Solution Architect

Job Details:

Salary range: £56,436 - £76,872 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience.
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent 
Closing date: 24 July 2026
Interview Date: Week Commencing 3 August 2026

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE CARRICK YARD INVESTMENT

The Finance Team in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories, where we go above and beyond for our residents – in all sorts of pioneering ways. Our work has the ability to have profound impact on residents’ lives. By being smart and courageous with the council’s finances means we can achieve more for our residents.

Take the Carrick Yard housing development in Luton Street. When a big international building firm couldn’t find a sales partner, we stepped in to create a joint venture partnership and underwrite any unsold units to protect our investment. Then when we felt a big banking partner would be overcharging the venture for financing the development, we decided to finance it ourselves. The result? 171 homes are now under construction, leading the redevelopment of the Church Street area, whilst the council is projecting a potential return on investment of almost 14% – far in excess of anything that can be achieved on cash deposits in current market conditions.

And why does this success matter? Because it allows us to invest even more in public services that are the lifeblood of our communities.

Please view the extraordinary story of the Carrick Yard Investment here.

The Role:

As a Solution Architect, you can make your own powerful contribution to people across Westminster. Working across our Digital and Innovation profile, you’ll take a proactive and relentless approach to delivery, enabling impactful change that improves outcomes for Westminster’s residents, businesses, visitors and staff.

Your day-to-day will be varied and dynamic, including everything from creating end-to-end solutions and designs for complex services, to ensuring technology is compliant with architectural strategy and standards. Working with suppliers and delivery teams across the organisation, you’ll prioritise value for money and accessibility — effectively translating user and business need into designs.

An expert in your field, we’ll look to you to make recommendations about which services to stop, degrade, renew or rebuild, and you’ll be responsible for ensuring the technical integrity and consistency of each solution at every stage of its life-cycle.  

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

About You:

An established professional with knowledge of solution architecture and its relevant technologies, tools, platforms, best practice, industry trends and risks, you’ll have previous experience delivering designs, patterns and decisions in an agile development environment. Your knowledge of modern technology practices around infrastructure, hosting, platforms and integration will be vast, as will your understanding of the environmental footprint of technology.

On a personal level, you’ll be a strong communicator capable of explaining complex topics to non-technical stakeholders. Collaborative, proactive and highly organised, you’ll be passionate about improving the Council’s technology suite for the benefit of people across Westminster. This is a fantastic opportunity to help shape an agile, innovative service, and to supercharge your career in the process. 

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce. We especially encourage applications from a Global Majority (GM), people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities' (formally known as B.A.M.E, Black, Asian and multiple ethnic) background and, while the role is open to all applicants, we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit. If you are from a Global Majority background you can self-declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe. At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is Our Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/

As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working. 

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.    

We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.