Solution Architect

The Role Talan is recruiting an ambitious Solution Architect to work in the Digital business unit as a Principal Consultant. You will support our clients and stakeholders across the Energy, Public Sector and Financial sectors to design and deliver successful digital change initiatives. As a Principal Consultant, you will work with a team of experts who will support the solution, development, and management of technical solutions on behalf of Talan’s clients. This is an exciting opportunity and is central to ensuring that Talan can deliver and manage the right technical solutions to clients in a fast-changing environment. The role is also expected to act as a recognised technical authority, influencing senior client and stakeholder decisions, shaping architectural direction, and representing Talan as a trusted expert in secure digital transformation.# Build strong relationships with stakeholders to understand business objectives, technology strategy and existing architectural landscapes, ensuring solution designs align with organisational goals.  Lead the definition of solution architectures and provide clear, actionable recommendations to support technology-enabled change and digital transformation initiatives.  Act as the technical authority throughout the project lifecycle, providing leadership and guidance during design, implementation, deployment and transition into service.  Establish and govern technical delivery frameworks, ensuring appropriate architecture governance, design assurance and decision-making processes are in place.  Lead architecture and design reviews, identifying and mitigating risks, dependencies and technical issues to support successful delivery outcomes.  Promote architectural best practice and contribute to the continuous improvement of standards, methodologies and ways of working across the Digital business unit.  Support business development activities through client engagement, solution shaping, bid responses and proposal development.  Act as a recognised subject matter expert, providing strategic architecture advice to senior clients and internal stakeholders and influencing decisions on secure, scalable and future-ready solutions.  Coach and mentor colleagues, sharing specialist architecture knowledge and supporting capability development across the Digital business unit.  Contribute to internal and external thought leadership, including architecture standards, reusable delivery assets, communities of practice, client briefings, white papers or knowledge-sharing sessions.  Identify and shape opportunities for innovation, including cloud modernisation, automation, AI-enabled services, secure-by-design architecture and continuous improvement of delivery approaches.  SPECIALIST ARCHITECTURE CAPABILITIES  In addition to core Solution Architecture expertise, candidates should demonstrate experience in one or more of the following specialist areas:  SECURITY ARCHITECTURE  Designing secure enterprise solutions including Identity and Access Management (IAM), cloud security, cryptographic controls, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) and information assurance within regulated environments.  ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION ARCHITECTURE  Designing and delivering complex integration solutions across applications, platforms and external partners, including secure interoperability, API-led integration, data exchange and enterprise-wide system integration.  RISK ASSESSMENT AND INFORMATION ASSURANCE  Leading technical risk assessments, security assurance activities and governance reviews to ensure solutions comply with organisational, regulatory and security requirements. Competitive salary plus bonus and excellent benefits package. Requirements Proven experience designing and delivering solution architectures that support business and technology transformation programmes.  Strong Solution Architecture and Enterprise Architecture expertise, including the design of secure, resilient and scalable digital solutions.  Experience leading technical design activities, architecture workstreams and multi-disciplinary delivery teams.  Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.  Experience establishing architecture governance, design assurance and technical review processes.  Strong business analysis, requirements management and solution definition capabilities.  Knowledge of architecture frameworks and methodologies such as TOGAF, Zachman or equivalent.  Experience working within complex, regulated environments.  Demonstrable experience supporting the full solution lifecycl…