Solution Architect

Solution Architect Overview

Arup is seeking a Solution Architect to join its Digital Advisory team within the UKIMEA region. The role sits within a growing client-facing solution and enterprise architecture practice and is focused on helping deliver sustainable digital solutions for external clients, while also contributing to related work that supports Arup’s own building engineering and design services when required.

In this position, you would be part of a multidisciplinary consulting environment and help shape solutions from the earliest design stages through implementation. The work spans architecture, strategy, analysis, and delivery support, with an emphasis on practical, high-quality design decisions that align with client needs and Arup’s broader purpose.

What you would do

• Collaborate with consultants from different disciplines to design digital solutions that are sustainable and fit for purpose.
• Take the lead on high-level design discussions and workshops with clients, helping define the overall solution direction.
• Provide architectural review and assurance while working with the software development team during implementation.
• Develop technology strategy content and perform analysis that informs solution choices and delivery planning.
• Support, where needed, solutions that complement Arup’s building engineering and design work.
• Contribute to solutions that may involve cloud services, data integration, analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and GIS-based applications.

What the team is looking for

• Experience in one or more built environment sectors, such as energy, water, rail, highways, aviation, buildings, or sustainability.
• Energy-sector experience is especially valuable for this opportunity.
• Experience delivering technology projects or products in an IT function, IT services environment, or IT consulting role.
• Solid understanding of one or more architecture specialisms, including solution architecture, data architecture, cloud architecture across AWS, Azure, or GCP, integration architecture, or enterprise architecture.
• Practical experience with business analysis, digital requirements management, and project management approaches.
• Ability to produce non-functional requirements and to manage risks and dependencies effectively.
• Experience working within the software development lifecycle.
• Familiarity with both agile and waterfall delivery methods.
• Experience working with the Government Digital Services Framework.

What Arup offers

Arup describes its reward approach as a package that recognises contribution and supports shared success. In addition to competitive, fair, and equitable pay, the organisation offers a range of benefits intended to support health, wellbeing, learning, and long-term career growth.

• Profit share, enabling members to participate in the results of collective success.
• Private medical insurance.
• Life assurance.
• Accident insurance.
• Income protection cover.
• Flexible benefits that can be adapted to suit personal, family, and wellbeing needs.
• Access to learning opportunities and development support.
• A workplace where people are encouraged to belong, grow, and thrive.
• The opportunity to work on ambitious projects that create positive outcomes for clients and communities.

Culture and inclusion

Arup presents itself as an equal opportunity employer with a strong commitment to diversity, inclusion, and belonging. The company welcomes applicants from a wide range of backgrounds and says it actively supports an open environment where different experiences, perspectives, and ideas are valued.

The organisation also highlights internal employee networks that support inclusion across race and cross-cultural working, gender equity, LGBTQ+ inclusion, and disability inclusion. Its approach is aligned with its values and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, with an emphasis on creating equitable spaces and systems.

Application and contact details

Applicants who have questions or are not ready to apply immediately can contact Marek Mazurowski by email. The page specifically asks candidates not to send their CV directly to that email address because of GDPR requirements.

Arup also directs candidates to its application process information online and notes that it will never ask for payment or bank details during recruitment. The company states that it works with a preferred supplier list of recruitment agencies and does not accept speculative CVs or unsolicited introductions from agencies that are not on that list.

The closing date shown on the page is 11 July 2026, although Arup says it may close the vacancy earlier if it receives a high volume of applications, so candidates are encouraged to apply promptly.

The role is advertised in London, with additional locations listed in Bristol, Leeds, Birmingham, Manchester, and Edinburgh.

Degree Requirement: Not Specified

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