Solutions Architect - Team Lead
Join us at evoke plc, as a Team Lead Solution Architect! Here you'll lead a team of Solution Architects across multiple domains, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, scalable, and robust solutions aligned to business needs. You'll combine technical leadership, people leadership, and hands-on architectural guidance, acting as a “player-coach” to your team. You'll be accountable for solution quality, consistency, and execution across your domains, while supporting strategic direction set by senior architecture leadership. This role is critical in bridging architecture strategy and delivery execution, ensuring that solutions are not only well-designed but also successfully implemented.
- Leading, mentoring, and developing a team of 4–6 Solution Architects across multiple domains, setting clear expectations, goals, and standards for architectural excellence.
- You'll foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Driving consistency in ways of working, tools, and architectural practices
- Overseeing the end-to-end solution architecture across 3–6 domains and ensuring solutions are aligned with business objectives and delivered to a high standard.
- You'll support and guide architects in defining; Solution designs, System interactions, Non-functional requirements (performance, scalability, security)
- Acting as escalation point for complex architectural challenges and providing deep technical input where needed
- Ensuring adherence to architectural standards, principles, and best practices whilst reviewing and approve solution designs where required.
- You'll drive consistency and reuse across domains
- Identify and managing technical debt, and trade-offs whilst supporting governance processes and ensure solutions are fit-for-purpose and compliant
- Working closely with engineering teams, product managers, and delivery leads, translating business needs into clear architectural direction, communicating solutions effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences, alongside building excellent working relationships across mid-level stakeholders
- Support Lead Architects / Head of Architecture in executing technology strategy and roadmaps, whilst contributing domain-level insights to inform strategic decisions and ensuring alignment between long-term architecture vision and short-term delivery
- Remaining technically engaged, contributing to solution design for complex or critical initiatives, leading key design workshops and architecture discussions.
- Proven experience as a Solution Architect in high-scale, complex environments with experience leading or mentoring architects or senior engineers (required).
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with experience designing scalable, high-performance, distributed systems (required).
- Expert understanding of Cloud platforms (preferably AWS), microservices and event-driven architectures, APIs, integrations, and data flows (required).
- Experience working in Agile environments with cross-functional teams and ability to balance technical depth with leadership responsibilities (required).
- You’ll be compensated a competitive base salary and benefits.
- Fully paid private healthcare via Lux Med.
- Safeguarding your financial future and offering peace of mind with a company-sponsored life assurance plan.
- Wellbeing events: Including workshops, webinars; Psychological Helpline for you and your loved ones; access to psychological platforms such as Unmind.
- Social activities: We love a chance to share knowledge and have fun, coordinating meetups, quality questions events and hackathons.
- You’ll have access to underground parking space for cars, motorcycles and bikes.
- Fully paid Multisport pass or MyBenefit cafeteria points, employee referral program, and an extra day off for your birthday.
- We also offer free English and Polish classes for our colleagues!
- Our employees can work from home up to 80% of the time with 20% of office time built in to ensure we get some face-to-face collaborative team time - and the chance for a coffee and a catch-up!
William Hill is one of the UK's best-known bookmakers, founded by its namesake in 1934 taking bets around Birmingham. It has since grown into an international, multi-brand betting and gaming business spanning online and retail. The company is now part of evoke plc (formerly 888 Holdings), one of the world's leading online betting and gaming groups. Headquartered in London, William Hill operates sports betting and gaming products across multiple markets.