Job Description

Solution Architect (Azure, Event Driven, Cloud Native) Watford
The Opportunity
An established organisation is entering a multi-year technology transformation following sustained growth, geographic expansion, and multiple acquisitions. The focus is on modernising platforms, reducing technical debt, and designing scalable, secure architectures that will support the business for the next decade.
This is a strategic Solution Architect role, you will shape end-to-end architectures, define future-state platforms, and act as the technical authority across product, engineering, and leadership.
The Role
You will define and drive target-state solution architectures aligned to business strategy, product roadmaps, and long-term transformation goals. This includes modern cloud platforms, data architecture, integration patterns, automation, and secure-by-design systems.
You will work across greenfield initiatives and complex legacy estates inherited through acquisition, balancing speed, cost, and long-term sustainability.

• Multi-year architecture roadmaps
• Platform consolidation and modernisation
• Technical debt reduction and lifecycle management
• Scalable, secure, highly available IoT solutions
• Strong alignment between business outcomes and technical decisions

Key Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end solution architectures across software, systems, and platforms
• Produce target architecture blueprints, logical flows, system interactions, and contracts
• Lead architectural decisions that support long-term scalability, security, and operability
• Evaluate legacy platforms and recommend remediation, replacement, or consolidation

• Work closely with Engineering Leads and Product to ensure solutions are implemented as designed
• Review implementations for architectural alignment and challenge where required
• Maintain high-quality architectural documentation aligned to delivered solutions
• Ensure solutions align to agreed standards, security principles, and DevOps practices

• Influence data architecture, data models, and integration frameworks
• Keep architecture standards current and fit for future needs
• Stay ahead of relevant technology trends and emerging approaches

Experience & Background

• Proven experience leading architecture-led transformation programmes
• Background as a Solution Architect or Solution Designer on complex platforms
• Strong understanding of cloud, platform engineering, APIs, messaging, and workflow systems
• Comfortable operating across legacy systems and modern cloud-native architectures
• Strong commercial awareness and evidence-based decision makingCloud platforms and platform engineering
• API and integration architecture

• Message buses and event-driven systems
• Data architecture and modelling

Why This Role

• Genuine multi-year transformation, not a one-off project
• High impact on business direction and platform strategy
• Senior-level influence without people management overhead
• Backed by long-term investment and executive sponsorship

Solution Architect (Azure, Event Driven, Cloud Native) Watford
RSG Plc is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Skills Required