Lead Solution Architect, Infrastructure Modernisation
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Location: London hybrid with 50% on-site
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The opportunity
Our client, a major public-sector financial institution, is looking for a Lead Solution Architect to support its technology modernisation programme. You'll sit within the central architecture function, working alongside business analysts and other architects to make sure IT change is aligned to business priorities and the technical architecture is right.
This is a hands-on leadership role in an operationally critical, security-conscious environment. You'll set architectural direction, shape solutions from the earliest stages through to implementation, and make sure legacy platforms, technical debt and unnecessary complexity are reduced rather than carried forward.
What you'll be doing
- Developing current, transition and target solution architectures for infrastructure and technology change, aligned to enterprise direction and governance
- Translating business, service, security and operational needs into clear architecture requirements and solution options
- Producing proportionate architecture artefacts, including High-Level Designs, Solution Designs, context diagrams, roadmaps, non-functional requirements and decision records
- Leading technical design workshops across cloud, networks, compute, storage, identity, cyber security, automation and service management
- Setting architectural direction and assuring detailed designs from engineering teams and suppliers, without taking over their accountability for implementation
- Evaluating options and recommending the best fit, weighing value, whole-life cost, risk, complexity, supplier dependency, exit implications and strategic fit
- Providing design assurance through build, testing, migration, implementation and transition
- Identifying technical dependencies and integration risks, and escalating wider implications early through governance
- Supporting programme shaping, business cases, procurements xgikmsk and supplier evaluations
- Presenting recommendations to architecture and programme governance forums in clear, accessible language
- Challenging lift-and-shift approaches that would preserve avoidable cost, complexity or operational risk
- Engaging service owners and operational teams early, so supportability, resilience, monitoring, recovery and security are designed in
What we're looking for
Essential
- Significant experience as an infrastructure, solution or technology architect delivering complex change in a large organisation
- Demonstrable experience of technology modernisation, including legacy migration, adopti...
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