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BT Group

Solution Architect Specialist

Location:  GBR-Manchester-New Bailey
Location flexibility:  3 office days / week
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Job Description

Job Req ID:63184

Posting Date: 08/10/26

Function: Digital

Location: Manchester, London, Bristol, Leeds , Hybrid Working

SC CLEARANCE REQUIRED

About the role

The Solution Architect Specialist independently executes a range of workstreams in delivering the overall solution architecture design and mapping of business requirements, as well as organises smooth project delivery empowering the implementation of functional solutions that are fit for purpose and delivered against stated business requirements.

What you’ll be doing

• Delivers deep technical and repeatable solutions that achieve customer requirements driving positive outcomes.
• Guides partnerships with business and operational stakeholders to conduct business and technical discovery.
• Implements robust recommendations, proposals and scope of work documents for group engagements while also identifying critical dependencies and gaps.
• Delivers the creation of innovative and repeatable solution architectures to resolve a range of complex solution architecture problems and meet agreed requirements.
• Facilitates business stakeholders' understanding of capabilities and the transformative power of group products, services and technology.
• Drives the team culture of enhancing the solution architect team's knowledge, methodologies and customer-facing collateral.
• Executes alignment with Enterprise Architecture guardrails and solution patterns.
• Contributes to thought leadership and provides advice on a specific set of technologies to help senior leadership shape the long-term direction of solution architecture strategy.
• Delivers complex, strategic initiatives that are a part of the company's overall commercial strategy.
• Champions, continuously develops and shares with team knowledge on emerging trends and changes in solution architecture.
• Mentors other solution architects, helping to improve the team's abilities by acting as a technical resource.
• Act as the technical expert on architecture governance and design authority for development of products and services in line with the published roadmap.

Essential Skills / Experience

  • Solution Architecture: Develops solutions which fit within the enterprise architecture in terms of information architecture, system portfolios and integration requirements.
  • System Design: Defines the architecture, product design, modules, interfaces, and data for a system to satisfy specified requirements.
  • APIs/Web Service Integration: Develops message protocols that allow distributed elements of an application to communicate.

Desirable Skills / Experience

  • Cloud Computing: Uses a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer.
  • Solution Design: Designs the essential core building block's that make up a technical solution.
  • Requirements gathering: Determines user expectations for a new or modified product.
  • Product Roadmapping: Maps out the vision and strategic objectives for a product in a visual way, making it easier for development teams to share and collaborate.
  • Regulatory Compliance: Develops, implements, and enforces compliance to activities which ensure the organisation meets legislative and regulatory requirements.

Our Package

Tailored benefits make a real difference. That’s why we offer a comprehensive range to support your growth, wellbeing, and everyday life. You can design the package to suit you and your lifestyle. Your core benefits include:
• 10% on target annual bonus
• Access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family
• Market-leading paid carers leave with up to 2 weeks off
• Equalized maternity, paternity, and adoption leave – 18 weeks’ full pay and 8 weeks’ half pay
• Discounted EE and BT products, including mobile and broadband
• Market leading Pension scheme – 5% from you and 10% from us
• Holiday purchase scheme
You can select additional benefits, including healthcare, dental, gym memberships and more when you’re ready. Ready to connect for good and help shape the future? Apply now.

Join us at a pivotal moment for BT Business. We are executing a multi-year transformation to restore growth, modernise at scale and unlock new markets beyond connectivity. Our ambition is clear – return to sustainable revenue and EBITDA growth, strengthen our market position, and deliver meaningful shareholder value through disciplined execution and bold reinvention.

We are fundamentally reshaping the business – simplifying our portfolio, digitising our customer experience and building market-leading capability across cyber, AI and managed services, all powered by the UK’s leading fixed and mobile networks. This is a shift from a legacy connectivity provider to a modern, solutions-led, AI-first business that can truly differentiate in a competitive and fast-moving market.

With execution momentum building and a clear path to growth, the opportunity now is to scale what works, accelerate performance and fully realise our potential. This is about delivering against ambitious financial outcomes while transforming how we operate – creating a business that is simpler, faster, more innovative and easier to do business with.

If you want to be part of the team shaping the turnaround of a multi-billion-pound business – and building a stronger, more competitive BT for the future – this is your moment.

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Adoption leave – 18 weeks full pay, 8 weeks half pay, 6 months statutory
Bank holiday swaps
Buy or sell annual leave – buy up to 5 days/year pro rata
Carer’s leave – Two weeks paid leave
Cinema discounts
Coaching
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Enhanced maternity leave – 18 weeks full pay, 8 weeks half pay, 6 months statutory
Enhanced paternity leave – 18 weeks full pay, 8 weeks half pay, 6 months statutory
Enhanced pension match/contribution
Enhanced sick pay – 3 months
Faith rooms
In house training
L&D budget – sponsored accreditation available for certain professions
Learning platform – internal and external learning content via Degreed
Learning license – unlimited access
Lunch and learns
Mental health platform access – Silvercloud
Mentoring
Neonatal leave
Open to job sharing
Open to part time work for some roles
Optional unpaid leave
Private GP service – 24/7 virtual GP access for UK colleagues
Referral bonus
Returnship
Salary sacrifice
Share options
Shared parental leave
Travel loan
Volunteer days – 3 volunteer days per year
Reservist leave
Fertility treatment leave
Pregnancy loss leave
Pregnancy support
Fertility treatment leave
Pregnancy loss leave
Pregnancy support
On-site catering
On-site barista
On-site shower
Modern office
Collaboration spaces
Private booths
On-site wellness room
Open to part-time employees
Open to compressed hours

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