Technology Solutions Architect (Data)
Job ID: 010056
Location: Leeds, UK, LS1 8EQ
Job type: Permanent - Full Time
Salary: Up to £78,000 Dependent upon Experience + Bonus & Benefits
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Solutions Architect (Data)
Join us at a time of significant investment in Data and AI, where you'll play a key role in designing solutions that unlock business value and support better outcomes for our members. This is an opportunity to influence strategic technology decisions, work across complex change initiatives, and help shape the future of our enterprise data landscape.
About the role
As a Solutions Architect, you'll design and deliver innovative technology solutions, using your expertise in Data and AI to support strategic business outcomes.
- Translate business requirements into high-quality solution designs that align with enterprise and technology strategy
- Lead the design of modern data and analytics solutions, supporting enterprise-wide insight and decision-making
- Collaborate with business, engineering and architecture teams to shape solutions that meet operational and strategic objectives
- Ensure adherence to architectural standards, governance, principles and patterns across all solutions
- Drive consistency, reuse and simplification across the technology estate through effective architecture practices
- Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities to enhance data, reporting and AI capabilities
- Contribute to architectural best practices, reference architectures and technology roadmaps
About you
You'll be an experienced architect with a strong background in data platforms, analytics or AI technologies and a passion for delivering business value through technology. [
- Proven experience in solution architecture within complex technology environments
- Strong understanding of modern data architectures, cloud technologies and analytics platforms
- Experience designing solutions that enable data-driven decision-making and enterprise insight
- Knowledge of architectural frameworks, patterns and best practices, including cloud and distributed systems
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
- Analytical and strategic mindset, with the ability to balance immediate delivery needs with long-term architectural goals
- TOGAF certified, or equivalent architecture qualification and experience
About Our Benefits
Everyone’s different. That’s why we offer a wide range of benefits and rewards that we think you’ll love – whatever’s important to you, and whatever stage of life you’re at. Such as…
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Our pension scheme (where you can get up to 11% from us)
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On target bonus of 7% (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%)
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Access to brilliant health benefits
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Life assurance at 6 times your salary
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25 days’ holiday (and the option to buy more)
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Cycle to work or an interest-free loan for an annual ticket
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Wellbeing resources and tools
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Retail and Leisure discounts
Learning & Development
Everyone can build a career path they love here. And that’s because we offer a wide range of programmes, opportunities and more to help you learn, grow, and develop – and reach your full potential.
These include...
- Personal Growth Toolkits - a range of materials that help you discover your strengths, identify your goals, and your next steps.
- Secondment and Stretch opportunities – helping you gain experience in different areas of our business and new ways of working.
- Learning Champion Network – opportunities to work outside of your immediate area and build new skills.
- Apprenticeships and Professional Qualifications – a range of brilliant apprenticeships and programmes available to everyone.
- REACH Diverse Leadership Programme – helping our Black, Asian and Ethnically Diverse leaders progress into senior leadership roles.
Our Colleague Networks & Groups
Our Vision is to be a leading organisation that embraces diversity, champions equity, and creates an inclusive environment where all individuals regardless of their background or identity feel valued, empowered and supported.
Our Colleague Networks and Groups are designed to amplify the voices of diverse groups and provide a structured route to effect real change. They provide a safe space and use colleague feedback to support the progression of our DEI Strategy. Our eight networks and groups are:
Community and Charity
Ever since we started back in 1864, we’ve had a clear purpose – to do some good in our communities through helping people keep their savings safe. And helping everyone have a place to call home. Today, that purpose is still a huge part of who we are. And every one of our colleagues helps that happen.
We’re committed to volunteering our time, resources, skills and knowledge – more than 50% of colleagues contribute to thousands of volunteer hours every year. And our Charitable Foundation has now donated over £9 million to charities and good causes across the country.
Our ways of working
We know there’s no single right way of working that fits everyone. That’s why we’re not trying to find one. Instead, we’re doing everything we can to make sure that when we’re working flexibly, together and apart, we’re working at our best. And help our colleagues get the most out of work, and take care of themselves, wherever they’re working.
Whether you’re in an office-based team or your team is spread across the country, you’ll have lots of chances to get together with your colleagues for those Moments that Matter – which are all about building wonderful relationships and strong bonds with your colleagues.
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