Solutions Architect

About This Role

This Solutions Architect role involves working with a leading Oxford energy organization, focusing on architectural projects and the ongoing maintenance of enterprise systems. The successful candidate will be part of the architecture function, ensuring effective system integration and contributing to scalable, secure, and robust processes and practices. The role is aligned with strategic business programs to refine and change tier 1 systems, with overall architectural responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Lead as the Enterprise Solutions Architect for at least one of the strategic business programs focused on tier 1 systems (Microsoft Dynamics F&O, Salesforce, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, SAP Success Factors)
• Champion enterprise architecture principles and governance whilst being hands-on in delivery where required
• Be a confident technical liaison for third-party partners and internal stakeholders
• Ensure solutions are embedded through the engineering functions into operational readiness
• Make key decisions on how systems integrate, where and how data is mastered and how data flows between the systems, ensuring both the velocity and stability required
• Assure configuration, workflows and automation aligns with technology best practice and architectural standards within the organisation
• Ensure effective governance and integrity of system boundaries; be aware of and mitigate the risk of boundary creep
• Contribute to policies and practices to ensure our enterprise systems remain scalable, secure, and robust and that third-party software across the business is appropriately managed
• Be a key resource for our Systems Managers (business partners with internal departments), providing architectural input to stakeholder requirements, guiding senior stakeholders as required, identifying and delivering scalable solutions

Requirements

• Proven experience operating as an Enterprise Architect across multiple domains and delivery streams, with demonstrable impact through roadmaps, standards and governance
• Deep experience working with and governing third-party integration partners, holding them to account and ensuring delivery and architectural alignment
• Strong understanding of EA disciplines (business/data/application/technology) and ability to connect them to portfolio and operating-model decisions
• Track record defining and executing target-state architectures and transition roadmaps (incremental, time to value-led, dependency-aware)
• Hands-on experience implementing architecture governance: principles, standards, architecture reviews, exception management and decision records
• Microsoft ecosystem architecture depth relevant to the organisation’s stack, including:
• Dynamics 365 F&O integration approaches and guidance
• Salesforce integration approaches and guidance
• SAP SuccessFactors integration and guidance
• Power Platform/Dataverse governance and ALM best practice; environment strategy and DLP controls
• Data Foundation expertise leveraging Microsoft data technologies with particular focus on Microsoft Fabric (or equivalent modern Lakehouse patterns), including governance/lineage and enabling self-service analytics safely
• Enterprise SaaS integration across domains with Salesforce CRM, Dynamics 365 F&O & SAP Success Factors
• Strong integration design capability: Domain Driven Design, event-based integration, API design principles, resilience patterns, operational considerations (SLAs, observability, incident readiness)
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication: can influence at exec level, simplify complex trade-offs, and align diverse teams behind common patterns and outcomes

Nice to have:

• TOGAF certification or equivalent applied EA practice
• Experience establishing EA repositories/tooling, platform guardrails, and measurable architecture outcomes (reuse, risk reduction, simplification)

Benefits

• Private Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Parental Support
• Salary-Exchange Pension
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Local Oxford Discounts
• Cycle-to-work Scheme
• Flu Jabs

About the Company

IDPP works exclusively with a leading Oxford energy organisation.