Senior Solution Architect

** End Date
** Monday 16 February 2026
** Salary Range**£72,702 - £80,780
** Flexible Working Options
** Flexibility in when hours are worked, Hybrid Working, Job Share
** Job Description Summary**.
** Job Description
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* Job Title:

** Senior Solutions Architect  
** Salary:** £72,702 - £80,780  
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* Location:

** Bristol, Edinburgh, Manchester, Leeds  
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* Hours:

** Full time
** Working Pattern:
** Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently at one of the above offices.

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose.
** About this opportunity
** The purpose of the Senior Solution Architect is to design and communicate the technology solutions with an architectural significance that deliver our key outcomes or epics, They create the designs to meet our quality, resilience and technical objectives. They contribute to the definition of the solution architecture forward look.

You'll help accelerate the delivery of business applications to our strategic cloud platforms, supporting and empowering our business to deliver the very best technical solutions quickly & safely.

You’ll be working alongside
** Lead*
* ** Solution Architects and Engineering Teams
** bringing and expert knowledge of Infrastructure Architecture in order to
** design
* * and
** deliver Hybrid Cloud
** solutions across our private and public cloud hosted environments to enable product delivery and transformation.

We’ll look to you to influence and promote collaboration across business platforms and labs on the solution delivery. Partnering with platform and business teams to you’ll elaborate the solution and the infrastructure components, validating technology assumptions and helping make complex design decisions.
* Align to a business platform responsible for a banking product or service, where we influence their strategy and direction.
* Owning the hybrid cloud design and governance, driving resolution through iteration focussing on resilience, simplicity and with sustainability in mind.
* Turning requirements and specifications into hybrid cloud designs; shaping key design decisions and iterating ideas as you go.
* Providing consultancy and cost estimates, to ensure your business platform can budget accordingly and make informed strategic decisions.
* Using your experience of leading Suppliers, SMEs and Supply Lines to write work packages that are clear, understood and delivered on time.
* Support the wide function to enable the automation of key infrastructure blueprints and patterns.
* Taking a lead in all aspects of infrastructure throughout the delivery lifecycle, including:
* Working with Lead Solution Architects and Senior Solution Archtect to design and deliver hybrid cloud designs.
* Working with labs to formulate plans and understand costs for any technical delivery.
* Engaging suppliers and internal delivery teams to deliver in an agile manner.
* Coordinating build activities with internal or 3rd party service providers
* Collaborating with service owners to ensure systems are properly tested and supported following go-live
** What you’ll need
*** Experienced in the design/architecture of Hybrid Cloud solutions in an enterprise environment, e.g. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Middleware, Storage, Network and Databases.
* Experience of Public & Private Cloud Platforms, concepts and technologies including Azure, GCP and AWS.
* Integration Architecture across private and public cloud platforms.
* Skilled at producing quality concise design documentation.
* Hands-On experience of end-to-end project delivery, working with Agile delivery models including modern software development and deployment practices
* Understanding of building applications through containerised microservices-based architectures.
* Be able to provide technical leadership in a complex multi-vendor environment.
* The ability to communicate and collaborate complex technical concepts clearly to peers and leadership level colleagues.
** About working for us
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