Hybrid Senior Manager – Solution Architect

at Squarcle

• Job title: Senior Manager – Solution Architect
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Postgraduate Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Google Cloud Platform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Bristol, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Manager Solution Architect leading architectural delivery and client engagements within Squarcle’s Digital Capability team. Responsible for mentoring consultants and driving solution design across multiple industries.

Responsibilities

• Portfolio & Engagement Leadership: Oversee architectural delivery across multiple concurrent client engagements. Act as the primary technical escalation point for manager level consultants and below.
• Strategic & Solution Architecture Design: Develop and implement holistic technical and enterprise architectures that meet complex business needs, ensure interoperability, and adhere to TOGAF standards. This includes designing scalable data architectures, data models, schemas, and API integrations for real-time and batch processing.
• Senior Leadership Advisory & Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with client executives, product managers, and business stakeholders to translate strategic business visions and requirements into robust, cost-effective technical roadmaps.
• Practice Building & Capability Development: Assist the Chief Enterprise Architect and Head of Digital in developing Squarcle’s digital capabilities and maturing the holistic architectural team (spanning EAs, SAs, BAs, and TAs).
• Governance, Standards & Security: Define and enforce technical governance. Design secure architectures based on relevant Security Architecture principles, e.g. TOGAF. Ensure all solutions comply with enterprise policies, security, data protection, and relevant government standards (e.g., GDS, DDAT).
• Business Development & Innovation: Actively participate in pre-sales, bid writing, and technical proposal development. Stay abreast of emerging technologies, design patterns, and best practices to continuously improve and innovate solutions.
• Team Leadership & Mentorship: Line manage, mentor, and conduct performance reviews for manager level consultants and below. Share knowledge on emerging technologies and cultivate an inclusive, high-performing team culture.
• Risk Management & System Integration: Identify potential technical risks and design mitigation strategies across portfolios. Oversee integration between various systems and platforms, ensuring compatibility, security, and efficiency.
• Documentation & Communication: Produce clear, comprehensive technical documentation and communicate architecture decisions effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• TOGAF Certification & Architecture Frameworks: Extensive proven experience applying architecture frameworks (Business, Data, Application, Security, and Technology) aligned to TOGAF's ADM phases to solve business problems and create scalable, efficient solutions.
• Senior Delivery Experience: A proven track record of operating at a Senior Manager/Lead Architect level, overseeing multiple project teams and managing multi-million-pound technology transformations.
• Supply Chain Acumen: Deep understanding and consultative experience designing resilient, modern supply chain architectures.
• Cloud Architecture: Extensive experience with cloud platforms (Azure primarily, AWS, GCP) and the design of scalable, secure, cloud-native architectures.
• Executive Communication: Exceptional interpersonal skills (written and verbal) with the proven ability to translate complex technical paradigms to non-technical executives and influence strategic decision-making.
• Governance & Assurance: Strong understanding of architecture governance processes, design authorities, and compliance standards aligned with DDAT and GDS.
• Agile/DevOps Leadership: Experience embedding architectural governance within scaled Agile and DevOps delivery environments to align architecture with delivery roadmaps.
• Leadership & Mentoring: Demonstrable experience line-managing senior consultants, building multi-disciplinary inclusive teams, and conducting formal performance appraisals.
• Security & Risk Management: In-depth understanding of secure system design, encryption, authentication, and strong risk identification/mitigation skills utilising industry-standard risk management methodologies.
• Data & Analysis: Strong data modelling and analysis skills.

Benefits

• Generous leave package 26 days of annual leave (including your birthday!) plus UK bank holidays - increasing to 27 days after three years, and 28 after seven years
• You’ll also get five extra days for your five and 10-year anniversaries
• Additional leave for members of the Reserve Forces and CFAV.
• Private medical insurance Provided once you’ve completed your probation.
• Recognition and rewards £1,000 referral bonus for successful hires
• Performance-related awards
• Milestone and life-event hampers to celebrate life’s big moments
• Development & learning Annual training week abroad
• Funding for qualifications that benefit both you and the business
• Travel & wellbeing Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted travel through funded railcards
• Pension Our pension provider is NOW Pensions, pension contributions are 3% employer and 5% employee