Solution Architect Job Lincoln area,England UK,IT/Tech

An Introduction to Codal

Codal is an award-winning web design and development consultancy that helps enterprise organizations solve complex problems and accelerate growth through elegant, data-driven digital solutions. Our areas of expertise include application modernization, eCommerce, UX/UI design, product strategy, data analytics, and artificial intelligence.

An Introduction to Codal

At Codal, you will collaborate with some of the most innovative organizations in the world and work on cutting-edge technologies that push the boundaries of design and software development. We promote long-term success, not just for our clients but for our team, helping you develop a professional roadmap that takes your career to new heights.

Codal is looking for a Solution Architect who can look at a client's technology landscape, understand what's working, what isn't, and chart a credible path forward. You'll design and defend end-to-end solutions across software, systems, data, AI, and Dev Ops, translating ambiguous business goals into architectures that are practical to build and easy to evolve.

This is a hands-on and client-facing role. You'll move between whiteboard sessions with client executives, deep technical design work, and hands-on prototyping to prove out an approach before committing a team to it. You're comfortable weighing cost, timeline, risk, and maintainability against each other, then making a recommendation and standing behind it.

We expect this role to embody Codal’s principles of mindful excellence, insatiable expertise, diverse intuition, data-led curiosity, and candid leadership in how you lead technically, mentor your team, and engage with clients.

Who You'll Be Working With

You’ll work alongside client stakeholders, from engineering leads to executive sponsors, as well as Codal's project managers, designers, and delivery teams. You’ll be involved from early discovery and pre-sales conversations through hands-on implementation and post-launch support.

Responsibilities

Assess a client's existing technology landscape (software, systems, data, and infrastructure) and rationalize the pros, cons, and risks of what's in place versus what's proposed.
Design end-to-end solution architectures spanning application, data, AI/ML, and Dev Ops concerns, and document them clearly enough for both engineers and executives to act on.
Present and defend architecture recommendations to client stakeholders, including technical leads and executive sponsors, with support from Codal's delivery and account teams.
Support discovery, technical planning, and pre-sales conversations, translating client goals and constraints into a scoped, deliverable technical approach.
Create and maintain architecture decision records that capture the trade-offs considered and the reasoning behind each major decision.
Guide engineering teams through implementation, staying hands-on where needed (prototyping, code review, unblocking hard technical problems) without holding up delivery.
Evaluate emerging tools, platforms, and AI capabilities, and bring forward recommendations that would meaningfully improve a client's solution or delivery speed.
Partner with Dev Ops, data, and engineering leads to align architecture with CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and data platform realities on the ground.
Mentor engineers and technical leads on architectural thinking, not just implementation, helping the broader team reason about systems, not just code.
Support planning, estimation, and risk management across the project lifecycle, flagging architectural risk early.

What You'll Need to Be Successful

9+ years of hands-on software or systems engineering experience, including experience designing and owning architecture for complex, client-facing solutions.
Understanding and ability to solve complex client problems that will impact…