Solution Architect - Digital Platforms

The Solution Architect will be responsible for shaping pragmatic, scalable and secure solution designs across public cloud services, system integration, and web and mobile application architecture. The role will focus on server-side architecture, integration patterns, and the design of solutions that support business outcomes while aligning with technology standards, delivery needs and architectural governance.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and document solution architectures for web and mobile applications, with a particular focus on server-side architecture.
• Design solutions that make effective use of public cloud services and support scalable, secure and maintainable delivery.
• Shape integration approaches across systems, including synchronous and asynchronous integration architectures where appropriate.
• Work with stakeholders, engineering teams and delivery teams to translate business and technical requirements into clear solution designs.
• Provide architectural guidance throughout delivery, supporting design decisions, trade-offs and technical issue resolution.
• Contribute to architecture governance and assurance activities, ensuring solution designs align with agreed standards and principles.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies and constraints, and support pragmatic decision-making to enable successful delivery.
• Collaborate across technical and business teams to ensure solutions are well understood, deliverable and aligned to intended outcomes.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Experience designing solutions using public cloud services.
• Strong understanding of system integration principles and patterns.
• Experience with web application architecture.
• Experience designing server-side architecture for web and mobile applications.
• Ability to translate business and technical requirements into clear, practical solution designs.
• Experience working with stakeholders and delivery teams to support solution delivery.
• Understanding of architectural governance, assurance and technical decision-making.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Experience with GCP services.
• Experience with Azure services.
• Knowledge of Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM).
• Experience with synchronous integration architectures.
• Experience with asynchronous integration architectures.
• Broader experience across web and mobile application architecture.

What Success Looks Like

• Solution designs are clear, well structured and aligned to business and technical requirements.
• Architecture decisions are pragmatic, understood by stakeholders and supportive of successful delivery.
• Public cloud, integration and server-side architecture choices are appropriate, scalable and maintainable.
• Delivery teams have the architectural guidance they need to progress confidently.
• Governance and assurance activities are supported with clear rationale, documented decisions and appropriate challenge.
• Technical risks, dependencies and trade-offs are identified early and managed effectively.
• Solutions demonstrate strong alignment between business needs, technology standards and delivery feasibility.

Candidate Profile

The successful candidate will be a capable Solution Architect with strong experience across public cloud, system integration and web application architecture. They will be comfortable working across business and technical stakeholders, able to explain complex architectural decisions clearly, and focused on designing practical solutions that can be delivered effectively. They will bring a collaborative approach, sound technical judgement and the ability to balance strategic architecture direction with delivery realities.

Working arrangements

• This is a remote role, with an expectation to attend the Ty Admiral Cardiff office once per month or as and when required.

Admiral: Where You Can

We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It's a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We’re committed to fostering a people-first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service.

Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave.

We’re proud of our people-first culture. In fact, we've been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We’re fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics.

Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work-life balance; You can view some of our other key benefits here.

Disability Confident Leader

As a Disability Confident Leader, for candidates with a disability or long-term health condition, that opt into the Disability Confident scheme, we’ll invite a fair and proportionate number of applicants that meet the essential requirements of the role to the first stage of our selection process.

If you need any adjustments or support with your application or during the recruitment process, just let us know. Please do email us or contact us on 07386697107. This number is dedicated to supporting candidates that require reasonable adjustments or support during the application process.

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