Solution Architect

Job Title:

Solution Architect

Salary: £54,800 - £73,250

Location:

Hybrid Cambridge with 40-60% time in office

Contract:

Permanent

Hours:

Full time 35 hours week

Do you want to design the next generation of cloud-native solutions that support millions of users around the world? Are you excited by solving complex technology challenges, influencing strategic programmes, and delivering secure, resilient applications on AWS?

Join us and help shape the future of our technology landscape while making a meaningful global impact.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

We are seeking a highly motivated Solution Architect to join our English Enterprise Architecture team. In this influential role, you will contribute to large-scale technology transformation programmes and help deliver the technology strategy that underpins our English product portfolio.

Working across the architecture community, you will partner closely with product, engineering, and technology teams to design, assure, and govern secure, resilient, and scalable platforms. You will ensure technology solutions align with business objectives and deliver measurable value for learners, educators, and partners around the world.

As part of this role, you'll design and deliver secure, scalable, and resilient cloud-native solutions on AWS that enable strategic business outcomes. Working closely with Enterprise Architects, engineering teams, product managers, and security specialists, you'll shape solution architectures that align with our technology strategy while driving innovation, modern engineering practices, and the successful delivery of transformational initiatives.

You will be joining a team of passionate solution and enterprise architects who are committed to delivering high-quality digital platforms, evolving our architecture practice, and enabling technology that creates lasting business value.

The role includes:

• Collaborating with business and technology stakeholders to understand requirements, establish trusted relationships, and translate business needs into solution architectures (Collaboration).
• Designing secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud-native solutions on AWS that align with enterprise architecture principles, technology standards, and strategic roadmaps (Innovation).
• Working closely with engineers, technical leads, security, platform, and operations teams to ensure solutions are delivered using modern engineering practices and architectural best practice (Empowerment).
• Producing and maintaining solution architecture artefacts, architecture decision records, and technical designs, while governing architectural integrity throughout the delivery lifecycle (Responsibility).
• Identifying and managing architectural risks, technical debt, and technology trade-offs to enable informed decision-making and successful programme delivery (Responsibility).
• Contributing to the continuous improvement of architecture standards, reusable patterns, governance, and cloud engineering practices across the organisation (Innovation).
• Providing technical leadership, mentoring architects and engineering teams, and fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and architectural excellence (Responsibility).

This position has been classified as a hybrid role, requiring the selected candidate to typically spend 40-60% of their time collaborating and connecting face-to-face at their dedicated location. Aside from our hybrid principles, other flexible working requests will be considered from the first day of employment, including other work arrangements should you require adjustments due to a disability or…