* System Architecture jobs in the United Kingdom
12 System Architecture jobs in the United Kingdom
Infrastructure Consultant
County Durham, North East In Technology Group Limited
Posted 4 days ago
Job Description
permanent
Job Title: IT Solutions & Implementation Manager
Location: Stockton-on-Tees (Hybrid-3 days onsite)
Industry: Retail
Role Overview
This is a standalone role at the heart of our company-wide digital transformation. As a key driver of change, you will be responsible for overhauling our IT infrastructure, implementing innovative solutions, and ensuring our technolog.
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Director of Presales Solution Architecture
Posted 368 days ago
Job Description
Permanent
Who are Tyk, and what do we do?
The Tyk API Management platform is helping to drive the connected world and power new products and services. We’re changing the way that organisations connect any number of their systems and services. Whether internal, external, public or highly encrypted systems, Tyk helps businesses drive value across the retail, finance, telecoms, healthcare, or media industries (to name just a few!)
If you’ve banked online, used an app to check the news, or perhaps even driven a connected car, API’s, and by extension, Tyk, make that possible. Founded in 2015 with offices in London - UK, London - Ontario, Atlanta and Singapore, we have many thousands of users of our B2B platform across the globe. Brands using Tyk range from Lotte, Bell, T Mobile, to RBS, Capital One and Vinci. We have a varied user base hailing from every continent – even Antarctica.
Our Mission
Tyk is on a mission to connect every system in the world. We’ve started by building an API Management platform.
Total flexibility, default remote, radical responsibility
If this sounds like an environment that you believe could work for you then read on to find out more.
Requirements
The role:
Tyk is actively seeking an accomplished and dynamic Director of Solution Architecture to lead and inspire our team of Solution Architects. As a key player in our EMEA Commercial Team, you will drive team development, foster a customer-centric culture, and achieve strategic goals. If you are a seasoned professional with a proven track record in technical leadership, customer engagement, and team management, we want to hear from you!
Here’s what you’ll be getting up to:
As the Director of Solution Architecture for our EMEA team you will:
* Manage and lead Solution Architects, overseeing their technical development
* Lead the development and execution of skill and personal development plans for the Solution Architecture Team.
* Ensure the proficiency of Solutions Architect specialists in effectively engaging with clients and prospects.
* Identify and nurture region-specific skills to comprehensively cover the entire technical stack.
* Provide training and equip Presales, Customer, and Channel Solution Architects for their respective roles.
* Develop assets, artifacts, and processes to elevate the team's operational standards.
* Review high-value customer engagements and execute success plans
* Enable Solution Architects to deliver a best-in-class customer experience.
* Cultivate and promote a proactive customer experience culture within the team.
* Serve as a regional point of escalation for technical support, providing guidance in high-value customer situations.
* Share team successes, aligning them with goals, targets, and expectations.
* Contribute to Tyk's market visibility through asset creation and active participation in events.
* Conduct stakeholder meetings to represent the customer and design shared processes
* Maintain accurate KPIs and OKRs
* Collaborate with the VP of Sales to set individual and team goals, regional revenue, and customer KPIs.
* Establish and drive OKRs for the regional Solution Architecture team.
* Collaborate with the VP of Sales to meet regional revenue targets
* Standardise processes and assets in collaboration with other Directors of Solution Architecture.
* Advocate for best practices and effectively communicate complex technical requirements to internal teams.
* Support other teams through constructive feedback, challenge, and knowledge sharing.
* Contribute to business projects, GTM processes, and future growth plans.
* Engage directly with engineers and users to inform product and company vision.
Here’s what we’re looking for:
* Extensive expertise within solution architecture, cloud-native principles, and internet foundations.
* Solid experience as a people manager, developing high-performing teams.
* Background in solution architecture and knowledge of software development practices.
* Proficiency in Linux, scripting, internet technologies, and databases.
* Strong understanding of DevOps, deployment practices, and relevant technologies.
* Comprehensive experience in backend engineering or solution architecture for complex systems.
* Familiarity with K8s, EC2, AKS, Docker, GoLang, gRPC, GraphQL, SSL/TLS, Caching, Redis, Mongo, CI/CD.
* Proven experience defining, managing, and enabling successful proof of concepts.
* Advantageous: experience in Go, C, or C++ and domain expertise in API Management.
Here’s why you should join us:
* Everyone has unlimited paid holidays.
* We have total flexibility in hours, as we believe creativity flows better when our people are given freedom to decide when they are most productive. Everyone is unique after all.
* Employee share scheme
* Generous maternity and paternity leave
* Company retreats
We all share the same vision - we value authenticity, respect, responsibility, independence, honesty, diversity and inclusion and most importantly treating others how you wish to be treated. We look for like-minded people who bring their personalities to work everyday, strive to achieve their personal goals and who are willing to challenge the way we do things, why? - to make what we do even better!
Our values tell the story of Tyk - here’s how:
* It’s ok to screw up!
We’ve found that it’s often the ‘stupid’ or unexpected ideas that turn out to be the successful ones - so try it, at least we can say we have!
* The only stupid idea, is the untested one!
It’s in our DNA - starting a business with founders 12 hours apart, giving our gateway away for free - sure, we did that, and we’d do it again!
* Trust starts with you - make it count!
Trust is a two-way street - instil it from day one!
We have each other’s back - we’re all on the same team. Think before you speak or act.
* Make things better!
Always try to leave things better than when you found them - change is constant, inevitable and embraced! Be that change we want to see.
What’s it like to work here! check it out:
Tyk is an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.
You can see more about us here
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Posted 22 days ago
Job Description
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Title: Enterprise Solution Architect (Mainframe Architecture)
Location: Remote
Duration: 24 Months
Job Description
Project Overview:
We are seeking a seasoned Senior Platform Architect to lead and guide enterprise architecture initiatives across legacy mainframe systems and modern distributed platforms. This role requires deep technical acumen and strategic oversight to modernize, integrate, and transform mission-critical applications and infrastructure within a hybrid enterprise landscape. The ideal candidate will have robust expertise in COBOL, IMS DB/DC, JCL, MicroFocus, and mainframe environments, along with proven experience architecting distributed systems and leveraging VMware virtualization solutions.
This is a high-impact, strategic role responsible for defining the architectural direction that enables modernization of legacy systems and ensures seamless alignment with current and future-state enterprise platforms.
Key Responsibilities:
Enterprise Architecture Leadership
• Design and maintain enterprise-wide platform architecture that encompasses both mainframe and distributed systems.
Define modernization strategies that align with business objectives, emphasizing interoperability, scalability, and resiliency.• Collaborate with IT leadership to drive digital transformation and platform evolution initiatives.
ainframe Architecture & Modernization
• Provide architectural direction for systems built on COBOL, IMS DB/DC, and JCL.
Evaluate legacy workloads and define transition paths using MicroFocus rehosting and emulation platforms.• Ensure performance, availability, and reliability standards are met across re-platformed workloads.
istributed Systems Integration
• Architect seamless integration of mainframe applications with modern, service-oriented architectures (SOA) and distributed components.
Drive interoperability between legacy and contemporary platforms through APIs, middleware, and data sharing solutions.Virtualization & Infrastructure Optimization
• Leverage VMware (vSphere, ESXi, NSX) and virtualization technologies to architect scalable, fault-tolerant, and cost-effective environments.
Lead infrastructure transformation initiatives to support hybrid workloads and dynamic provisioning.Governance & Standards
• Establish and enforce platform architecture standards, methodologies, and documentation.
Participate in enterprise architecture review boards to validate designs and ensure compliance with governance frameworks.Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Serve as a technical advisor to business units, development teams, and infrastructure groups.
Mentor solution architects and technical leads, guiding best practices for platform design, security, and performance tuning.
Required Skills and Experience:
• 10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise solution architecture, platform engineering, or systems modernization.
Proven expertise in mainframe architecture, including: o COBOL programming
o IMS DB/DC transaction and database management
o JCL scripting and job control
Hands-on experience with Micro Focus platforms (e.g., Enterprise Server, Enterprise Developer) for mainframe workload rehosting.• Strong background in distributed systems, middleware integration, and system interoperability.
Migration of COBOL modules to distributed system is preferred.• Extensive experience with VMware platforms and enterprise virtualization.
Demonstrated ability to architect hybrid environments encompassing legacy and modern infrastructure.• Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and technical documentation skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience in enterprise platform transformation within regulated industries (e.g., government, banking, healthcare).
Familiarity with cloud migration and hybrid deployment models involving AWS, Azure, or GCP.• Working knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools.
Architecture certification preferred (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman, or AWS/Azure Certified Architect).
Posted 21 days ago
Job Description
permanent
Colt provides network, voice and data centre services to thousands of businesses around the world, allowing them to focus on delivering their business goals instead of the underlying infrastructure.
Why we need this role
This role is central to shaping Colts enterprise architecture strategy, with a strong emphasis on OSS technologies and core networking. As a key architectural leader, you will drive.
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Director of Enterprise Architecture
Posted 21 days ago
Job Description
permanent
This is a pivotal role in shaping our data landscape, ensuring alignment with business objectives, and driving innovation through effective data management practices. You will lead a team of skilled data architects, collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, and define the strategic direction for data initiatives.
What you will do:
* Develop and articulate a comprehensiv.
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Enterprise Architecture Manager - Insurance/Products industry
Accenture
Posted 5 days ago
Job Description
We are looking for:
* Previous consulting experience
* Experience working as a solution architect or enterprise architect
* Depth of knowledge within either the Insurance/Banking/FS/Products industry processes and their underlying technology architecture, emerging technology trends, etc
* Experience in business capability and process taxonomies, maturity assessments and alignment of gaps to enabling technology solutions
* Experience in designing and governing data platform architectures (e.g. broad understanding of Informatica, Collibra, Ab Initio, Snowflake, Databricks)
* Appreciation of and interest in attaining end-to-end data skills e.g., data quality, metadata, data-mesh, data security, privacy & compliance
* Experience with Enterprise / platform / application (e.g. cloud / SAP) / data architecture
* Understanding of public and private cloud architectures
* Knowledge of leading enterprise architecture tools such.
* Have knowledge of the Government Service Manual, Technology Code of Practice (TCoP) and UK Digital/Data Strategies
* Experience in major enterprise architecture engagements e.g. application optimization/rationalization, re-platforming, modernization of enterprise data architecture
* Familiarity with applying key frameworks such as APQC Process Classification Framework, Zachman Framework, ITIL and Scaled Agile Framework
Enterprise Architecture Manager - Insurance/Products industry
Posted 5 days ago
Job Description
We are looking for:
* Previous consulting experience
* Experience working as a solution architect or enterprise architect
* Depth of knowledge within either the Insurance/Banking/FS/Products industry processes and their underlying technology architecture, emerging technology trends, etc
* Experience in business capability and process taxonomies, maturity assessments and alignment of gaps to enabling technology solutions
* Experience in designing and governing data platform architectures (e.g. broad understanding of Informatica, Collibra, Ab Initio, Snowflake, Databricks)
* Appreciation of and interest in attaining end-to-end data skills e.g., data quality, metadata, data-mesh, data security, privacy & compliance
* Experience with Enterprise / platform / application (e.g. cloud / SAP) / data architecture
* Understanding of public and private cloud architectures
* Knowledge of leading enterprise architecture tools such.
* Have knowledge of the Government Service Manual, Technology Code of Practice (TCoP) and UK Digital/Data Strategies
* Experience in major enterprise architecture engagements e.g. application optimization/rationalization, re-platforming, modernization of enterprise data architecture
* Familiarity with applying key frameworks such as APQC Process Classification Framework, Zachman Framework, ITIL and Scaled Agile Framework
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Accenture
Posted 5 days ago
Job Description
We are looking for:
* Experience working as a solution architect or enterprise architect
* Experience in business capability and process taxonomies, maturity assessments and alignment of gaps to enabling technology solutions.
* Experience in designing and governing data platform architectures.
* Appreciation of and interest in attaining end-to-end data skills e.g., data quality, metadata, data-mesh, data security, privacy & compliance
* Experience with Enterprise / platform / application (e.g. cloud / SAP) / data architecture
* Understanding of public and private cloud architectures
* Have knowledge of the Government Service Manual, Technology Code of Practice (TCoP) and UK Digital/Data Strategies
* Experience in enterprise architecture engagements e.g. application optimization/rationalization, re-platforming, modernization of enterprise data architecture
Posted 5 days ago
Job Description
We are looking for:
* Experience working as a solution architect or enterprise architect
* Experience in business capability and process taxonomies, maturity assessments and alignment of gaps to enabling technology solutions.
* Experience in designing and governing data platform architectures.
* Appreciation of and interest in attaining end-to-end data skills e.g., data quality, metadata, data-mesh, data security, privacy & compliance
* Experience with Enterprise / platform / application (e.g. cloud / SAP) / data architecture
* Understanding of public and private cloud architectures
* Have knowledge of the Government Service Manual, Technology Code of Practice (TCoP) and UK Digital/Data Strategies
* Experience in enterprise architecture engagements e.g. application optimization/rationalization, re-platforming, modernization of enterprise data architecture
Director of Enterprise Security Architecture
London, London Lawrence Harvey
Posted 4 days ago
Job Description
Role : Director of Enterprise Security Architecture
Location : London on-site 3 days p/w
I’m currently partnered with an elite Financial Markets firm who are hiring for a Director level Enterprise Security Architect to work with their Global CISO to set out and deliver the Enterprise Security Architecture strategy, driving a proactive, continuously improving enterprise security architecture function.
Whilst this is a strategic role where you will be working with stakeholders from across the organization in different geographies and time-zones to drive the security architecture strategy at the enterprise level; you will need to have come from a technical, hands-on background with a solid understanding of the technical intricacies that underpin the different concepts that will be driven and introduced.
This is an incredible opportunity to join a truly elite Financial Markets Infrastructure organization and play a pivotal role in how they implement security at the enterprise level globally over the coming years; truly influencing change and leaving a lasting impact.
Key Responsibilities:
* Develop, drive and deliver the enterprise security architecture strategy and roadmaps, working closely with wider Enterprise Architecture functions and technical departments to align security initiatives with broader business goals.
* Develop company wide security architecture frameworks, policies, and standards that wider Enterprise functions can lean on, with particular emphasis on Cloud Security, SaaS, and IaaS models, ensuring alignment with industry best practices and evolving regulatory requirements.
* Create and document expert-level security architecture design, analysis, and consultation to enterprise-wide programs, ensuring security risks are appropriately mitigated during the planning and design stages.
* Direct project and program managers to ensure the integration of security architecture across various initiatives, with a focus on scalability, compliance, and risk management.
Key Requirements:
* Proven ability to design, implement, and lead security initiatives across cloud, network, application, and infrastructure domains at an enterprise level for global organisations.
* Extensive experience working with C-Suite and senior stakeholders to drive strategic security initiatives, influencing decisions at the enterprise level.
* Deep expertise in security risk management frameworks, including ISO 27001, NIST SP 800-53, and SANS Top 20 Critical Security Controls.
* In-depth knowledge of SABSA framework (ideally certified) and its six layers, particularly in risk management and security strategy development
Looking to drive enterprise level security architecture at an organisation that truly sit at the backbone of trillions of dollars worth of transactions on a daily basis? Apply below.
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