Overview

Technical Architect – Nottingham (Hybrid)

Up to £70,000 + Benefits

Let’s be clear — this isn’t a pure “sit in the ivory tower” architect role. This is hands-on. It’s technical. It’s commercial. And it sits right at the heart of shaping digital transport solutions that impact millions of journeys.

This role pulls together the core activities of a BA — discovery, analysis, stakeholder engagement — and stretches them into the bigger picture of solution architecture. You’ll be designing, building, and costing enterprise-scale transport systems that combine:

• Hardware – on-vehicle tech that moves with trains, trams, and buses
• Software – platforms that deliver insights, experiences, and reporting
• Infrastructure – cloud and on-prem, integrated into complex global environments

Except in this case, the “on-prem” is literally mobile. And the scope is huge — from tailored SME deployments to multi-million-pound solutions for Transport for London, Manchester, or New York.

What makes this role different

• You’ll still do the BA work: workshops, requirement gathering, functional specs, stakeholder alignment.
• But you’ll also architect the full end-to-end solution: hardware, software, connectivity, and data integration.
• You’ll help shape bid responses and commercial proposals, building the business cases and cost models that win projects.
• You’ll sit at the intersection of tech + business, turning ideas into designs, designs into bids, and bids into delivered solutions.

With an in-house LLM already handling much of the documentation and analysis, your focus is on value:

• Defining what the client actually needs
• Designing how the pieces fit together
• Building commercial models that make sense
• Driving delivery with international engineering, product, and project teams

What you’ll do

• Translate business requirements into solution designs across hardware, software, and infrastructure layers
• Define integration points, system architecture, and data flows
• Create functional and non-functional specifications to guide development teams
• Build commercial business cases, costings, and bid content for UK and international clients
• Partner with architects, engineers, and product managers to deliver scalable solutions
• Represent the solutions team in client meetings, workshops, and tenders
• Contribute to testing, implementation, and performance reviews
• Stay close to emerging tech trends in transport, data, and AI — shaping how they’re embedded into solutions

What you’ll bring

• Experience as a Technical Architect, Solution Designer, or BA with a strong technical edge
• The ability to bridge business, technical, and commercial conversations
• A background that covers software, hardware, connectivity, or infrastructure (you don’t need all, but you should be comfortable talking across the stack)
• Strong stakeholder management with senior and international clients
• Skills in tools such as SQL, JIRA, Confluence, Power BI, Tableau, BPMN, or similar
• A commercial mindset — able to think in terms of cost, value, and ROI as well as technology

What’s in it for you

• Salary up to £70,000 + benefits
• International travel opportunities
• Modern Nottingham HQ with hybrid working
• High-quality product and technology training
• A collaborative team environment with global reach
• Clear growth path in a sector that’s about to explode with digital transformation

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology
• Industries
• IT Services and IT Consulting

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