Solutions Architect

Solution Architect | Bristol (Hybrid - 2 days in office) | £70,000 - £75,000

Peaple Talent is partnering with a leading organisation undergoing significant investment across its digital, enterprise and smart building technology landscape. As the business continues to develop its digital estate, they are looking for an experienced Solution Architect to help shape and deliver integrated technology solutions across a diverse range of environments.

This is an exciting opportunity to work across a broad technology landscape spanning enterprise IT, cloud, infrastructure, APIs, and operational technology. You'll play a key role in translating business and technical requirements into robust, scalable architectures while helping shape standards and best practices for future delivery.

We're looking for a well-rounded Solution Architect who enjoys combining hands-on solution design with stakeholder engagement and architecture governance. You'll be comfortable working across multiple technologies and able to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

What You'll Bring:

• Proven experience working as a Solution Architect across complex enterprise technology environments
• Strong experience producing High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs)
• Broad understanding of enterprise infrastructure, applications, data, integration and security
• Strong experience with APIs, integration patterns and defining data flows between systems
• Experience leading solution discovery and translating business requirements into technical architectures
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively with technical teams, business stakeholders and third-party suppliers
• Experience supporting architecture governance, design assurance and Technical Design Authority processes
• Ability to balance technical requirements, security, governance and commercial considerations when designing solutions

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Microsoft Azure and/or AWS
• Knowledge of BIM, Common Data Environments (CDE) or structured asset information
• Understanding of IoT and Operational Technology (OT) security principles
• Experience with architecture modelling frameworks such as UML, BPMN or ArchiMate
• Background within property, construction, facilities management or the wider built environment
• Experience establishing reusable architecture patterns, standards and best practices