LEAD SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

Lead Solutions Architect (Edinburgh Hybrid) About the role Head Resourcing are pleased to be working with a highly regarded company in Edinburgh who are looking for an experienced Lead Solution Architect to define and deliver modern, scalable architectures built on microservices and event-driven patterns. You'll guide architecture decisions for a platform or innovation-focused environment, enabling engineering teams to deliver quickly and safely. Working closely with Product Owners, delivery teams, and enterprise-level architecture colleagues, you'll ensure solutions are maintainable, resilient, and aligned to longer-term technology direction. Key responsibilities: Define target architectures and roadmaps that support strategic outcomes, with a strong emphasis on microservices and event-based designs. Lead solution design for complex initiatives, translating business needs into clear, pragmatic technical approaches. Partner with Product Owners and engineering teams to remove friction, accelerate delivery, and ensure architectural alignment. Establish and promote engineering patterns, standards, and reference designs that improve consistency and quality. Ensure solutions meet expectations for governance, quality, risk management, and controlled change. Mentor and coach engineers and architects, building strong technical communities and raising the bar on engineering practice. Contribute to long-term technology strategy by developing methods and frameworks that optimise delivery, cost, and platform performance. Key skills and experience: Proven experience in architecture and engineering, designing cloud-native and microservices-based solutions. Strong hands-on background (e.g., software engineering) with a solid grasp of build, deployment, and modern delivery practices. Experience designing event-driven systems and integration approaches (e.g., messaging/streaming patterns). Track record of modernising legacy or monolithic applications into more modular, service-oriented ecosystems. Excellent communication and influencing skills-able to "tell the story" of an architecture and bring stakeholders with you. Practical experience defining and rolling out standards, patterns, and engineering best practices across teams. Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills; able to energise and align cross-functional groups. Hybrid: 2 days per week onsite in Edinburgh Salary: Up to £115k depending on experience + benefits If this sounds like you we would like to hear from you!