Lead Enterprise Solution Architect

Solution Architect – Contract Opportunity

Outside IR35 Day Rate: £600/Day outside IR35

Location: Hybrid, with occasional travel to the London office

Key Skills: ERP, D365, F&O, CPQ, CRM, Integration expertise.

Key Responsibilities

1. End-to-End Solution Architecture: Own and deliver end-to-end solution architecture across the enterprise technology estate, translating business requirements into scalable, secure and practical technical solutions aligned with business objectives and architectural roadmaps.

2. Enterprise Application Architecture: Lead solution design across core business platforms, including Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations, Dynamics 365 Sales, Oracle CPQ, HubSpot and Microsoft Navision, with particular focus on the quote-to-cash business process.

3. Integration Architecture: Define application boundaries, integration patterns, data flows and API/event contracts, ensuring seamless connectivity across enterprise platforms using Microsoft Azure and Azure Integration Services, alongside other appropriate integration technologies.

4. Architecture Design & Documentation: Produce C1/C2 architecture diagrams, key interaction flows, solution designs and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), using C4 modelling standards to communicate technical solutions clearly to engineering teams and stakeholders.

5. Technical Design Authority: Act as a key member of the Architecture Guild and Technical Design Authority (TDA), reviewing and challenging solution designs, assessing technical trade-offs and ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards.

6. System Integrator & Vendor Management: Provide internal technical oversight of strategic System Integrator (SI) and third-party partners, validating proposed designs, challenging architectural decisions and ensuring solutions meet agreed technical and business requirements.

7. Architecture Governance & Reusable Standards: Maintain a version-controlled architecture repository using Git and Azure DevOps, including Markdown ADRs, standardised diagrams and reusable architectural patterns or 'Paved Paths' to accelerate consistent delivery.

8. Non-Functional Requirements & Operational Readiness: Embed security, scalability, resilience, performance, observability, monitoring and alerting requirements into solution designs, ensuring services are robust and ready for production transition.

9. Delivery Assurance & Technical Leadership: Work closely with product owners, engineering teams, data and platform leads to resolve cross-system design challenges, review implementation specifications and ensure delivered solutions remain aligned with agreed architecture.

10. Stakeholder Engagement & Technical Advisory: Provide hands-on architectural leadership, communicate complex technical concepts effectively, advise senior stakeholders on solution options and trade-offs, and mentor internal engineering teams to strengthen architectural capability.

Essential Experience

• Proven experience delivering enterprise-scale solution architecture across complex business application landscapes.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365, Oracle CPQ, HubSpot and Microsoft Navision.
• Deep understanding of Microsoft Azure and enterprise integration architecture.
• Experience with APIs, event-driven architecture, data modelling and system integrations.
• Strong architectural governance, C4 modelling, ADRs, Git and Azure DevOps experience.
• Confident engaging with engineering teams, senior stakeholders and external System Integrators.

Ideal candidate: A pragmatic, technically credible Solution Architect who can bridge business strategy and engineering delivery, take ownership of complex integrations and drive consistent architecture across a global enterprise technology estate.