Lead Solution Architect

Overview

Job reference 332984 — Lead Solution Architect. Competitive salary plus car allowance, healthcare, 18% annual bonus potential, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising with service and a company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates. Permanent, Full time. Hybrid working in London Farringdon with three days in the office.

Lead Solution Architect

We're looking for a Lead Solution Architect to build and lead a team of architects supporting RMG's operations, commercial, and technology platforms. You'll ensure IT projects are architected to best practice, aligned with RMG standards, and consistently engineered across suppliers, technologies, and methodologies.

• Plan demand and ensure the right mix of architecture skills and resources.

• Line manage and develop Solution Architects, empowering decision making with governance support.

• Drive training and eliminate single points of failure.

• Translate project blueprints into solution designs, escalating deviations where needed.

• Assure quality control, peer review, and risk communication to stakeholders.

• Collaborate with Technology Directors and governance forums to balance competing needs.

• Establish best in class ways of working, embedding engineering early in sprints.

• Lead stakeholder meetings to balance delivery pressures with long term technology health.

• Understand SAP products and their alignment to business processes.

• Experience with SAP implementations across multiple products, particularly SAP S/4
  
  HANA. Knowledge and expertise in identifying, validating, classifying, designing and assuring solutions to fill gaps surfaced in SAP Fit2
  
  Standard workshops.

• SAP Business Technology Platform experience in designing solutions to fill gaps with custom extensions and enhancements.

• Integration Suite experience to define the use of the Integration Suite to deliver interfaces.

• Experience in implementations where older systems transitioned to new SAP environments.

• Proven experience leading architecture teams, setting standards, and coaching solution architects.

• Capability to define technology roadmaps, assess emerging technologies, and align them with organizational goals. Ability to balance technical excellence with cost efficiency and deliver measurable business value.

• Mastery of complex systems architecture design and delivery.

• Experience in large scale digital transformation programmes.

• Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences.

• Hands-on experience with Jira, Confluence, and Agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban).

• Architecture qualifications (TOGAF, Microsoft Azure, AWS) preferred.

Apply now to lead the architecture function at RMG and shape the future of our technology estate.

• Family friendly support — enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave.

• Discounts and offers — there are more than 800 offers to help you save on groceries, days out, holidays and household bills. Available to permanent employees.

• Supportive and generous company sick pay.

• Your Wellbeing — 24/7 access to services and tools for physical and mental health, financial and social support and advice. Free for everyone.

The next stage of the selection process will be a face-to-face or virtual interview consisting of competency-based and role-specific questions.

Royal Mail Group is committed to inclusion and representing the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all individuals and are a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant, encouraging applications from the Armed Forces community, including cadet instructors and spouses/partners.

If you require any adjustments to support you during the hiring process, please discuss these with your recruiter when contacted.

Closing Date: 29 June 2026. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.

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