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Solution Architect

ELEXON
London, GBR
Full-time
Onsite
£90,000
Discovered 2 weeks ago
Solution architectureMicrosoft AzureCloud and hosted infrastructureTechnical solution designEnterprise architecture principlesUML

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Role overview

Join ELEXON’s Architecture team as a Solution Architect, delivering high-profile digital initiatives with senior stakeholders and cross-functional product teams.

Translate business needs into scalable, secure, practical solutions and provide architectural leadership to engineering teams and system integrators.

The role works with settlement systems and Microsoft Azure, cloud, and hosted technologies.

What you'll do

  • Create design-driven solutions balancing business needs with architecture and technology considerations.
  • Create and maintain solution architecture documentation and deliverables for settlement systems.
  • Translate business requirements into clear, practical technical designs.
  • Guide engineering teams and support adherence to agreed designs.
  • Review external vendor and system integrator solution and design documentation.
  • Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture principles and standards.
  • Design with Microsoft Azure, cloud, and hosted technologies.
  • Develop data models and flows that reflect data structures and governance requirements.
  • Communicate technical and data designs to internal teams and external vendors.
  • Assess proposed changes against architecture principles and design standards.
  • Collaborate with architecture, product, business analysis, and testing colleagues.
  • Support solutions from inception through delivery, operations, support, and decommissioning; contribute to governance and ensure scalability, reliability, and security.

What you'll bring

  • Strong experience developing and delivering solutions with Microsoft Azure and supporting cloud technologies.
  • Experience as a Solution Architect, Solution Designer, or in a comparable technical architecture role.
  • Strong understanding of cloud and hosted infrastructure concepts.
  • Experience translating complex business requirements into clear technical solutions and working in fast-paced Agile environments.
  • Experience working with system integrators and external technology vendors, including teams across organisations and geographies.
  • Experience reviewing vendor design documentation against architecture principles and standards.
  • Proficiency with Enterprise Architecture tools and modeling languages such as UML and ArchiMate.
  • Experience using Azure DevOps or equivalent issue and project management tools.
  • Strong understanding of data structures, data flows, and governance, with full product or project lifecycle experience.
  • Strong technical, analytical, problem-solving, written communication, and verbal communication skills; able to explain designs to varied stakeholders.
  • Proactive ownership, ability to manage changing priorities, and ability to deliver at pace.

Beneficial experience and qualifications

  • A technical background in solution design, software development, or data architecture is beneficial.
  • Experience developing or using Machine Learning, Generative AI, or Agentic AI solutions is beneficial.
  • Knowledge of electricity settlement arrangements, systems, processes, and governance is beneficial.
  • A TOGAF or BCS Practitioner Certificate in Enterprise and Solution Architecture, an equivalent qualification, or relevant experience is beneficial.

Salary and benefits

  • The advertised salary is £90,000; no pay cadence is specified.
  • Benefits include a bonus, private medical insurance, and a generous pension scheme.

Workplace

  • ELEXON operates hybrid working, with two days in the London office.

Culture

ELEXON describes its culture as diverse and inclusive and highlights colleague wellbeing, its Diversity Forum, and Mental Health First Aid network.

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