Job Description:

Overview

At Solus, part of the Aviva family, we are continuing to modernise, simplify and strengthen our technology landscape. We are looking for a Solutions Architect who can bring clarity, leadership and technical depth to help shape how our business evolves.

About the role

As a senior technical leader, you will define and guide the enterprise architecture that underpins our products, platforms and operations. You will work across all architecture domains, ensuring our solutions are scalable, secure, resilient and aligned to our technology strategy.

You will partner with Product, Platform, Cyber, Operations, Change and business stakeholders to reduce complexity, modernise legacy systems and support confident decision making across the organisation.

Location:Hybrid (Stansted - 3 days per week, 2 days remote)

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain our enterprise and target state architecture across applications, cloud, integrations, infrastructure, data and security.
• Produce high quality solution designs for new products, enhancements and integrations, including Evolve.
• Provide architectural leadership, ensuring designs are scalable, supportable, resilient and operationally sound.
• Lead our Technical Design Authority, ensuring governance is fair, consistent and enabling.
• Maintain architectural standards, principles, patterns and decision records.
• Provide guidance and assurance throughout delivery, helping teams interpret and apply architecture best practice.
• Shape integration architecture and patterns, ensuring secure and reliable data flows across internal and external systems.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders, simplifying complex concepts and supporting business case development.
• Identify architectural risks early and work with Cyber, GRC and Data teams to embed security and compliance by design.

Qualifications

• Strong experience across enterprise architecture domains including cloud, data, applications, infrastructure and security.
• Deep knowledge of modern enterprise patterns, SaaS adoption, API and event based integrations and resilience approaches.
• Experience establishing and governing architecture standards and principles.
• Ability to balance cost, complexity, scalability and security to support confident decision making.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to bring clarity to complex topics.
• Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, SAFe Architect or BCS (or equivalent experience).

Who are Solus?

Solus, who are owned by Aviva, are one of the UK leaders in vehicle repairs, returning cars to the road in just 11 days on average and a 4.6/5 star customer rating. With an award-winning apprenticeship programme and winners of other recognised industry awards Solus are proud to be shaping the future of vehicle repair.

Why Join Solus?

We have so much to offer when it comes to being a Solus colleague:

• Competitive salary based on location, skills, experience, and qualifications.
• Bonus opportunity tied to your performance and the overall success of Solus.
• Company pension scheme with employer contributions.
• 33 days' holiday (including bank holidays), with the option to buy or sell up to 5 days.
• Save money with up to 40% discount on Aviva products and other retailer discounts.
• Share in Aviva's success through the Aviva Save As You Earn scheme.
• Supportive policies including parental and carer's leave.
• Wellbeing focus with tools like Group Income Protection and 24/7 GP access.

At Solus, we value inclusivity and welcome all applicants. If you're excited but don't tick every box, we encourage you to apply-your unique skills might be just what we need.

We guarantee an interview for disabled applicants meeting the minimum criteria-just email us after applying to let us know.

Ready to join us? Apply online today, and our team will be in touch within 14 days.