Senior Solutions Architect

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Qualifications

• Essential Experience
• Extensive experience in Solution Architecture, Enterprise Architecture or Technical Design leadership roles.
• Expertise in the Knowledge Plane - designing architectures that transform data and unstructured information into trusted, contextualised and reusable knowledge suitable for machine reasoning.
• Apply semantic modelling, ontology, taxonomy and knowledge representation techniques to enable machine-consumable knowledge assets.
• Design approaches for transforming data, information and expertise into formalised knowledge structures.
• Define patterns for knowledge sharing and interoperability across organisational and technology boundaries.
• Support the adoption of knowledge graph, semantic and reasoning technologies.
• Proven experience designing large-scale, high-reliability real-time technology solutions across cloud, network or telecommunications environments.
• Deep understanding of systems integration, APIs, service-oriented and event-driven architectures.
• Experience balancing commercial outcomes, delivery timelines, resilience, security and operational requirements.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills across technical and executive audiences.

Responsibilities

• Define solution components, patterns and technology strategies.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture principles, security requirements and technology roadmaps.
• Guide delivery teams through architecture decisions and implementation.
• Design architectures that enable automation, orchestration and closed-loop operations.
• Support the development of trusted knowledge models that underpin autonomous operations.
• Translate business intent, policies and operational requirements into machine-consumable solutions.
• Enable AI-driven decision-making using contextual and operational knowledge.
• Define service models, semantic relationships and capability mappings across complex technology ecosystems.
• Support development of knowledge graphs, service awareness and dependency mapping capabilities.
• Ensure consistent modelling across products, services, infrastructure and operational domains.
• Partner with Product Owners, Engineering Leads and Enterprise Architects to shape future-state architecture.
• Translate business strategy into technology outcomes
• Influence senior stakeholders on architecture direction, priorities and investment decisions.
• Facilitate architecture reviews, design governance and decision-making forums.
• Maintain architectural integrity throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Identify opportunities for reuse, simplification and standardisation.
• Drive adoption of best practices, reference architectures and engineering standards.
• Support technology modernisation and digital transformation initiatives.
• What We're Looking For
• Extensive experience in Solution Architecture, Enterprise Architecture or Technical Design leadership roles.
• Expertise in the Knowledge Plane - designing architectures that transform data and unstructured information into trusted, contextualised and reusable knowledge suitable for machine reasoning.
• Apply semantic modelling, ontology, taxonomy and knowledge representation techniques to enable machine-consumable knowledge assets.
• Design approaches for transforming data, information and expertise into formalised knowledge structures.
• Define patterns for knowledge sharing and interoperability across organisational and technology boundaries.
• Support the adoption of knowledge graph, semantic and reasoning technologies.
• Proven experience designing large-scale, high-reliability real-time technology solutions across cloud, network or telecommunications environments.
• Deep understanding of systems integration, APIs, service-oriented and event-driven architectures.
• Experience balancing commercial outcomes, delivery timelines, resilience, security and operational requirements.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills across technical and executive audiences.