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About the Role

TfL is seeking Solution Architects to work on projects that span public transport, roads, walking, cycling, real estate, asset management, regulation, and enforcement. The role involves creating project-level architecture designs, building consensus, and supporting project teams through delivery to ensure desired outcomes are achieved.

Responsibilities

• Ensure project vision, scope, and desired outcomes are properly defined and meet business needs.
• Understand organizational objectives and external drivers, such as legislation or industry compliance.
• Lead end-to-end solution architecture for projects involving high-volume mission-critical revenue-generating systems.
• Work within business and technical constraints.
• Collaborate with colleagues in other technical teams to ensure principles and best practices are applied.
• Ensure functional and non-functional requirements are fit for purpose and align with project scope, vision, and service criticality.
• Stay up-to-date with technology trends and approaches.
• Analyze and present solution options to business and technical stakeholders, including developing build vs. buy options.
• Work with technical teams to build cost and delivery estimates.
• Manage risks, decisions, and assumptions transparently.
• Design and document high-level and low-level designs aligned with TfL enterprise architecture principles, ensuring approval through formal governance.
• Communicate and collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to build consensus.
• Support project teams through delivery to ensure desired outcomes are achieved and design changes are fully considered, agreed, and approved.

Requirements

• Proven experience operating as a Solution or Technical Architect on large-scale, revenue-generating systems.
• Strong experience designing event-driven architectures, including the use of enterprise messaging and integration patterns.
• Demonstrated expertise in architecting solutions across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid deployment models.
• Ability to define and apply solution design patterns.
• Ability to produce designs using UML, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architecture, Visio, and Office 365.
• Experience working on medium and large-scale public sector IT procurement projects.
• Design for high availability, disaster recovery, and regional resilience.
• Industry knowledge of Information technology trends, particularly within public transport operations and payments.
• Design scalable microservices architectures using Kubernetes-based platforms.
• Design and govern solutions using Microsoft Azure services including: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure App Services, Azure API Management, Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus / Event Grid.
• Candidates must be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK.
• TfL is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Skills

• Solution Architecture
• Technical Architecture
• Event-driven architectures
• Enterprise messaging
• Integration patterns
• On-premises deployment
• Cloud deployment
• Hybrid deployment
• Solution design patterns
• UML
• Sparx Systems Enterprise Architecture
• Visio
• Office 365
• Public sector IT procurement
• Information technology trends
• Public transport operations
• Payments
• Scalable microservices architectures
• Kubernetes-based platforms
• Microsoft Azure services
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure App Services
• Azure API Management
• Azure Functions
• Azure Service Bus / Event Grid
• Critical thinking
• Research
• Summarized results presentation
• Prioritization
• Deadline management
• Problem anticipation and resolution

Location

• North Greenwich, London

Work Type

• Hybrid working
• Permanent

Experience Level

• Senior

Education Level

• Qualification in a relevant subject area is desirable (e.g., Solution Architecture, TOGAF).

Salary/Compensations

• £70-85k

Benefits

• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel on the TfL network
• Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home or 75% reimbursement on a 28-day flexi ticket
• 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
• Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional)
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
• Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel

About the Company

• TfL exists to move London forward safely, inclusively, and sustainably.
• London’s success depends on colleagues continuously improving and innovating to make moving around our city more safe, inclusive, and sustainable.
• We have the opportunity to improve people’s lives and help our city navigate the future more than almost any other transport body in the world.

Equal Opportunity

• We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion.
• We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation.
• Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible.
• We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria.