Solutions Architect

As O2 Business, we seek a Solutions Architect to translate business needs into scalable, secure, and cost-effective architectures. You will own end-to-end solution designs and guide delivery, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and governance. You will translate requirements into artefacts, data flows, and integration patterns, collaborating with cross-functional teams. You will shape how complex systems support business outcomes across cloud, SaaS, and integration domains. Join a collaborative, growth-focused team driving the next chapter of our brand.

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays, with extra day per year of service
• Birthday day off
• Referral bonus
• Professional development
• Eye care vouchers
• Virgin media and O2 deals

• Design and own end-to-end solution architectures meeting business, technical, security, operational, and non-functional requirements
• Translate business requirements into clear technical solutions, artefacts, integration patterns, and implementation approaches
• Define and document system architectures, integrations, data flows, dependencies, assumptions, and key decisions
• Select technologies, platforms, integration methods, and deployment approaches to support current and future needs
• Collaborate with Capabilities Team to align solutions with requirements and strategic objectives
• Work with Technical Delivery Teams to ensure practical, supportable implementations aligned with architecture principles
• Provide architectural leadership and support teams in resolving challenges, risks, and design decisions
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, security, governance, and roadmaps; provide governance throughout solution lifecycle

• Proven experience designing and delivering end-to-end architectures for complex, business-critical systems
• Strong background in software development, systems design, and enterprise integration
• Experience across applications, integration, data, cloud platforms, and infrastructure
• Hands-on experience with cloud technologies, particularly Azure, and modern patterns (APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, integration platforms)
• Solid understanding of security, identity management, resilience, scalability, performance, and supportability
• Experience integrating SaaS, cloud, and third-party platforms using APIs, middleware, messaging, and data integration

• Azure
• APIs
• Microservices
• Event-driven architecture
• Integration platforms
• Security and identity management