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You’ll operate as a core Solutions Architect, designing end-to-end solutions across a complex landscape-while bringing deeper expertise in data to ensure everything we build is driven by insight, enabled by strong data foundations, and aligned to long-term strategy.\nYou’ll play a key role in helping us evolve how we manage, share, and use data-moving towards modern, scalable platforms that support better decision-making and customer outcomes.\nAt Skipton, we're founded on fairness. We exist to do right by our members - and we believe that starts with doing right by our people. So whoever you are and whatever you bring, there's a place for you here and a genuine plan for where you go next.\nWhat You’ll Do\nEvery day at Skipton is innovation day. Join our Technology team and you’ll discover that we’re constantly focused on real challenges as we build the tools that get things done for our members - quicker than you imagine.\nYou’ll play a key role in turning strategic ambitions into practical, deliverable solutions, influencing transformational change, collaborating closely with engineering and product teams, and embedding architecture into delivery to create meaningful, lasting impact.\n\nDesign end-to-end technology solutions aligned to enterprise architecture, strategy, and target-state capabilities\n\nPartner with product owners, delivery leads, and engineering teams to turn complex requirements into clear, actionable designs\n\nGuide and influence technical decisions, balancing short-term delivery with long-term sustainability\n\nProvide architectural governance and assurance across the delivery lifecycle\n\nIdentify risks, trade-offs, and opportunities to improve simplicity, reuse, and coherence\n\nChampion modern architecture approaches, including API-led integration, cloud-native design, and reusable platforms\n\nWe work in a hybrid way, balancing flexibility with collaboration. For this role, you'll typically spend three days a week in our Skipton office, with the remaining two days working from home.\nWhat You’ll Need\nStrong solution architecture experience with the ability to design scalable, end-to-end solutions across applications, platforms and data ecosystems.\nDeep understanding of how data supports business capabilities, customer outcomes and strategic decision-making.\nExperience developing enterprise-scale solutions, balancing immediate delivery needs with long-term data quality, governance and integrity.\nSolid knowledge of data architecture principles, including data modelling, integration patterns, pipelines and information flows.\nFamiliarity with modern architecture patterns (APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, cloud platforms) Azure experienced preferred\nProven ability to collaborate effectively across business, engineering, architecture and analytics teams within agile delivery environments.\nExcellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence and explain complex technical concepts at all levels.\nWhat’s In It For You\nYour work matters.\nAnd the way we reward you matters, too.\nAt Skipton, we offer pay and benefits that really do make life better, together with a genuine thank you for making a difference.\nAnnual discretionary bonus scheme\n\n25 days standard annual leave + bank holidays + rising 1 day per year of service to a max of 30 days\n\nMatching employer pension contribution (up to 10% per annum)\n\nColleague Mortgages and access to Skipton products and services at discounted rates\n\nFlexible working to help balance your commitments\n\nPrivate medical insurance, health and wellbeing app, volunteering opportunities, cycle-to-work scheme, discounted gym memberships\n\nLifestyle perks such as a Home and Tech voucher, which can be used at John Lewis, Currys, and IKEA\n\nWe’re here to make life better for our members.\nAbout Skipton.\nOur story began in 1853 in Skipton, North Yorkshire. Today, you’ll find us across England and Scotland, from Aberdeen to Plymouth.\nWe help over a million members put down roots, save for what matters, and feel good about their money. As a mutual, they own us, so everything we do is for them.\nYou’ll feel that same fairness and purpose in how all 2,500 of our colleagues work together, too.\nIt all means that life at Skipton is more exciting than you imagine.\nWhat it's like to work here\nLife at Skipton\nWe talk and we listen to each other. And we make decisions as a team. That way, you get all the support you need to do work that works for everyone.\nFor most of our roles there's the option of blended working, which means we mix working from home and meeting in person. The right balance depends on your role, and what works best for you, your manager, and your team.\nWe also value what everyone brings to Skipton. And we create a fair place where you can be yourself. Our colleague networks play a big role in this. They connect people with similar life experiences and make our workplace warm, friendly, inclusive and welcoming.\nIt’s not just our members who are important to us.\nYou are, too.\nLots of organisations talk about wellbeing, but they don’t always back it up. As a mutual, we put people first. And that includes the people who work here. So, when we say we care about your wellbeing, we mean it.\nWellbeing isn't just one thing. It’s about feeling good, having energy, and being able to be yourself and perform at your best. That’s why we offer help for your mental and physical health across five key areas.\nWhat’s more, it’s help that you can actually use too - not just read about.\nApply now\nSounds like you? Then apply now.\nYou don't need to tick every box - we look for people who care about our members and who want to grow at the same time. 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