Talan

Solution Architect

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1 month ago
London, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Build stakeholder relationships and align solution designs with business objectives, technology strategy, and existing architecture landscapes.
  • Lead solution architecture definition and provide technical leadership throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Establish architecture governance, design assurance, technical delivery frameworks, and decision-making processes.
  • Lead architecture and design reviews while identifying and mitigating risks, dependencies, and technical issues.
  • Provide strategic architecture advice on secure, scalable, and future-ready digital solutions.
  • Support client engagement, solution shaping, bid responses, proposal development, and commercial opportunity identification.
  • Coach and mentor colleagues and contribute to thought leadership, architecture standards, reusable assets, and communities of practice.
  • Shape innovation opportunities involving cloud modernisation, automation, AI-enabled services, secure-by-design architecture, and delivery improvement.

Requirements

  • Proven experience designing and delivering solution architectures for business and technology transformation programmes.
  • Strong solution and enterprise architecture expertise, including secure, resilient, and scalable digital solutions.
  • Experience leading technical design activities, architecture workstreams, and multidisciplinary delivery teams.
  • Strong stakeholder management, business analysis, requirements management, and solution definition capabilities.
  • Experience establishing architecture governance, design assurance, and technical review processes.
  • Experience working in complex or regulated environments and across the full solution lifecycle.
  • Demonstrated ability to act as a trusted expert or strategic advisor to senior stakeholders and clients.
  • Experience mentoring, coaching, or developing colleagues and contributing to thought leadership or practice development.
  • Knowledge of architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, or equivalent.
  • Desirable experience includes energy, utilities, public sector, healthcare, cloud architecture, Microsoft Azure, IAM, PKI, cryptographic solutions, technology risk, information assurance, systems integration, modernisation, pre-sales consultancy, low/no-code automation, and product-led delivery.
  • Relevant certifications such as TOGAF, SABSA, CISSP, or Azure Solutions Architect are desirable.
  • Experience representing an organisation externally through client advisory work, industry forums, conferences, publications, white papers, or specialist networks is desirable.
  • Employees should have sound awareness of the Company's Information, Quality, Environmental, and Energy Management Systems.

Benefits

  • 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays.
  • Flexible working.
  • Subsidised private Bupa healthcare.
  • Life assurance up to four times annual salary.
  • Matched pension contributions.
  • Season Ticket Loan and cycle-to-work scheme.
  • Buy and sell annual leave options.
  • Eye-test reimbursement and up to £50 toward glasses or contacts.
  • Corporate gym rates and an Employee Assistance Programme.
  • Reward and recognition schemes, summer and Christmas parties, and monthly Social@77 events.

Tech Stack

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Solutions Engineering
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About Talan

1,001-5,000 employees
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