Solution Architect (SECURITY AND INTEGRATION)

Talan is recruiting an ambitious Solution Architect to work in the Digital business unit as a Principal Consultant. You will support our clients and stakeholders across the Energy, Public Sector and Financial sectors to design and deliver successful digital change initiatives. As a Principal Consultant, you will work with a team of experts who will support the solution, development, and management of technical solutions on behalf of Talan's clients. This is an exciting opportunity and is central to ensuring that Talan can deliver and manage the right technical solutions to clients in a fast-changing environment. The role is also expected to act as a recognised technical authority, influencing senior client and stakeholder decisions, shaping architectural direction, and representing Talan as a trusted expert in secure digital transformation.#

• Build strong relationships with stakeholders to understand business objectives, technology strategy and existing architectural landscapes, ensuring solution designs align with organisational goals.
• Lead the definition of solution architectures and provide clear, actionable recommendations to support technology-enabled change and digital transformation initiatives.
• Act as the technical authority throughout the project lifecycle, providing leadership and guidance during design, implementation, deployment and transition into service.
• Establish and govern technical delivery frameworks, ensuring appropriate architecture governance, design assurance and decision-making processes are in place.
• Lead architecture and design reviews, identifying and mitigating risks, dependencies and technical issues to support successful delivery outcomes.
• Promote architectural best practice and contribute to the continuous improvement of standards, methodologies and ways of working across the Digital business unit.
• Support business development activities through client engagement, solution shaping, bid responses and proposal development.
• Act as a recognised subject matter expert, providing strategic architecture advice to senior clients and internal stakeholders and influencing decisions on secure, scalable and future-ready solutions.
• Coach and mentor colleagues, sharing specialist architecture knowledge and supporting capability development across the Digital business unit.
• Contribute to internal and external thought leadership, including architecture standards, reusable delivery assets, communities of practice, client briefings, white papers or knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Identify and shape opportunities for innovation, including cloud modernisation, automation, AI-enabled services, secure-by-design architecture and continuous improvement of delivery approaches., Designing secure enterprise solutions including Identity and Access Management (IAM), cloud security, cryptographic controls, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) and information assurance within regulated environments.
  
  Competitive salary plus bonus and excellent benefits package.