Intelance

Solution Architect – Hybrid, UK/Morocco

Intelance

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Salary

💰 £550 - £750 per day

Job Level

SeniorLead

About the role

  • Work with the Senior Enterprise Architect, Business Architects, and domain SMEs (Data, Security, Integration) to design end-to-end solutions for priority projects.
  • Produce clear, pragmatic High Level Architectures (HLA) and High Level Designs (HLD) that describe how applications, integrations, data flows, and security controls fit together.
  • Ensure all solution designs align with architecture principles, patterns, and guardrails agreed in the EA operating model.
  • Participate in and support the Architecture Review Board (ARB) and working groups, presenting solutions and addressing feedback.
  • Collaborate with Business stakeholders to translate requirements and constraints into simple, viable solution options with trade-offs.
  • Work closely with Data and Integration Architects on interfaces, APIs, data flows, and non-functional requirements (availability, performance, resilience, monitoring).
  • Provide technical guidance to project teams during design and early implementation phases, ensuring designs remain consistent with the agreed HLD.
  • Contribute to the EA repository with reusable patterns, reference designs, and lessons learned from pilot projects.
  • Support 1-2 pilot projects going end-to-end through the new EA workflow during the first phase of the engagement.
  • Help refine Intelance’s internal solution architecture templates and methods based on what works in practice.

Requirements

  • 7+ years’ experience as a Solution Architect in complex, multi-system environments.
  • Proven track record designing solutions that span applications, integrations, and data, not just a single product or module.
  • Comfortable producing HLA/HLD with standard notations (C4, UML, sequence diagrams, context/container diagrams) and keeping them at the right level of detail.
  • Experience working in project-driven industries (engineering, construction, energy, utilities, manufacturing, or similar) or other environments with large, complex projects and programmes.
  • Strong understanding of non-functional requirements (availability, scale, performance, security, supportability) and how they impact design.
  • Able to work with both business and technical stakeholders, explaining solution options in clear, non-jargon language.
  • Excellent communication skills in English and comfortable working in a hybrid model (remote plus occasional on-site visits to Casablanca and/or London).
Benefits
  • Key role in shaping real solutions for a major engineering and project-delivery group as they formalise their Enterprise Architecture capability.
  • Work in a small, senior team that values practical, implementable designs – not endless PowerPoint.
  • Hybrid working model – remote by default, with targeted on-site trips for high-impact workshops and reviews.
  • Exposure to Intelance’s broader EA, Cybersecurity, and AI work, with the chance to influence how solution architecture fits across multiple clients.
  • Competitive compensation with options for freelance / Ltd company engagement or longer-term collaboration.
  • Direct access to Intelance leadership and the opportunity to help refine our solution architecture patterns and accelerators.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
Solution ArchitectureHigh Level Architecture (HLA)High Level Design (HLD)C4UMLAPIsData FlowsNon-functional RequirementsIntegrationSecurity Controls
Soft skills
CommunicationCollaborationTechnical GuidanceStakeholder EngagementProblem SolvingAdaptabilityPresentation SkillsFeedback ManagementRequirements TranslationPragmatism