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.    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.     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 fantastic benefits on offer: –    Financial: You’ll be compensated a competitive base salary and benefits. Healthcare: We prioritise your health and well-being, offering fully paid private healthcare via Lux Med. Life assurance: 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. Free parking: You’ll have access to underground parking space for cars, motorcycles and bikes. Other perks: 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! 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!     More about Grand Parade    We’re a business that embraces change and progress. With a rich history behind us, we’ve learned a lot and have led the industry in many ways. Now part of evoke, we are marking a new sense of purpose, direction and ambition for the business.   Our culture is all about creating great experiences, for both our customers and our people. You’ll benefit from flexibility and 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. By investing in you, we’ll raise our game. Across all that we do, we aim for excellence, encourage creativity, and have fun.    Apply    At evoke, we prioritise 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. We win together by working as one inclusive team to achieve great things.   So, what’s next? The first step in the recruitment process is to submit your online application, which will be followed by an initial screening call with our Talent Acquisition team, and if successful, you will then be invited to interview.    Apply today to kickstart your application with the evoke family!