Solution Architect in Shaftesbury, United Kingdom

Salary: £54,800 - 73,250 per year Requirements:

• Strong communication skills to build trust with stakeholders and influence decision-makers.
• Experience identifying architecturally significant requirements and designing solutions using modelling and diagramming techniques.
• Experience with AWS architecture patterns, including microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, serverless computing, containers, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Robust understanding of event-driven architecture design, data products, microservices, and modern development techniques.
• Innovative approach to solving complex problems and willingness to challenge the status quo.
• Desirable: Proven experience designing and delivering secure, scalable, resilient AWS cloud-native solutions in complex enterprise environments.
• Desirable: Knowledge of authentication and authorisation protocols, including OpenID Connect (OIDC) and OAuth 2.0, and cloud security design principles.
• Desirable: Ability to balance strategic thinking with pragmatic decision-making when solving business and technology challenges.
• Desirable: Curiosity, collaboration, and motivation to deliver technology that solves customer problems.
• Desirable: Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Desirable: Strong problem-solving, analytical thinking, decision-making, leadership, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.

• Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to understand requirements, build trusted relationships, and translate business needs into solution architectures.
• Design secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective AWS cloud-native solutions aligned with enterprise architecture principles, technology standards, and strategic roadmaps.
• Work with engineering, technical lead, security, platform, and operations teams to support delivery using modern engineering practices and architectural best practice.
• Produce and maintain solution architecture artefacts, architecture decision records, and technical designs, and govern architectural integrity throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Identify and manage architectural risks, technical debt, and technology trade-offs to support informed decisions and successful programme delivery.
• Help improve architecture standards, reusable patterns, governance, and cloud engineering practices across our organisation.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor architects and engineering teams, and foster collaboration, continuous learning, and architectural excellence.

• AWS
• Architect
• Cloud
• Support
• OAuth
• OpenID
• Security
• Serverless
• microservices

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We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and part of the University of Cambridge. We are hiring a Solution Architect for our English Enterprise Architecture team to contribute to large-scale technology transformation programmes and support the technology strategy for our English product portfolio. You will join a team of solution and enterprise architects working to deliver high-quality digital platforms and technology that creates lasting business value. The role is permanent, full time at 35 hours per week, with a salary of £54,800–£73,250. It is hybrid in Cambridge, with 40–60% of time typically spent at the dedicated location; other flexible working arrangements and disability-related adjustments will be considered from the first day. We offer 28 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, private medical and Permanent Health Insurance, a discretionary annual bonus, a group personal pension scheme, life assurance up to four times annual salary, and green travel schemes. We are a Disability Confident employer committed to equality and inclusion. We are an approved UK employer for sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Applications close on 23 October, and we review applications on an ongoing basis.

last updated 41 week of 2026