Solution Architect
Posted 2 days 1 hour ago by Griffiths Waite Limited
Joining Griffiths Waite (GW) as a Solution Architect offers an outstanding opportunity for professional growth and impact.
At GW, we pride ourselves on strong engineering principles, forward-thinking use of AI, and a commitment to rapid, high-quality delivery - creating an ideal environment to shape solutions and influence outcomes.
We're looking for Solution Architects who are curious, commercially aware, and comfortable operating close to the client problem. You should bring strong technical breadth, clear communication, and a calm, structured approach to leading teams through complexity.
About UsGriffiths Waite is a forward-thinking software company that specialises in creating innovative solutions for enterprise clients. Our mission is to design intuitive, user-centric digital products that deliver exceptional value and lasting impact.
Our core values define who we are:
- Brilliance - We move with purpose, innovate boldly, and simplify complexity to deliver high-impact results with clarity and speed.
- Trust - We build lasting relationships through integrity, transparency, and a deep commitment to our clients' best interests.
- Collaboration - We work together openly and supportively, believing that true success is a shared achievement.
- Ownership - We take responsibility for what we deliver, stay solution-focused, and always follow through on our promises.
If these values resonate with you, we'd love to hear from you.
What You'll Be Doing as a Solution ArchitectAs a Solution Architect at Griffiths Waite, you'll sit at the intersection of business, product, and engineering. You will shape end-to-end solutions for our enterprise clients, ensuring that what we design is both technically robust and tightly aligned to business outcomes.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Leading discovery and shaping work: clarifying objectives, mapping current state, and defining target architectures and solution options.
- Designing secure, scalable, and maintainable architectures across APIs, data, UI, and integration with enterprise systems.
- Working closely with product, engineering, and client stakeholders to translate business needs into clear technical roadmaps and delivery plans.
- Providing hands-on technical leadership to engineering teams: reviewing designs, unblocking complex problems, and ensuring good engineering practices.
- Making and documenting key architectural decisions, including trade-offs, constraints, and non-functional requirements.
- Helping clients understand the implications of architectural choices in plain language, building confidence and trust.
- Contributing to GW's internal engineering and architecture principles, and helping teams apply them consistently across engagements.
You may still be hands-on where it adds value (for example, defining reference implementations, spikes, or proof-of-concepts), but the core of the role is solution design, technical leadership, and stakeholder alignment rather than full-time coding.
What We Are Looking For - SkillsThe ideal candidate brings strong technical breadth across application and data domains, with enough depth to guide good decisions and challenge assumptions.
Experience and knowledge that would be well suited to this role includes:
- Solid experience designing and delivering distributed systems and API-led solutions in an enterprise context.
- Practical understanding of modern engineering stacks, ideally including:
- TypeScript / JavaScript
- Node.js for API development (for example Fastify or Express)
- Modern web frameworks such as React or Next.js
We're passionate about driving value with AI, so any experience designing solutions that integrate with LLMs, vector search, or other AI-enabled services is a strong bonus.
You do not need to be an expert in every technology we use, but you should be comfortable reasoning about trade-offs, asking the right questions, and guiding teams towards pragmatic, high-quality solutions.
What We Offer- Salary up to £75,000 per annum, depending on experience.
- 25 days of annual leave plus all UK bank holidays.
- Opportunity to work on innovative, high-impact projects with a talented cross-functional team.
- Professional development and training opportunities, including time for learning and knowledge sharing.
- Flexible working hours and hybrid/remote work options.
- A collaborative and supportive company culture where your voice matters.
- Strong client relationships with regular contact, giving you real influence on product and technology direction.
- Opportunities to shape our architecture practice and mentor engineers across a small, focused consultancy.
- Regular company celebrations (Summer and Christmas parties!).
- Gym and fitness studio.
- Office located 60 seconds from New Street Station - right in the heart of Birmingham city centre.
- Professional development and training opportunities
- Opportunities for skill mastery and mentoring
- Work on innovative projects with a talented team
- Small consultancy where everyone's opinion counts
- Flexible working hours and remote work options
- Collaborative and supportive company culture
- Strong client relationships with daily contact
- Regular company celebrations (Summer and Christmas Parties!)
- Office minutes from New Street Station
- Right in the heart of Birmingham City Centre
- Gym and fitness studio
Send your CV and a brief cover letter explaining why you're a great fit for this role to:
We're excited to see your work and learn more about you!
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