Solution Architect – HR / Corporate Systems /Back-Office Domain
London – 3 days a week onsite
£100k-£110k + car allowance + up to 30% bonus
We’re seeking a Corporate Functions Domain Solution Architect to join a FTSE 250 organisation undergoing a major technology transformation under a new CIO. This is a strategic role within a significant, multi-year IT and digital transformation to modernise the organisation’s back-office and corporate systems, enabling greater standardisation, control, insight, and scalability across its global estate.
Role Overview
The Corporate Functions Domain Solution Architect will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering technology solutions across the organisation’s back-office and corporate domains, including Finance, HR, Payroll, Procurement, Legal, and Corporate Services.
This role will focus on architecting scalable, standardised solutions that support a complex, global operating model — balancing global consistency with local regulatory, statutory, and operational requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect end-to-end solutions across corporate and back-office functions, including Finance, HR, Payroll, Procurement, Legal, and related enterprise services.
- Design solutions that support multi-country operations, regulatory compliance, financial controls, and workforce complexity.
- Own solution architecture designs for major corporate systems transformation initiatives, ensuring alignment to business strategy and operational needs.
- Define and maintain target and transitional architectures for corporate systems domains.
- Apply TOGAF principles and enterprise architecture standards to guide solution design and technology decisions.
- Work closely with Enterprise Architects to ensure corporate systems align with the broader enterprise architecture and technology roadmap.
- Establish architecture patterns, standards, and guardrails for corporate platforms and shared services systems.
Transformation & Delivery
- Support large-scale IT transformation programmes, including ERP modernisation, HR and payroll transformation, and procurement digitisation.
- Provide architectural governance throughout delivery, ensuring solutions meet quality, security, and scalability requirements.
- Support vendor and partner selection, RFP processes, and solution evaluations.
Required Experience & Skills
- Proven experience as a Solution Architect or Domain Architect within corporate or back-office systems environments.
- Strong experience architecting solutions across Finance, HR, Payroll, and/or Procurement domains.
- Experience working in large, complex, multi-country organisations.
- TOGAF or similar certification.
- Experience with large-scale ERP and corporate platforms (e.g. SAP S/4HANA, SAP SuccessFactors, Workday, Oracle, Coupa, Ariba, or similar).
- Experience operating within complex, global, multi-brand or multi-entity organisations.
To apply for this great opportunity, please apply with a copy of your latest CV.
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