Solutions Architect
| Posting date: | 20 August 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £53,583 to £58,455 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 August 2025 |
| Location: | Newcastle, Newcastle |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 4 days per week |
| Company: | Northumbria Police |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
Salary Band 11, £53,583 – £58,455
Location: Agile, Forth Banks Police Station and homeworking
Hours/Contract: 37 hours per week, permanent
The role
Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Digital Department as a Solutions Architect.
What you’ll do
- Translate business needs into technical solutions that align with the Force’s vision and support ongoing projects and improvements.
- Collaborate with business and technology partners to explore innovative ideas and define viable technical options.
- Lead a systems analysis team, ensuring consistent, high-quality approaches to design and testing.
- Identify and mitigate risks in both functional and non-functional aspects of proposed solutions.
- Ensure architectural compliance by working closely with Enterprise and Domain Architects across technical, security, data, and application domains.
- Own and govern technical standards across the Force, maintaining a standards register and driving compliance.
- Act as the technology authority for new solutions, supporting project estimates, resolving architectural/integration issues, and contributing to incident and problem management through root cause analysis and technical solution definition.
What you’ll bring
- A degree (or equivalent experience) in IT or related field.
- Proven experience designing systems that align with business and architectural goals.
- Strong knowledge of IT services, tools, and technologies across the full software lifecycle.
- Skilled in Agile and Waterfall methodologies, and ITSM tools.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities effectively.
- Independent and collaborative problem solver with a focus on innovation.
- Leadership in mentoring, strategic guidance, and team development.
- Commitment to continuous improvement and delivering consistent, high-quality service.
We know it’s important for you to feel that you’re not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone.
Just so you know
Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of a Solutions Architect with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute.
The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form followed by a face to face interview. Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert.
We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, with whom we collaborate with to improve the lives of disabled employees. We are also a Disability Confident Employer, therefore if you demonstrate that you meet the minimum criteria for this role as stated in the advert, we will progress your application and offer you an interview.
If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Recruitment Vetting (RV) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 3 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references.
Terms of appointment
This is a permanent role subject to a six-month probationary period.
If you are successful in your application, you will have a six-month probation period with us where you will be unable to apply for any other post advertised internally or externally.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Location: Agile, Forth Banks Police Station and homeworking
Hours/Contract: 37 hours per week, permanent
The role
Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Digital Department as a Solutions Architect.
What you’ll do
- Translate business needs into technical solutions that align with the Force’s vision and support ongoing projects and improvements.
- Collaborate with business and technology partners to explore innovative ideas and define viable technical options.
- Lead a systems analysis team, ensuring consistent, high-quality approaches to design and testing.
- Identify and mitigate risks in both functional and non-functional aspects of proposed solutions.
- Ensure architectural compliance by working closely with Enterprise and Domain Architects across technical, security, data, and application domains.
- Own and govern technical standards across the Force, maintaining a standards register and driving compliance.
- Act as the technology authority for new solutions, supporting project estimates, resolving architectural/integration issues, and contributing to incident and problem management through root cause analysis and technical solution definition.
What you’ll bring
- A degree (or equivalent experience) in IT or related field.
- Proven experience designing systems that align with business and architectural goals.
- Strong knowledge of IT services, tools, and technologies across the full software lifecycle.
- Skilled in Agile and Waterfall methodologies, and ITSM tools.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities effectively.
- Independent and collaborative problem solver with a focus on innovation.
- Leadership in mentoring, strategic guidance, and team development.
- Commitment to continuous improvement and delivering consistent, high-quality service.
We know it’s important for you to feel that you’re not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone.
Just so you know
Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of a Solutions Architect with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute.
The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form followed by a face to face interview. Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert.
We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, with whom we collaborate with to improve the lives of disabled employees. We are also a Disability Confident Employer, therefore if you demonstrate that you meet the minimum criteria for this role as stated in the advert, we will progress your application and offer you an interview.
If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Recruitment Vetting (RV) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 3 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references.
Terms of appointment
This is a permanent role subject to a six-month probationary period.
If you are successful in your application, you will have a six-month probation period with us where you will be unable to apply for any other post advertised internally or externally.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.