Overview

Job Title:

Solutions ArchitectLocation:

London – HybridWe are offering an exciting opportunity to join a leading sporting governing body as a

Solutions Architect . This role will play a key part in shaping and delivering technology solutions that improve digital experiences for volunteers, players, fans, and attendees, while supporting the organisation’s wider strategic objectives.

Responsibilities

Engage proactively with stakeholders to scope, model, and understand business problems and opportunities.

Produce practical architecture outputs, including models, diagrams, and documentation, to support solution delivery.

Design solutions that are traceable to requirements, proportionate to business needs, and implementable by delivery teams.

Govern solution implementation, ensuring alignment to design and challenging suppliers where required.

Contribute to best practice by creating templates, patterns, and standardised ways of working.

Collaborate closely across teams to ensure solutions are aligned and avoid silos.

Guide technology through approval and governance processes, including providing inputs to Technical Design Authority.

Act as the technical authority in areas such as microservices, integration patterns, and API design.

Support strategic initiatives such as unified customer experiences, learning pathways, and extended SSO across platforms.

Keep up to date with industry best practice and propose recommendations for continual improvement.

Requirements – Who are we looking for?

Strong and demonstrable experience in Solutions Architecture.

Background in architecting solutions for a cloud-native environment.

Proven experience integrating SaaS applications.

Knowledge and experience of IAM and customer-facing SSO.

Strong expertise in API definition, management, and security.

Understanding of role/attribute-based security within microservices and event-driven architectures.

Collaborative approach, able to build strong relationships across functions.

Commitment to inclusivity and to working in line with organisational values.

Experience creating unified “ecosystem” user experiences across multiple customer platforms.

Familiarity with Learning Management Systems.

Understanding of application security, cloud technologies, and access control.

Experience with AWS Lambda or equivalent serverless solutions.

Knowledge of GitHub, GitHub Actions, and CI/CD pipelines.

Experience implementing CRM systems.

Experience with Auth0.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Information Technology and Strategy/Planning

Industries

Spectator Sports and Sports Teams and Clubs

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