Solutions Architect

About the role

Salary

• The description gives conflicting salary figures: £62,900 in the introduction and £74,000 in key details.

What you'll be doing

• Document regulatory, operational, and business systems, including Dynamics 365 CE, Dynamics 365 Finance, SharePoint, and integrations.
• Shape and document requirements with stakeholders, product owners, architects, project managers, and business analysts.
• Create roadmaps, project briefs, high- and low-level designs, and user stories.
• Prepare designs for architecture governance review and approval.
• Work with data, business intelligence, and third-party teams on data flows, reporting, publishing, archiving, and retention.
• Consider availability, performance, security, remediation, disaster recovery, and business continuity from the outset.
• Support development, project management, environment management, and DevOps teams in solution delivery and assurance.
• Serve as a technical contact for design, integrations, build, deployment, and configuration.
• Own technical components and track and mitigate third-party evergreen updates.

Essential experience and skills

• Experience architecting complex portfolios spanning localized and enterprise-scale solutions.
• Proven analysis and design of end-to-end Microsoft-centric software solutions.
• Ability to work across teams and projects on practical, future-proof, evergreen solutions.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience across business, data, application, and technology architecture; understanding of governance and delivery models.
• Ability to manage competing priorities across multiple projects.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to translate technical designs into business-focused outcomes while maintaining quality.
• Strong architecture design skills, including Visio or PowerPoint.
• Technical experience with Dynamics 365, Azure, Microsoft 365, and SharePoint Online.

Desirable experience

• Experience in a regulatory, legal, or similarly complex organization is desirable.
• Presentation skills and understanding of agile delivery methods are desirable.
• A degree, relevant Microsoft certification, or similar professional qualification is desirable.
• Experience with Power Apps, Exchange Online, Azure B2C, Service Bus, Logic Apps, Functions, API Management, Azure SQL, SQL Server, Active Directory, Intune, Azure DevOps, Power BI, or related Microsoft technologies is desirable.