Solutions Architect

Salary: £70,000 - 70,000 per year

Requirements:

• Higher Education experience is essential.
• Strong understanding of student systems and the wider student lifecycle.
• Experience with SITS, Banner, Ellucian, or other major student information systems is valuable.
• Experience delivering within major transformation programmes or consulting environments.
• Background as a Solution Architect, Business Solutions Architect, Student Systems Architect, Senior Consultant, or similar progression from a hands-on student systems role.
• Enough technical understanding to ask the right questions, challenge technical teams, and understand how different pieces fit together.

Responsibilities:

• Help universities transition to new student records platforms.
• Support universities in tackling technical debt.
• Shape how changes across enrolment, finance, integrations, data, and reporting come together as one coherent solution.
• Sit between technology, transformation, and the university.
• Work with senior stakeholders, delivery teams, technical specialists, and technology vendors to shape the overall solution.
• Ask the right questions and challenge technical teams to ensure the solution fits together effectively.
• Help shape and grow the student systems transformation capability.
• Influence how future programmes are delivered.
• Mentor others within the team.

Technologies:

• Architect
• Support
• LESS

More:

We are a growing specialist consultancy delivering major student systems transformation programmes across UK Higher Education. This is a hybrid role based around Manchester or Bristol, with client travel when required. We offer the opportunity to work on varied transformation work with more influence, more variety, and the chance to help shape future programmes and mentor others within the team.

last updated 35 week of 2026