Overview

Job Title: Solutions Architect

Location: London – Hybrid

We 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