Solution Architect

Solution Architect Overview

Arup is seeking a solution architect to join and help expand its client-facing solution and enterprise architecture capability within the Digital Advisory team. The role sits in the UKIMEA region and is based in London, with additional listed locations in Bristol, Leeds, Birmingham, Manchester, and Edinburgh. The position is part of a multidisciplinary consulting environment focused on creating sustainable digital solutions and supporting their delivery from design through implementation.

The successful candidate will work on a range of architecture and advisory activities for clients, helping shape technology direction and ensuring that solutions are designed and delivered with appropriate architectural oversight. The work may also extend, from time to time, to digital solutions that support Arup’s own building engineering and design services. The kinds of technologies involved include cloud platforms, data integration and analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and GIS-based applications.

What you will do

• Lead high-level design discussions and architecture activities with clients, helping define the shape of sustainable digital solutions.
• Provide architectural assurance and guidance to the software development team so that implementation remains aligned with the intended design.
• Contribute to technology strategy development and carry out analysis that supports solution and enterprise architecture decisions.
• Work as part of a multidisciplinary consulting team, collaborating with colleagues across disciplines to deliver client outcomes.
• Support the creation and delivery of digital solutions that may use cloud services, data integration, analytics, AI and ML, and GIS technologies.
• Where needed, assist with solutions that complement Arup’s building engineering and design work.
• Help strengthen a growing practice that combines solution architecture and enterprise architecture in a client-facing setting.

What Arup 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 highlighted as particularly useful.
• A track record of delivering technology projects or products in an IT function, IT services organisation, or IT consulting environment.
• Solid understanding of at least one architecture discipline, such as solution architecture, data architecture, cloud architecture across AWS, Azure, or GCP, integration architecture, or enterprise architecture.
• 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.
• The ability to operate in a consulting environment where client engagement, collaboration, and architectural judgement are important.

Reward and benefits

Arup says it offers a competitive and equitable pay approach alongside a broader total reward package. The organisation emphasises that members share in collective success and can build careers that allow them to belong, grow, and thrive.

• Profit share.
• Private medical insurance.
• Life assurance.
• Accident insurance.
• Income protection cover.
• Flexible benefits to support wellbeing and personal or family needs.
• Learning opportunities and development support.
• A culture that encourages meaningful, socially useful work and the chance to make an impact for clients and communities.

Culture, inclusion, and support

Arup describes itself as an equal opportunity employer with an active commitment to diversity and inclusion. Applications are welcomed from people of all backgrounds, within legal limits, including candidates of different ages, gender identities or expressions, marital statuses, disabilities, neurotypes, mental health backgrounds, races, ethnicities, faiths or beliefs, sexual orientations, socioeconomic backgrounds, and family circumstances.

The company says it aims to create an open environment where different experiences, perspectives, and ideas are valued. It also notes that its internal employee networks support inclusion across race and cross-cultural working, gender equity, LGBTQ+ inclusion, and disability inclusion. The organisation links its values to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and says it works to create equitable spaces and systems while fostering a sense of belonging.

Arup also states that it is committed to making its recruitment process and workplaces accessible. Candidates who need assistance or reasonable adjustments during the application or interview process, or to perform the essential functions of the role, are encouraged to contact the named recruiter.

How to apply and other notes

Interested candidates are directed to apply through the careers site. For questions about the role, the page provides contact details for Marek Mazurowski, and it specifically asks applicants not to send CVs directly by email in order to remain GDPR compliant.

The page also links to Arup’s application process information and advises candidates to apply early because the role may close before the advertised deadline if a large number of applications are received. The closing date shown is 11 July 2026.

Arup includes a reminder about recruitment fraud, stating that it will never ask for payment or bank details during recruitment. It also notes that it works with a preferred supplier list of recruitment agencies and does not accept speculative CVs or unsolicited introductions from agencies outside that list.

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