Solution Architect Internal Services

£90,000 - £120,000 GBP

Onsite WORKING

Location: Manchester, Central London, Greater London - United Kingdom Type: Permanent

We're looking for an experienced Senior Solution Architect to lead the design and delivery of innovative AI-enabled products, platforms and digital services.

This is an exciting opportunity to work at the forefront of AI, cloud and enterprise technology, partnering with business leaders, product teams and engineers to design secure, scalable and resilient solutions that deliver real business value.

You'll take ownership of architecture from early discovery and solution design through to engineering delivery, deployment and live operation, while influencing technical strategy across multiple transformation programmes.

What You'll Be Doing

• Own the end-to-end architecture for AI-enabled products, platforms and digital services.
• Translate business objectives and customer needs into practical, scalable technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership throughout the delivery lifecycle, supporting engineering teams from design through implementation.
• Guide architectural decision-making, balancing technical trade-offs, security, scalability and operational resilience.
• Design responsible AI solutions with a focus on governance, security, privacy, and performance.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Engineering, Security, Data and Platform teams to define reusable standards and architectural best practices.
• Develop reference architectures, reusable patterns and technical blueprints to improve future delivery.
• Stay current with emerging AI technologies, cloud platforms and modern architecture practices.
• Support client engagements, technical proposals, RFPs and solution workshops.
• Mentor Solution Architects and technical delivery teams, helping to build architecture capability across the organisation.

What We're Looking For

• Significant experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale technology solutions from discovery through to production.
• Strong Solution Architecture experience across complex digital transformation programmes.
• Excellent understanding of cloud-native architecture, ideally within Azure, AWS or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience designing AI-enabled solutions, including Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI agents and orchestration frameworks.
• Strong understanding of APIs, system integration, identity, security, DevSecOps, observability and resilient platform design.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams and influencing technical direction.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts to both business and technical audiences.
• Experience contributing to bids, proposals, technical solution design and client presentations.
• Passion for emerging technologies and building scalable, production-ready AI solutions.

Key Skills

• Solution Architecture
• Enterprise Architecture
• AI Solutions
• Generative AI
• Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
• AI Agents
• Agentic AI
• Cloud Architecture
• Azure
• AWS
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Cloud-Native Development
• API Design
• Systems Integration
• DevSecOps
• Identity & Access Management
• Security Architecture
• Technical Leadership
• Digital Transformation
• Platform Engineering
• Microservices
• Distributed Systems
• Solution Design
• Architecture Governance
• Technical Strategy
• Engineering Leadership
• Stakeholder Management
• Pre-sales
• RFP/RFI Support
• Mentoring & Coaching

If you are a solution architect and feel this is a role for you we'd love to hear from you.