporting a major business transformation programme spanning customer engagement, digital experience, data and AI-driven capabilities. This is a strategic Solution Architect role focused on shaping future technology solutions, evaluating new platforms and ensuring technology investments align to business objectives. You will work across business and technology teams, with hybrid working and our Midlands HQ ideally attended once per month, though this can be flexible for the right candidate. The role offers a salary of up to £90,000 plus benefits.
last updated 31 week of 2026
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£90,000
UK median
This salary is 6% below the UK median for Architects (£90,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks