Solution Architect Specialist

Job Req ID:63184 Posting Date: 08/10/26 Function:  Digital  Location: Manchester, London, Bristol, Leeds , Hybrid Working SC CLEARANCE REQUIRED About the role The Solution Architect Specialist independently executes a range of workstreams in delivering the overall solution architecture design and mapping of business requirements, as well as organises smooth project delivery empowering the implementation of functional solutions that are fit for purpose and delivered against stated business requirements. What you’ll be doing •    Delivers deep technical and repeatable solutions that achieve customer requirements driving positive outcomes. •    Guides partnerships with business and operational stakeholders to conduct business and technical discovery. •    Implements robust recommendations, proposals and scope of work documents for group engagements while also identifying critical dependencies and gaps. •    Delivers the creation of innovative and repeatable solution architectures to resolve a range of complex solution architecture problems and meet agreed requirements. •    Facilitates business stakeholders' understanding of capabilities and the transformative power of group products, services and technology. •    Drives the team culture of enhancing the solution architect team's knowledge, methodologies and customer-facing collateral. •    Executes alignment with Enterprise Architecture guardrails and solution patterns. •    Contributes to thought leadership and provides advice on a specific set of technologies to help senior leadership shape the long-term direction of solution architecture strategy. •    Delivers complex, strategic initiatives that are a part of the company's overall commercial strategy. •    Champions, continuously develops and shares with team knowledge on emerging trends and changes in solution architecture. •    Mentors other solution architects, helping to improve the team's abilities by acting as a technical resource. •    Act as the technical expert on architecture governance and design authority for development of products and services in line with the published roadmap. Essential Skills / Experience Solution Architecture: Develops solutions which fit within the enterprise architecture in terms of information architecture, system portfolios and integration requirements. System Design: Defines the architecture, product design, modules, interfaces, and data for a system to satisfy specified requirements. APIs/Web Service Integration: Develops message protocols that allow distributed elements of an application to communicate. Desirable Skills / Experience Cloud Computing: Uses a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer. Solution Design: Designs the essential core building block's that make up a technical solution. Requirements gathering: Determines user expectations…