Solutions Architect (Applications/Integrations)
Posted 1 week ago by Sellick Partnership
£82,000 Per year
Fixed-Term
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Integration Solution Architect will join a leading UK organization on a 12-month fixed-term contract, focusing on designing and delivering scalable integration solutions. This role requires collaboration with various teams to define integration strategies and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles. The successful candidate will leverage their expertise in integration platforms and architecture to support critical business operations. This position offers a predominantly remote working arrangement with occasional office attendance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and deliver end-to-end integration architectures across applications, data platforms, and external partners.
- Collaborate with application, integration, data and infrastructure teams to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles and standards.
- Translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Lead architecture workshops, discovery sessions and stakeholder engagement activities.
- Produce high-quality architecture documentation, roadmaps and design artefacts.
- Define and promote reusable integration patterns, standards and governance frameworks.
- Ensure solutions meet performance, scalability, security and operational support requirements.
- Participate in architecture review boards and governance forums.
- Identify risks, dependencies and opportunities throughout project lifecycles.
- Provide architectural guidance to delivery teams throughout implementation.
Key Skills:
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to facilitate technical and business workshops.
- Excellent documentation and architecture modelling capabilities.
- Strong understanding of security, privacy and compliance considerations.
- Experience working within enterprise governance frameworks.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Salary (Rate): £82,000.00 yearly
City: London Area
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: fixed-term
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
Integration Solution Architect (12-Month Fixed-Term Contract) Base salary of up to £82,000 Location : Predominantly remote role with attendance required at the office approximately twice per month.
Overview A leading UK organisation is seeking an experienced Integration Solution Architect to join its technology team on a 12-month fixed-term contract. This is an excellent opportunity for a highly skilled architect with strong enterprise integration experience to play a key role in designing, governing and delivering scalable, secure, and resilient integration solutions across a complex technology landscape. The successful candidate will work closely with business stakeholders, application teams, data specialists, infrastructure teams and delivery partners to define integration strategies, establish best practices, and deliver robust solutions that support critical business operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and deliver end-to-end integration architectures across applications, data platforms, and external partners.
- Collaborate with application, integration, data and infrastructure teams to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles and standards.
- Translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Lead architecture workshops, discovery sessions and stakeholder engagement activities.
- Produce high-quality architecture documentation, roadmaps and design artefacts.
- Define and promote reusable integration patterns, standards and governance frameworks.
- Ensure solutions meet performance, scalability, security and operational support requirements.
- Participate in architecture review boards and governance forums.
- Identify risks, dependencies and opportunities throughout project lifecycles.
- Provide architectural guidance to delivery teams throughout implementation.
Required Experience
Integration Platforms Strong experience with one or more of the following: IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE) IBM API Connect (APIC) MuleSoft Anypoint Platform Axway API Management Integration Architecture & Design Proven experience designing and implementing: API-led architectures Event-driven architectures (EDA) Publish/subscribe and message-based integrations Request/response and orchestration patterns Hybrid integration solutions spanning cloud and on-premise environments Reusable, loosely coupled and scalable integration frameworks API Strategy & Governance Experience with: API lifecycle management API security (OAuth2, OpenID Connect, JWT) API versioning and governance API gateways and developer portals File & Data Integration Strong understanding of: Batch processing and bulk data movement Secure file transfer technologies (SFTP, FTPS, Managed File Transfer) Structured file formats including CSV, XML and JSON Data mapping and transformation Canonical data models Data synchronisation strategies Data governance and quality considerations DevOps & Delivery Knowledge of: CI/CD pipelines Version control and release management Integration testing approaches Contract and end-to-end testing methodologies
Key Skills
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Ability to facilitate technical and business workshops
- Excellent documentation and architecture modelling capabilities
- Strong understanding of security, privacy and compliance considerations
- Experience working within enterprise governance frameworks
- Ability to communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
What's on Offer
Base salary of up to £82,000 10% annual performance bonus Car allowance or company vehicle Comprehensive benefits package Flexible and collaborative working environment Opportunity to shape enterprise integration strategy within a large-scale technology environment Sellick Partnership is proud to be an inclusive and accessible recruitment business and we support applications from candidates of all backgrounds and circumstances. Please note, our advertisements use years' experience, hourly rates, and salary levels purely as a guide and we assess applications based on the experience and skills evidenced on the CV. For information on how your personal details may be used by Sellick Partnership, please review our data processing notice on our website.