Solutions Architect

Irwin Mitchell is investing significantly in its data and analytics capability and is looking for an experienced Solutions Architect to play a pivotal role in shaping our data architecture. This is a design‑led Solutions Architect role — you’ll guide and assure solutions rather than write production code.

• Lead the solution and architectural design of the firm’s Lakehouse platform, ensuring it supports core management systems and other large‑scale enterprise platforms.
• Design how data is exposed and consumed through API‑led architectures, enabling scalable data sharing and automation across the business.
• Shape the future data ecosystem, integrating new internal and external data sources into the Lakehouse.
• Work with data analytics, engineering, and insight teams to ensure architecture supports advanced analytics, Power BI, and operational use cases.
• Define how data outputs embed into downstream systems and workflows (e.g. Microsoft Dynamics, 3E, Success Factors).
• Act as a key advisor to system owners across the business, helping them access and leverage data safely and effectively.
• Partner with Procurement to ensure any new technology aligns with the Lakehouse and wider architectural standards.
• Contribute to future‑state thinking around AI‑enabled solutions, including automation, recommendations, and insight‑driven workflows.
• Produce high‑quality architecture artefacts (logical, physical, integration designs) and present them clearly to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

• Lakehouse architecture (Databricks)
• Azure‑based data platform
• API‑led integration and API Management
• Power BI built directly on the Lakehouse
• Strong alignment with the Microsoft ecosystem (Dynamics, Azure Dev Ops, enterprise platforms)

• Proven experience in a Solutions Architect role, ideally within large, complex organisations.
• Strong understanding of modern data architectures, including:
• Data pipelines and data at scale
• API‑based data integration
• Lakehouse concepts and platforms (e.g. Databricks)
• Experience designing solutions within regulated environments.
• Comfortable working across business and technology teams, influencing senior stakeholders.
• Experience producing clear architectural designs and governance artefacts.

• Exposure to AI, machine learning or automation use cases, such as recommendation engines, next‑best‑action, or GenAI.
• Experience with in professional services or similarly complex, knowledge‑led organisations.

• Architecture Team including Solutions and Enterprise Architects, all with a strong cloud focus.
• Data Analytics, Data Engineering, and Insight leaders.
• System owners, senior business stakeholders, and Procurement teams.

• 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays; ability to purchase up to 35hrs of extra holiday.
• Generous and flexible pension schemes.
• Volunteering days – Two paid days of volunteering every year for a cause of choice.
• Westfield Health membership offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.

Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.