IT & Software

Solution Architect

Yorkshire Water

Bradford · West Yorkshire · United Kingdom

Overview

As Solution Architect – Integration & AI, you will shape enterprise-scale Azure-based solutions and drive secure, scalable integration across the technology landscape. You’ll translate business needs into future-ready designs, lead API-led and event-driven architecture, and champion AI capabilities with governance and security in mind. You’ll collaborate with stakeholders, engineering teams and platform specialists to ensure reliable delivery and measurable business value. This is an opportunity to influence the technology roadmap while supporting customer service excellence and environmental objectives.

Pay / Benefits
  • Salary up to 70,000
  • Company car lease/allowance
  • EV salary sacrifice option
  • Annual incentive bonus up to 10% (15% in later year)
  • Private healthcare (self)
  • Pension scheme up to 12% company contribution与? workaround
Responsibilities
  • Collaborate with stakeholders and delivery teams to translate business needs into innovative solution designs
  • Design and govern scalable, secure, and highly available Azure-based solutions
  • Drive adoption of AI capabilities using Azure AI services with governance and observability
  • Participate in architecture forums to evolve standards and frameworks
  • Promote API-led and event-driven architectures for connectivity and scalability
  • Provide technical leadership to engineering teams for robust, high-quality solutions
  • Establish and uphold governance across APIs, integrations and platform services
  • Lead modernization of legacy integration platforms to cloud-native Azure solutions
  • Act as a trusted advisor influencing cloud and integration roadmap
Key requirements
  • Proven Solution Architect experience in a Microsoft Azure environment
  • Strong knowledge of integration architecture, API design and messaging patterns
  • Experience designing secure, scalable cloud architectures
  • Hands-on experience with Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus and API Management
  • Working knowledge of C#, Python for automation/integration/AI solutions
  • Understanding of Databricks and modern data architectures
  • Experience with Power Platform via APIs and enterprise integration patterns
  • Experience with Agile, DevOps, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code
  • Solid security, identity, access management and data protection knowledge
  • Excellent stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills
  • Familiarity with the Microsoft Well-Architected Framework and governance practices
  • Stakeholder management
  • Clear communication
  • Influencing and collaboration
  • Azure Functions
  • Azure Logic Apps
  • Azure Service Bus

Reference: WJ-747_30999918

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