Solution Architect Job at Thames Water (Reading)

Solution Architect

Thames Water

Location:
United Kingdom , Reading

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

90000.00 GBP / Year

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Job Description:

A key part of the role will be to ensure we make progress on our key issues, while keeping solutions aligned to organization and industry standards and with other programs/projects. The solutions architect provides the necessary leadership, analysis and design tasks related to support the development of technology solutions to ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standards.

Job Responsibility:

Understand the problem space: delivery of solution architectures and designs through their full lifecycle
Creates architectural designs to guide and contextualise solution development across products, services, projects, and systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information
Create and maintain the architecture models and related reference data in our enterprise repository as part of your normal project tasks
Facilitate the evaluation and selection of solution options, software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations
Provide solution architecture deliverables, including current and target state architecture, standard definitions, reference models, architecture designs and patterns
Supports product managers in product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services, or systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information
Use your experience on projects to suggest, and in some cases implement, changes to our modelling environment to better support the needs of our various stakeholders
this may require some software engineering

Requirements:

Being able to lead a project from an architecture perspective, ensuring that all decisions that are architecturally relevant can be taken following the appropriate governance (including peer review) and proactively informing the project plan in that direction
Excellent communication skills with ability to operate within cross-functional teams
A track record of delivery in both waterfall and agile environments
Practical experience using an architecture framework such as TOGAF or ArchiMate
Educated to degree level or equivalent in a STEM subject

Nice to have:

Experience using an architecture modelling tool such as BiZZdesign, Sparx, Lean IX, CACI MooD, Orbus
Exposure to process modelling, for example, in BPMN
Certification in an architecture framework. (e.g. TOGAF or ArchiMate)

What we offer:

Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service. (plus bank holidays)
Car Allowance
Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets
Generous Pension Scheme through AON
Private Medical Health Care
Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 18, 2026

Expiration:
March 03, 2026

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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