The Solution Architect is responsible for defining and assuring end to end technology solutions that align with business objectives, enterprise architecture standards, security policies, and technology strategy. The role acts as a bridge between business stakeholders and delivery teams, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, operable, and sustainable, with a strong focus on Enterprise Microsoft technologies.
Key responsibilities
- Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into fit for purpose solution designs.
- Define end to end solution architectures, including high level blueprints and detailed designs across application, integration, data, and technology layers.
- Select and shape appropriate technologies, platforms, and patterns in line with enterprise standards, reference architectures, and roadmaps.
- Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture principles, security policies, and non functional requirements.
- Provide technical leadership through design workshops, design reviews, and ongoing engagement with delivery, infrastructure, and platform teams.
- Support project delivery through architecture governance, including design assurance, risk assessment, and articulation of architectural trade offs and impacts.
- Document architecture decisions, standards, and patterns, and maintain solution artefacts in approved architecture repositories.
- Enable delivery teams through clear, pragmatic architectural guidance that supports effective and timely implementation.
- Stay current with Microsoft platform capabilities and emerging technologies, assessing their relevance to the organisation.
Required experience
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 5+ years’ experience in solution architecture, technical design leadership, or closely related roles.
- Proven experience designing and delivering complex, multi system solutions in enterprise environments.
- Strong hands on experience with Enterprise Microsoft technologies, including Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and Microsoft integration services.
- Experience working in Manufacturing and Operations, and/or Supply Chain & Logistics environments, with exposure to the challenges of operational, multi site, or business critical systems.
- Strong background in systems integration, APIs, messaging, and event driven architectures.
- Experience with enterprise architecture modelling tools and repositories; LeanIX experience is an advantage.
- Relevant certifications such as TOGAF or Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect are highly desirable.
Skills and competencies
- Strong understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF).
- Deep knowledge of Microsoft centric cloud and hybrid architectures.
- Experience designing integration led solutions across enterprise and operational systems.
- Ability to model and communicate complex systems using tools such as ArchiMate, UML, or Visio.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and non technical audiences.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills, including the ability to assess risk, constraints, and architectural trade offs.
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