Job Specifications
About Us:
Solirius Reply delivers technical consultancy and application delivery to our clients in order to solve real world problems and allow our clients to respond to an ever-changing technical landscape. We partner closely with our clients, embedding our consultants into their businesses in order to provide a bespoke service, allowing us to truly understand our clients' needs.
It is this close collaboration with our clients that has enabled us to grow rapidly in recent years and will drive our ambitious future growth plans. We currently have over 250 consultants working with a variety of key clients from both the public and private sectors such as the Ministry of Justice, Department for Education, FCDOS, UEFA, International Olympic Committee and Mercedes Benz; with plans to increase our client base further in the near future.
We operate as a flat organisation and believe in trusting and supporting our team to operate independently. We pride ourselves on being specialists at what we do, making the most of our consultants' expertise in their fields, to provide a best-in-class service to our clients. All our consultants have the opportunity to work on a range of different projects, providing a broad range of knowledge on which to develop their careers and progress in the direction they choose.
About You:
You are a motivated and adaptable professional with a strong analytical mindset and a passion for working with data to solve real-world problems. You enjoy working in collaborative, agile teams and take pride in delivering high-quality, data-driven solutions that make a tangible impact. With strong communication skills and a consultative approach, you're comfortable engaging with clients, understanding their needs, and translating them into robust data architectures and platforms. You understand and align with Solirius Reply Values.
The Role:
We are looking for experienced Data Architects to work on our projects with our public sector clients, helping to deliver Solirius' services to the highest standard.
The role will involve working with multiple business and technical stakeholders, helping them to design data solutions and architectures which will then be implemented by the delivery teams.
As a Data Architect, you will be expected to operate with a high degree of autonomy, using your experience and judgement to resolve complex data and architectural challenges in alignment with client needs. You will proactively manage escalations and take ownership of delivering effective, scalable, and secure data solutions.
Successful candidates will also be expected to take an active role in practice development: developing new data services to help with Solirius' business development - creating and updating data architecture artefacts, liaising with other Solirius practices to maintain practice profile and contributing to the development of more junior practice members.
In addition to technical leadership, you will play a key role in identifying and shaping new business opportunities, working closely with stakeholders across client organisations to understand strategic objectives and deliver value-driven, data-led outcomes.
You must be a strong and confident communicator, capable of influencing both technical and non-technical audiences. You will lead and mentor technical teams, build consensus across diverse stakeholder groups, and foster collaborative, cross-functional working environments.
Your role will require innovative thinking, applying best practices and emerging data technologies to solve complex business problems in creative and pragmatic ways.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities:
Design end-to-end data architectures that meet business, technical, and security requirements
Translate business and analytical requirements into scalable, secure, and cost-effective data platforms
Ensure alignment with enterprise data architecture, data strategy, and governance standards
Lead data architecture reviews and technical design workshops with stakeholders and delivery teams
Support Agile delivery teams, defining MVP data architecture and providing ongoing technical direction
Collaborate with stakeholders across business, product, and IT to gain buy-in and drive data-driven decisions
Define data models, data flows, metadata standards, and integration patterns
Contribute to data engineering, automation, and infrastructure-as-code practices for delivery at scale
Ensure data security, privacy, compliance, and risk management are embedded in the solution
Produce clear data architecture documentation using standards such as conceptual, logical and physical models, C4, Archimate, and cloud-native diagrams, including high-level designs and relevant data artefacts
Key Experience:
Extensive experience in stakeholder engagement and senior-level communication, including C-suite
Proven experience in client-facing and/or consultancy environments
Demonstrated ability to translate complex business and analytical req