Solution Architect in London

Music wouldn't exist without the work of songwriters, composers and publishers. We're here to represent them and make sure that they are paid for their work. After more than a century in the industry, we continue to innovate as a world-leading organisation.

As a Solution Architect, you will play a crucial role in architecting and supporting the implementation of effective and efficient solutions that meet the business needs of our customers and align with our business and technology strategies. You are also responsible for guiding, mentoring, and supporting Technical Leads across the CIO department, giving them the guard rails to design and deliver solutions with autonomy; providing insights and assistance where needed.

You are responsible for translating functional and non-functional requirements into solution architectures ensuring that your solutions are aligned with PRS’ business and technology strategies, and Architectural principles and standards. You will collaborate closely with stakeholders, including enterprise architects, business analysts & product owners, project managers, developers, engineers, and system administrators, to deliver successful outcomes.

The EA team is responsible for delivering technology strategies and roadmaps, landscapes, solution architectures, and technical designs for all key systems. The mission of the Team is to empower PRS for Music with a forward-thinking, business-aligned enterprise architecture that drives innovation, ensures strategic coherence, and delivers scalable, sustainable value through technology.

The Solution Architect plays a crucial role in this mission. All PRS for Music’s systems fall under the responsibility of the EA Team, this is across many technologies including Oracle, Microsoft, Salesforce and MuleSoft, both Cloud based and on premise. We regularly work with third parties to complement the skills of the core team always with a focus on enabling PRS to deliver the best service to its customers.

Responsibilities

• Architect end-to-end technology solutions that deliver business requirements in the most efficient way, and align with business goals, architectural principles, standards, patterns, and roadmaps.
• Ensure that solutions are strategically aligned, efficient, fit for purpose and fit for use.
• Leading, guiding, mentoring, and supporting Technical Leads across the CIO department, giving them the guard rails to design and deliver solutions with autonomy.
• Create solution architectures, to the optimal level of detail, to show how the solution meets requirements and provides the guardrails for how it will be engineered.
• Supporting the Technical Leads to create technical specifications, including physical system architecture, interface design, data flows, and integration points.
• Create, manage, and evangelise architectural artefacts such as our mission, standards, principles, templates, and patterns.

About You

At PRS for Music, we want you to bring the best version of yourself to work. We believe that celebrating individuality promotes a culture of acceptance and openness. Along with being whoever you want to be, in an ideal world you will also have:

• Strong influencing, collaboration, and presentation skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams, at all levels of the organisation from Executives to delivery personnel.
• Experience of successfully architecting and supporting the delivery of complex IT solutions and an understanding of the engineering of high-volume transactional data processing systems.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to balance technical and business considerations.
• Experience of Architectural ways of working (e.g. abstraction (conceptual, logical and physical), architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF), partitioning, patterns, principles, architecture tools, stakeholder mapping etc), and strategic alignment.
• Experience of implementing and working within effective architecture governance frameworks, and a strong understanding of various technologies, including but not limited to Oracle & Microsoft technologies, Cloud computing, databases, APIs, and web services.

What’s in it for you?

Here are just a few things that set PRS for Music apart from the crowd:

• We trust, value, and support our people to make the difference.
• We believe that diversity of thought and experience provides the platform for innovation and creativity.
• We are consciously inclusive and have eight Affinity Groups which you can join and make an impact.
• We invest in the development of our people to drive our ambitions forward.
• We offer a range of family friendly leave including enhanced maternity and paternity, grandparent, fertility, reproductive and menopause support.
• We know time to rest and recharge is important which is why we offer 25 days holiday entitlement with the option to top up twice annually up to a maximum of 30 days.
• Employees can work from anywhere in the world for up to eight weeks of the year.
• Plus a whole range of other benefits, including retail discounts, gym discounts, season ticket or bicycle loan.

The Process

Our Interview Process For This Role Is Simple. First stage interview will take place virtually on MS Teams. Second stage interview will take place in person at our London Bridge Hub. We use competency-based questions within our interviews. This allows you to provide examples of situations where you have had to demonstrate the required skills relevant to the role you are applying for. To assist your preparation for interview, research the STAR method to aid bringing your examples to life.

Location

We offer a hybrid working model, allowing employees to work from home up to three days a week. To ensure the health and safety of all our employees, if you wish to work from home for more than 2.5 days per week, we will conduct a quick and easy remote-working assessment.

If you sound like you could be the right person for the job, apply now. At PRS we are committed to equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging for all. We have taken a holistic approach to ensure that no one feels excluded regardless of age, class, sexuality, gender, race, religion, or ability. We value the needs of everyone in our organisation and strive to build an environment where our employee’s contributions are recognised in order that everyone may thrive.