Solution Architect Specialist

Job Description

Why this job matters

As a Solution Architect Specialist, you will be responsible for designing, building, and optimizing advanced messaging solutions that leverage a mix of Java (WebLogic/Spring Boot), React/Angular, and AWS technologies. You will guide the architecture of the customer messaging platform, ensuring a robust and scalable design while adhering to best practices like Clean Architecture and microservices principles.
You will work closely with engineering, product management, and business stakeholders to deliver effective, high-performance messaging solutions across multiple channels.

What you’ll be doing

• Solution Design: Lead the design and architecture of end-to-end messaging solutions using Java (WebLogic/Spring Boot), Microsoft Graphmail API. React/Angular, AWS, SQL, and NoSQL databases, ensuring they meet business needs, scalability, security, and performance standards.
• Clean Architecture/ Microservices Architecture: Apply Clean Architecture principles to ensure modular, testable, and maintainable code that supports long-term business goals. Design microservices-based architectures for handling customer messaging workflows, ensuring high availability and low latency.
• Cloud Solutions: Design and implement solutions leveraging AWS cloud services to provide scalable and cost-effective architectures.
• Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams in implementing solution designs, adhering to best practices, and adopting new technologies.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate with product managers, business analysts, and other teams to gather and define requirements, ensuring technical alignment with business goals.
• Database Architecture: Architect and design SQL and NoSQL database solutions for storing and processing customer data efficiently, ensuring data integrity and security.
• Documentation & Reporting: Prepare and maintain architectural documentation, roadmaps, and technical specifications to ensure clear communication with stakeholders.
• Continuous Improvement: Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and innovations in software architecture, cloud computing, and messaging technologies to ensure British Telecom’s messaging platform remains at the forefront of the industry.

Requirements

Required Skills and Experience:
• 10-12 years of professional experience as a Solution Architect in software development, with a focus on customer messaging systems.
• Strong experience with Java (WebLogic, Spring Boot) and web technologies (React/Angular).
• Expertise in designing cloud-based solutions, particularly on AWS, with hands-on experience in services like EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, and API Gateway.
• Experience in SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB) and data architecture principles.
• Solid understanding of Clean Architecture/ Microservices architecture, System design patterns.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor development teams, ensuring high-quality delivery and adherence to best practices.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to innovate in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders and clearly explain technical concepts.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Good to have certifications such as:
o AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
o TOGAF Certification for enterprise architecture

Desired Competencies:
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments and participating in agile ceremonies (stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and tools like Jenkins, GitLab, or AWS CodePipeline.
• Knowledge of modern messaging protocols (e.g., IBM MQ, Rabbit MQ, Kafka, Weblogic JMS) and integration patterns for high-throughput messaging systems.
• Ability to design for high availability, disaster recovery, and fault tolerance in messaging systems.

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.

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.