Solution Architect – Fixed Term Contract

Job Details

Salary: Competitive per annum

Hours: 37.5 per week, Monday to Friday

Location: Flexible working with up to 3 days a week in our VHQ, Crawley

Contract: 12 month fixed term contract

Closing Date: 10th June 2025

In a nutshell

At Virgin Atlantic Airways, we believe that everyone can take on the world, and it’s our vision to become the most loved travel company. As we embark on this next exciting stage of our journey, we’re harnessing our spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation to challenge the status quo.

Join our team of forward-thinkers who approach the world with a different lens. We value individuals who are vocal about driving positive change and are willing to dive into both big and small tasks. If you’re ready to take your career to new heights, this opportunity is for you.

The Solution Architect will be accountable for the successful delivery of complex solution architectures as well as helping drive them toward the enterprise technology strategy and the roadmap. They will work closely with the Enterprise domain architects to ensure business outcomes are achieved, as well as feeding back into the overall Enterprise Architecture to ensure progress towards the target state.

Day to day

•Leading and developing Complex Solution Designs in line with domain and enterprise architectures

•Providing direction for third party technical architects and development resource

•Technical Capability Assessment – Reviewing existing technical capabilities, promoting reuse, or identifying new capabilities

•Technical Requirements Engineering – Ensuring all non-functionals are considered

•Procurement Support – Contributing to the selection of fit for purpose solutions

•Contribute to Technical Architectures to ensure feedback from implemented architectures

•Contribute to the development of Technical Strategies and Reference Architectures

•Manage Total Risk and Cost across the IT Estate

About you

•Previous experience working in architecture roles (e.g. Solution, Domain or Enterprise).

•Knowledge of modern architectures, utilizing cloud capabilities and loosely coupled architectures.

•Knowledge of implementing SaaS and Cloud native solutions

•Travel or Airline knowledge useful but not essential

Our recipe for leadership

At Virgin Atlantic, our leaders empower teams to thrive through collaboration, innovation, and excellence. Explore our Leadership Recipe and discover the 20 core ingredients that define what it means to lead with us, driving our mission to be the most loved travel company and achieve sustainable profit. Want to learn more? Click here

Be yourself

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world – no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive. So that everyone at Virgin Atlantic can be themselves and know they belong.

To make your journey with us accessible and individual to you, we encourage you to let us know if you’d like a little extra help with your application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. We are here to support you, so please reach out to our team, ( ) feeling confident that we’ve got your individual considerations covered.

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