Job Description

As a Team Lead Solution Architect, you will lead a team of Solution Architects across multiple domains, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, scalable, and robust solutions aligned to business needs.

You will combine technical leadership, people leadership, and hands-on architectural guidance, acting as a “player-coach” to your team. You will 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:

Leadership & People Management

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of 4–6 Solution Architects across multiple domains
• Set clear expectations, goals, and standards for architectural excellence
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Provide coaching and hands-on support to architects in complex problem-solving
• Drive consistency in ways of working, tools, and architectural practices

Solution Ownership & Delivery

• Oversee the end-to-end solution architecture across 3–6 domains
• Ensure solutions are aligned with business objectives and delivered to a high standard
• Support and guide architects in defining:
• Solution designs
• System interactions
• Non-functional requirements (performance, scalability, security)
• Act as escalation point for complex architectural challenges

Architecture Governance & Quality

• Ensure adherence to architectural standards, principles, and best practices
• Review and approve solution designs where required
• Drive consistency and reuse across domains
• Identify and manage technical debt, risks, and trade-offs
• Support governance processes and ensure solutions are fit-for-purpose and compliant

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Work closely with engineering teams, product managers, and delivery leads
• Translate business needs into clear architectural direction
• Communicate solutions effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Build strong working relationships across mid-level stakeholders

Strategy Alignment

• Support Lead Architects / Head of Architecture in executing technology strategy and roadmaps
• Contribute domain-level insights to inform strategic decisions
• Ensure alignment between long-term architecture vision and short-term delivery

Hands-on Contribution

• Remain technically engaged, contributing to solution design for complex or critical initiatives
• Lead key design workshops and architecture discussions
• Provide deep technical input where needed

Requirements

Who we are looking for:

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect (5+ years) in high-scale, complex environments
• Experience leading or mentoring architects or senior engineers
• Strong experience designing scalable, high-performance, distributed systems
• Deep 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
• Ability to balance technical depth with leadership responsibilities
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Behaviours We Look For

• Leads by example with high standards of quality and accountability
• Strong ownership mindset with a delivery-focused approach
• Collaborative and pragmatic decision-maker
• Ability to influence without authority
• Drives alignment across teams and domains
• Comfortable operating in complexity and ambiguity

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!