Solutions Architect in London

Join our Professional Services team as a Solution Architect and you will have the opportunity to work with some of the biggest public and private sector organisations in Great Britain. We offer a great package (starting from circa £62k+ rising with experience, plus a bonus of up to 20%) and are flexible about where you work (within GB).

As a Solution Architect, you will be responsible for designing and delivering a wide range of technical solutions for our customers across a variety of projects and sectors and will be working with the latest geospatial and enterprise technologies.

Your key responsibilities as a Solution Architect will be to:

• Understand our customers and their business: understand how Esri technology can help them be more successful.
• Technical Design: use your Enterprise IT and Esri platform architectures experience to design and deliver scalable, commercially viable solutions based on the latest cloud patterns.
• Identify Opportunities: help our Customer Success Managers identify new opportunities where geospatial technology, data and workflows can add value to our customers' businesses.
• Innovate: deliver innovative projects, using the latest technology and explore key technology trends (IoT, real‐time GIS, big data analytics, AI/ML, 3D, and digital twins).
• Provide Technical Leadership: and mentoring to other technical staff, contributing to the broader technical strategy within our business.

This would be a great career move if you:

• Have a track‐record of successfully engaging with customers with significant, hands‐on experience in the design, configuration, and deployment of Enterprise systems.
• Have a deep knowledge of databases, web, applications, integration, software engineering, networks, clouds such as AWS or Azure, disaster recovery and high availability systems.
• Are comfortable with GIS technologies and geospatial data. Experience of designing geospatial solutions is required, but detailed knowledge of ArcGIS is not essential for this role.
• Understand cybersecurity principles and practices, with a working knowledge of firewalls, zero‐trust, SAML.
• Are familiar with automation, Azure DevOps, Notebooks and Serverless compute.
• Are comfortable with REST APIs and designing solutions that use them.
• Can build great relationships and engage effectively with key stakeholders.

Esri UK is a thriving and inclusive workplace. We take pride in our culture and recognise the value our people bring. We believe in promoting from within and offer long term career opportunities in a successful, growing business.

In addition, we offer:

• A good basic salary, starting from circa £62k + rising with experience.
• A generous company bonus scheme paying up to 20% per annum.
• A great benefits package, including a good company pension, Vitality healthcare scheme, permanent health insurance, gym contribution and cycle to work scheme.
• Flexible working – you can be home or office based (Edinburgh, Aylesbury or Cambridge), or a mixture of both.
• Security – all our positions require successful candidates to undergo government security clearance, possibly to higher levels (for which we pay an additional salary premium). We require individuals to be UK Nationals, who have been resident in the UK, continuously, for the last 10 years.

Please apply online via our website www.esriuk.com, including your CV and covering letter. Application deadline: 8th December 2025, however we will be shortlisting and interviewing candidates before this date, so please apply ASAP!

At Esri UK we help our customers to implement and integrate ArcGIS - the world's most powerful mapping and spatial analytics platform. We support governments, universities, businesses, and charities worldwide to save money, improve society, and protect our environment through a deeper understanding of the changing world around them.

Esri UK are an equal opportunity employer - we recognise the importance and value of having a diverse and inclusive workforce and the benefits that this can bring to both our employees and our customers.