Solutions Architect

About Your New Role

Weightmans IT team plays a pivotal role in the firms innovation strategy, enabling digital transformation across departments. The Solutions Architect will be responsible for translating business requirements into appropriate IT solutions in line with business and IT strategy, and designing end‑to‑end solutions, including integrations. This role involves overseeing the architecture and design of technology solutions, leading initiatives through design and planning phases, and ensuring the approved designs are delivered as expected (architecture governance).

In addition, they will establish and own the Architecture/Design Board and the associated process and documentation. The ideal candidate will also contribute to designing our target architecture. The role will report into the Head of Strategic Planning & Governance and will have overall accountability of solution architecture and architectural governance, embedding best practice and frameworks to enable successful technology solutions into Weightmans.

• Translate business requirements into appropriate IT solutions in line with business and IT strategy.
• Design end‑to‑end solutions and integrations.
• Lead and chair the Architecture/Design Board to ensure designs and solutions are governed and documented.
• Work with colleagues to understand pain points in the business in the use of technology and identify solutions.
• Work closely with the Head of Hybrid Platforms on cloud architecture design and migration strategies, ensuring scalability, security and cost optimisation.
• Embed security and compliance requirements into solution design from inception, ensuring proactive risk management.
• Deliver solutions that reduce operational costs, improve system resilience and enhance user experience. Standardisation and Documentation.
• Define and deliver a standardised software request and implementation process resulting in an approved software list.
• Own and maintain full topologies for the estate.
• Identify standardisation and consolidation opportunities across the estate.
• Establish and enforce architectural standards, patterns and best practices across projects and platforms.
• Maintain structured processes, technical documentation and knowledge bases to support architectural excellence and compliance.
• Stakeholder Engagement: collaborate with legal professionals, IT peers, Finance, Risk & Compliance, HR teams and external vendors to deliver solutions meeting business and compliance requirements.
• Continuous Improvement: evaluate emerging technologies and vendors to recommend solutions that drive competitive advantage.
• Champion the organisation’s drive for operational excellence. Employ quality management methodologies (such as Lean, Six Sigma, ITIL) to streamline processes, reduce costs and enhance service value.

• Foster a collaborative, outcome‑driven culture with a focus on technical excellence, service delivery and colleague experience.

• Support project execution using Weightmans project management framework, ensuring solutions are delivered to architectural scope.

• Ensure systems and processes meet legal, regulatory and data protection standards including GDPR, ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials+.

Ideally you will have previous experience of working in a similar role and in a similar environment. As the role is varied, we are looking for you to have a flexible approach to the work you do and be able to adapt to different tasks. We are also looking for you to have:

• Proven experience in solution architecture, enterprise integration and stakeholder engagement within complex environments.
• Certification such as TOGAF, AWS/Azure Architect or similar are desirable.
• Commitment to excellence and continuous improvement.
• Solutions‑oriented visionary and strategic thinker.
• Collaborative leader with a passion for technology and mentoring.
• Knowledge of security, risk management, compliance and data protection.

We encourage candidates to speak to us direct/apply direct for the opportunities we have available.

Come and join our award‑winning organisation and team. Weightmans has been recognised as a leading employer for the 18th consecutive year at Britains Top Employers awards 2025, and ranking 5th in the list. The firm has also secured top positions in Chambers UK.

Embark on this journey with Weightmans towards becoming one of the Top 30 UK Law firms.

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