About the position
An exciting opportunity is available for a highly skilled Solution Architect to join a leading telecommunications environment and drive innovative architecture solutions within the Digital Services domain. This role is ideal for a strategic thinker with strong technical leadership capabilities and proven experience delivering enterprise-scale transformation programmes.
You will be responsible for designing end-to-end solutions, guiding delivery teams, managing complex integrations, and ensuring all architecture outputs align with enterprise standards, governance, and long-term business strategy.
Key Responsibilities
Solution Design & Architecture
- Lead the analysis, modelling, design, and documentation of complex multi-application business and technical solutions.
- Drive solution architecture delivery across the full systems development lifecycle.
- Ensure alignment to enterprise architecture frameworks, principles, standards, and policies across business, application, data, security, integration, and infrastructure domains.
- Design scalable, sustainable, and future-ready digital solutions that meet business and IT requirements.
- Create architecture roadmaps, transition states, and future-state solution models.
- Develop high-level and detailed solution designs, technical diagrams, and architecture artefacts.
- Deliver architecture solutions across Web, Mobile, IoT, Digital Platforms, and Customer Experience channels.
Stakeholder & Relationship Management
- Partner closely with business leaders, product owners, programme managers, and customer experience teams.
- Build strong relationships with architecture, engineering, operations, and vendor teams.
- Facilitate workshops and technical discussions with internal and external stakeholders.
- Present solution strategies to steering committees and executive leadership.
- Manage architecture risks, dependencies, and delivery escalations effectively.
Governance & Delivery Excellence
- Ensure all architecture deliverables comply with governance frameworks and industry best practices (TOGAF, TM Forum, etc.).
- Maintain architecture repositories and ensure documentation is current, complete, and accurate.
- Oversee third-party system integrators and vendors to successful delivery outcomes.
- Ensure solution quality, sustainability, cost-efficiency, and operational readiness.
RequirementsTechnical Expertise
- 3–5+ years’ experience in Solution Architecture / Enterprise Architecture.
- Proven experience delivering complex third-party integration solutions.
- Strong knowledge of Digital Platforms, APIs, Cloud, Security, and large-scale enterprise systems.
- Experience with front-end and back-end solution design.
- Understanding of UX/UI design principles and customer journey flows.
- Knowledge of software design principles including Object-Oriented Design, Functional Programming, and APIs.
- Experience with architecture tools, repositories, and modelling techniques.
Business & Leadership Skills
- Strong strategic thinking and analytical capability.
- Excellent stakeholder management across all seniority levels.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Proven leadership, influencing, negotiation, and decision-making ability.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
- Innovative mindset with a passion for continuous improvement and digital transformation.
Qualifications
- Degree or Postgraduate Degree in:
- Information Technology
- Computer Science
- Engineering
Desired Skills:
- Digital Platforms
- APIs
- Cloud
- Security
Desired Qualification Level:
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