Senior Solution Architect

Role Overview

• Provide senior architectural oversight and assurance of solution designs.
• Hold the delivery partner to account for technical decisions, ensuring alignment with agreed architectural principles, standards, and integration requirements.
• Provide authoritative technical guidance on hosting, access, and design documentation to ensure interoperability and effective integration across the customer environment.
• Support delivery by engaging with a broad range of customer stakeholders, providing clear technical direction and resolving complex architectural issues.
• Lead technical governance and assurance across both design and live service, ensuring architectural integrity over time.
• Investigate and assess hosting options across the customer landscape, understanding constraints, capabilities, and trade-offs.
• Interpret user requirements and translate them into coherent architectural solutions that balance performance, risk, and delivery constraints.
• Evaluate technologies and solutions across the wider customer environment, recommending appropriate architectural patterns and approaches.
• Identify, assess, and manage technical risks, ensuring they are clearly understood, communicated, and mitigated.
• Support the development and operation of governance frameworks, standards, and assurance artefacts to enable consistent and repeatable delivery.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience operating as a Senior Solutions Architect or equivalent in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Proven ability to lead architectural assurance and governance across supplier-delivered systems.
• Broad technical understanding across hosting, integration, networking, and service architecture.
• Experience translating user needs into coherent architectural solutions.
• Ability to operate at enterprise level, influencing senior stakeholders and setting technical direction.
• Experience identifying and managing technical risks across the lifecycle.
• Strong communication skills, able to clearly articulate complex technical concepts, risks, and trade-offs.
• Experience working in secure, regulated, or government environments.
• SFIA Level 6 capability in Architecture or Solution Design.
• Experience operating in a client-side assurance or governance role.
• Familiarity with service governance and live service assurance models.
• Experience working alongside data, security, or platform architects.
• Knowledge of common architecture frameworks and patterns used in large-scale systems.

Benefits

We are committed to building a flexible, inclusive, and enabling company. Our aim is to create a diverse team of talented people with unique skills, experience, and backgrounds, so please apply and come as you are!

We also recognise the importance of flexible working and support this wherever we can. We typically operate a flexible, hybrid-working model, with an average 3 days in the office each week (dependent on the role). We welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility, part-time working requirements and/or workplace adjustments with all our applicants.

Rowden is a Disability Confident Committed company, and we actively encourage people with disabilities and health conditions to apply for our roles. Please let us know your requirements early on so that we can make sure you have everything you need up front to help make the recruitment process and experience as easy as possible.

Finally, if you feel that you don’t meet all the criteria included above but have transferable skills and relevant experience, we’d still love to hear from you!