Solutions Architect / Network Architect / Telecoms Architect

Job Description

Solutions Architect

Location: Glasgow

Salary: £63-79K (up to 15% bonus, private healthcare & 15% pension). Hybrid working (2-3 days per week), Permanent

What you’ll be doing

Translate customer requirements into scalable, practical and commercially viable technical solutions. Own end to end design, ensure solutions align with standards, leverage existing services. Act as trusted technical authority, build strong relationships with customers and stakeholders, guide towards successful outcomes.

Provide technical leadership and vision, balancing best practice with pragmatic delivery. Create high level designs, develop statements of work, and oversee implementation for quality, consistency and sustainability.

Collaborate closely with third party vendors, internal delivery and operations teams, and wider business functions to support telecoms capabilities. Play active role in strategy, contract lifecycle management and development of design methodologies, standards and processes.

What you’ll bring

Strong technical background in electrical, electronic or telecoms engineering (or equivalent experience). Understanding of telecoms and critical national infrastructure environments. Hands on experience with IP networking, MPLS, SDH/PDH, fibre, microwave, copper and radio, network synchronisation, DC power systems, and unified communications platforms.

Excellent communicator capable of influencing, presenting and building credibility at all levels. Proactive, solutions focused mindset, able to work under pressure while delivering high quality, cost effective designs. Grasp of industry frameworks such as ITIL or eTOM and willingness to learn.

Benefits

• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday Purchase – extra annual leave
• Share schemes
• Payroll Giving and Charity Matched Funding
• Technology vouchers
• Electric vehicle schemes
• Cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
• Health and medical benefits – dental, private, health cash plan, annual assessments
• Life assurance (4x salary)
• Savesmart financial wellbeing support
• Shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts and employee deals on travel insurance
• Competitive salary reviewed annually
• Company pension match up to 10%

Inclusion, diversity and social purpose

ScottishPower is committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments during recruitment for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy related support.

Mobility

Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with necessary immigration requirements.