Solution Architect

Welcome to Yorkshire Water. We’re looking for a Solution Architect – Integration & AI to join our Technology team and help deliver secure, scalable, and resilient cloud‑based solutions.

• Partner with business stakeholders, solution architects and delivery teams to understand business needs and translate them into innovative, future‑ready solution designs.
• Design, shape and govern scalable, secure and highly available solutions using Microsoft Azure technologies, ensuring they meet current and future business demands.
• Drive the adoption of AI‑powered capabilities by integrating Azure AI services into solutions, ensuring they are secure, compliant, observable and aligned with governance standards.
• Play an active role in architecture forums and design authorities, championing best practice and contributing to the continuous evolution of architectural standards and frameworks.
• Promote and embed API‑led and event‑driven architecture principles across programmes, enabling seamless connectivity, scalability and reusability.
• Provide expert technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams, supporting the successful delivery of robust, high‑quality solutions.
• Define, establish and uphold governance standards across APIs, integrations and platform services, ensuring consistency, reliability and security.
• Lead and support the transformation of legacy integration platforms, driving the transition to modern, cloud‑native Azure integration solutions that enhance agility and performance.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor, influencing strategic technology decisions and helping shape the organisation’s cloud and integration roadmap.

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect within a Microsoft Azure environment.
• Strong knowledge of integration architecture, API design and messaging patterns.
• Experience designing secure, scalable and resilient cloud‑based architectures.
• Hands‑on experience with Azure services such as Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus and API Management.
• Working knowledge of C#, Python, particularly for automation, integration or AI‑enabled solutions.
• A key understanding of Databricks and modern data architectures.
• Experience integrating Power Platform solutions through APIs and enterprise integration patterns.
• Experience with Agile, Dev Ops, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code.
• A strong understanding of security, identity, access management and data protection.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills.
• Familiarity with the Microsoft Well‑Architected Framework and best practice architecture governance.

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