Solution Architect

Job Description

Recruiter: Molly Lees

Hiring Manager: Rohit Kumar

Career Grade:D

Locations: London, Belfast, Ipswich Hybrid 3 days per week

Internal Closing Date: 26th January 2026

Why this job matters

This role will provide technical consultation and domain expertise to business, CTIO and IT teams to ensure development of efficient application systems utilizing established standards, procedures and methodologies. Delivering solutions that meet customer’s requirements, including necessary technical design consultations and driving business performance, efficiency and continuous improvement within the team. . The ideal candidate will be able to identify use cases that can leverage this common data model and provide insights that can help businesses make informed decisions. They should also possess strong skills in Solution leading design, managing stakeholders, and be able to implement solutions that meet client requirements.

What you’ll be doing

• Identifies and implements continuous improvement opportunities to enhance the various teams’ approach towards technology selection and implementation in third party job allocation
• Accountable for all application design, technical solution architecture, development, transformation and modernization for third party job allocation
• Reduce cost of ownership using contemporary technologies and solutions in Product Domain.
• Use industry wide expertise and skills in a number of technological areas and domains (Java and Open Source Stacks) , and actively share with others in teams, projects and professions to create a culture of engineering excellence in the FND domain
• Ways of Working.
• Work with team members including Product Owners and business stakeholders, to overcome adoption challenges and ensure success; for example, to keep focus on business KPIs.

Skills

• Hands-on experience in Digital transformations including migration to cloud-native architectures

• Hands-on experience in owning, architecting, designing, and implementing Microservices in full-stack journeys with micro frontends.

• Ability to identify use cases that leverage common data models and provide insights that can help businesses make informed decisions.

• Experience in AWS and general cloud technologies

• Experience in designing and implementing cloud-based solutions.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills

• Deep expertise of software design patterns and distributed systems architecture

• Deep expertise in architecting and implementing containerised solutions.

• Self-learner & keeps oneself abreast of the business, technology & IT practice changes

• Interest in running POCs for new technologies, analysing considerations, establishing standards, and propagating to wider teams

Our leadership standards

Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• 10% on target bonus
• Life Assurance
• Pension scheme
• Direct share scheme
• Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
• 50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans
• Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
• BT TV with TNT Sports and NOW Entertainment
• 50% discount for friends and family on EE mobile pay monthly and SIM only plans

About us

BT Group was the world’s first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled. As home to several of the UK’s most recognised and cherished brands – BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet, we have always played a critical role in creating the future, and we have reached an inflection point in the transformation of our business.

Over the next two years, we will complete the UK’s largest and most successful digital infrastructure project – connecting more than 25 million premises to full fibre broadband. Together with our heavy investment in 5G, we play a central role in revolutionising how people connect with each other.

While we are through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, meaning we can reward our shareholders for their commitment and patience, we are absolutely focused on how we organise ourselves in the best way to serve our customers in the years to come. This includes radical simplification of systems, structures, and processes on a huge scale. Together with our application of AI and technology, we are on a path to creating the UK’s best telco, reimagining the customer experience and relationship with one of this country’s biggest infrastructure companies.

Change on the scale we will all experience in the coming years is unprecedented. BT Group is committed to being the driving force behind improving connectivity for millions and there has never been a more exciting time to join a company and leadership team with the skills, experience, creativity, and passion to take this company into a new era.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.