Solution Architect - Team Leader

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.  

What you will be doing:

• 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.

Requirements

Who we are looking for: 

We are committed to responsible gambling, and we are looking for people who can support our ethos. To apply to this post, you will have: 

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect  in high-scale, complex environments with experience leading or mentoring architects or senior engineers
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills  with experience designing scalable, high-performance, distributed systems
• Expert understanding of Cloud platforms (preferably AWS), microservices and event-driven architectures, APIs, integrations, and data flows
• Experience working in Agile environments with cross-functional teams and ability to balance technical depth with leadership responsibilities.

What we offer:

Our roles offer more than just a job, you’ll become part of the evoke family! We have created an environment where our people can thrive. Check out some of the fantastic benefits on offer:

• Financial: Competitive salary
• Hybrid working: 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!
• Holiday entitlement: You’ll be entitled to 22 annual leave days, plus bank holidays and an extra day for your birthday.
• eLearning
• Family Support: Industry-leading maternity and paternity leave and paid time off if you have caring responsibilities.
• Health & wellbeing: Tools and services to help support your well-being, including support with mental health and financial education. You will also have access to gym discounts.
• Healthcare: We prioritize your health and well-being, offering comprehensive healthcare benefits.
• ...and more

More about evoke

We’re a business that embraces change and progress. The power behind big name brands William Hill, 888 and Mr Green, evoke is the new name for 888 Holdings. Marking a new sense of purpose, direction and ambition for the business, there couldn’t be a more exciting time to join us as we accelerate our journey to bring even greater delight to our customers with world-class betting and gaming experiences. That’s the future. That’s evoke. 

At evoke, you’ll benefit from flexibility and a culture built on trust. We’ll give you the space to be yourself and the tools you need to protect our customers while they play. We’ll invest in your future to help you develop your unique strengths and build a career that’s right for you. 

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At evoke, we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion for the benefit of our company, employees, and communities. We foster a welcoming and safe workplace that values all forms of diversity and provides opportunities for growth. 

Sound good? Then you belong at our place! The first step in the recruitment process is kickstarting your application, followed by an initial screening call and an interview stage.

Apply today to kickstart your application with the evoke Family!