Solution Architect

At IBM Consulting UK FutureNow, you’ll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors. You’ll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. From day one, you’ll work on meaningful, high-profile programmes that stretch your skills and accelerate your growth.

We invest heavily in you—supporting continuous learning, in-demand skills development, and long-term career progression. You’ll thrive in a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity, encourages reinvention, and recognises what makes you unique.

We Offer

• Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme.
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group pension plan through salary sacrifice.

Your Role And Responsibilities

We are seeking IT Architects to lead the design and implementation of hybrid cloud application modernisation projects with our Public Sector clients. You will provide technical leadership for migrating existing applications to cloud and for building new cloud-native solutions.

Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Providing architectural, consultative and engineering support for our customers’ journeys to the cloud.
• Bringing industry insight to deliver innovative solutions, that are tailored to the specific needs of our customers.
• Leadership for transformations of enterprise complex projects, from system requirements through delivery and production/deployment, providing architectural and hands-on technical leadership to ensure overall solution integrity.
• Building strong relationships with our clients and acting as a trusted advisor.

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree.

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• You will be familiar with AWS or/and Azure and be comfortable with Microservice architectures and a range of cloud, DevOps and integration technologies.
• You will have worked on hybrid cloud complex systems integration projects designing elements of the target cloud solution and its integration with existing on-premise applications.
• You will be comfortable working in ‘rainbow’ teams with multiple different suppliers or as part of a wholly IBM team.
• Your background is likely to be a mix of large-scale waterfall deliveries and more agile projects.
• You will be a hands-on professional with a proven track record in keeping your skills up to date, ideally evidenced through recognised certifications.
• Proficiency in designing and implementing hybrid cloud solutions combining on-premises and cloud-based services.
• Experience in creating architecture diagrams, component models and technology stacks for hybrid environments.
• Deep understanding of major cloud providers (e.g. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and their respective services.
• Familiarity with cloud-native services, serverless computing and managed services.
• Experience in designing, managing and optimising on-premises infrastructure including virtualisation, storage and networking.
• Knowledge of on-premises automation tools (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
• Proficiency in designing and implementing secure connectivity solutions (e.g. VPNs, Direct Connect, VPN Gateways).
• Experience in integrating on-premise public cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, Kubernetes etc.).
• Strong understanding & delivery experience of cloud-native architectures.
• Extensive experience using agile delivery methods, i.e. Scrum.
• Good understanding of scaled agile delivery methods, i.e. SAFe or LeSS.

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NSV) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Good knowledge of system design & delivery.
• Java & JavaScript frameworks e.g. Spring Boot, React, Angular, J2EE.
• Enterprise integration technologies (Kafka, MQ, IBM Streams, ESBs, ETL etc.).
• Enterprise level persistence technologies (Oracle, Postgres, DB2, NoSQL, Redis, Graph etc.).
• Estimation experience (top down, bottom up, planning poker etc.).
• Experienced in architectural languages or frameworks e.g. UML, Zachman, TOGAF.
• Understanding of Automation in the development, testing and operations context.