IT Solution Architect

We’re BDO, an accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today’s changing world. We work with ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high-growth businesses that fuel the economy, directly advising the owners and management teams that lead them.

To ensure our services and applications are fit for the modern market, our IT team collaborates with every department. They develop, explore, and implement new ideas helping us to change the future of accounting, tax, and business consulting while maintaining the technology that keeps us advancing. In an IT role at BDO, you’ll become part of a team that acts as the backbone for our business. We’ll provide you with the training and support you need to achieve your goals.

Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice, which grows from a thorough understanding of their business through close collaboration and building long-lasting relationships. You’ll be comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO’s partners to help businesses effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.

Reporting into the IT Architecture team, the purpose of this role is to lead in designing, planning, and delivering solutions in collaboration with our Innovation & Digital Office and the business streams. Some solutions will be derived from innovation ideas generated within the business. You’ll work closely with other Architects and Innovation Managers to ensure new solutions address business problems while adhering to our architectural design and enterprise strategy.

To accelerate time to market, you will utilise approaches such as buy before build and rapid agile delivery. Using both minimum viable product and iterative principles, the role is responsible for delivering solutions at speed into the business, utilising a 'cloud first' strategy. You must be technically proficient and solution-focused, motivated by finding coherent and strategic solutions to complex business challenges. You will have a track record of innovation and be able to demonstrate examples of using creativity and technical knowledge to achieve successful business outcomes through an engaging and consultative approach.

In this role you’ll:

• Be responsible for leading the design and technical delivery of prototypes and digital products within an agile squad.
• Participate in the discovery of new opportunities, turning problem statements into business outcome-driven technical proposals.
• Solve problems using creative approaches and emerging technologies.
• Be comfortable learning and becoming a subject matter expert within an assigned business domain.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architects, Integration Architects, and Cloud Architects to build coherent systems within our IT environments.
• Work alongside Business Analysts and UX Designers supporting the gathering and validating of requirements, user journeys, and user experience.
• Contribute to the growth of the IT Architecture function and its practices, ensuring that Architecture is recognised as a valuable asset to BDO.
• Contribute and adhere to technical, delivery, and service governance standards whilst designing solutions.
• Adhere to change processes and produce high-quality technical documentation.

You’ll be someone with:

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, including presentation skills, able to communicate to stakeholders at all levels of the organisation and third parties.
• Experience working with technologies such as JavaScript, React, C# .NET, Python, SQL, APIs, Azure, Power Platform, SaaS, PaaS, IaC.
• Exposure to and understanding of emerging technologies e.g. AI, LLMs, Machine Learning, NLP, MCP etc.
• Experience in architecture and software development methodologies, and design techniques e.g. Agile, C4, UML, TOGAF, Microsoft Well-Architected Framework, design patterns.
• Experience using modern tools in support of delivery: e.g. Azure DevOps, LeanIX, Lucidchart, Figma, Balsamiq, M365.
• Excellent understanding of public cloud hosted infrastructure and application integrations.
• Experience in building Minimal Viable Products (MVP) and working with product teams.
• Experience evaluating and working with SaaS products.

We’re committed to agile working, offering every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit you, your teams, and the task at hand. At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, with programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values, and we’re proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we’ll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs. Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We know that collaboration is key to creating value for the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences. With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you’ll never stop learning at BDO.