Senior Solutions Architect

Ready to shape the architectural vision that will power StepChange's next five years of digital transformation?

Want to lead on modern service design and guide how SaaS, integration, and enterprise solutions come to life across a national charity?

Excited by the chance to build a brand new function and leavea lasting legacyin an organisation putting digital at its core?

StepChangeis embarking on an ambitious new five year strategy with digital innovation at its heart, andwe'relooking for a Senior Solution Architectwho'sexcited to shape that future. In this brand new role,you'llbring deep enterprise architectureexpertiseand solution level insight to design modern services, guide complex integrations, and influence how SaaS products and workloads are delivered across the charity.

Reporting into the Head of Architecture and Data youwill be pivotal in maturing our architectural discipline and enabling truly transformative service design as we reimaginehow we support people in problem debt.

Whatyou'llbe doing

You'lltake ownership of designing the critical architectural foundations that power our new digital advice journey, shaping detailed solutions across enterprise, business, integration, data, technology, and cloud domains. Your work willfocus on a new greenfieldarchitecture landscape, drive the creation of high quality artefacts aligned to our Charity Design Catalogue, and ensure every decision is grounded in well consideredarchitectural viewpoints.You'llplay a key role in major programme decisions, support RFP activity for essential capabilities, and champion strong governance across design, integration, and application portfolio management.

You'llbring your breadth of architecturalexpertise with software engineering background knowledge,to shape high quality, programme level decisions, guiding solutions that cut across every domain of the organisation. From enterprise and business architecture to integration, data, technology, and cloud,you'lldesign cohesive, full stacksolutions that ensure StepChange's digital services are robust, scalable, and aligned to our strategic ambitions. Your ability tooperateconfidently across multiple architectural layers will make you a key voice in how we build and evolve the systems that power our mission.

About you

You'llbring a strong grounding in enterprise IT and cloud native environments, paired with the architectural insight to shape public facing digital experiences across UX, content management, CRM, and external communications. Your understanding of integration technologies and data movement patterns-ideally within an API first landscape-will help you design solutions that are seamless, scalable, and secure.

With exposure to modern security principles across public, private, and hybrid cloud setups,you'llconfidently navigate a varied portfolio, switching between core business architecture and bespoke, finance focused technology design. Your experience in architectural governance andlarge scale transformation means you know how to apply structure without slowing agility, and you bring well formed, principled views shaped by real world delivery.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Equality, diversity, and inclusion are incredibly important to us; we have a culture of belonging.We'realways looking to increase the diversity of our workforce to ensure we can provide the best service possible for everyone.It'snot just about the professional experience you bring -we'reinterested in who you are and your potential. Ifthere'san adjustment to our recruitment process that would help you to be your best, speak to our team andthey'llbe happy to help.