Solution Architect Principal

Job Req ID:57798

Posting Date: 15/04/2026

Function: Architecture Solution and Design

Location:Birmingham, London

Working style: Hybrid (3 days a week in office, 2 days from anywhere)

About the role

We are seeking a Principal Solution Architect to join our Broadband team as the overall design authority for Content Delivery Network (CDN) and Edge Compute solutions across BT, EE, and Plusnet’s broadband and mobile services. As a senior techical leader, you  will drive the development and delivery of a pan-BT strategy for edge compute and content delivery, collaborating with Customer Facing Units and strategic partners to:

• Create innovative services for customers and partners
• Develop and expand revenue streams
• Enhance customer experience
• Simplify and consolidate CDN and edge compute functions
• Deliver strategic transformation using cloud technologies and agile methodologies

We’ve seen an explosion in the volume of TV delivery across our network—a trend we expect to accelerate. To meet this demand, we’re looking for someone with significant CDN (Content Delivery Network) design expertise to help us co-create cutting-edge solutions with our content partners and deliver the best possible experience to our customers.

Aligned with this, we also anticipate the continued convergence of CDN and edge compute capabilities. Experience in both domains will be highly valuable as we evolve our network to support new services, unlock fresh opportunities, and deliver enhanced performance at the edge.

You’ll bring thought leadership, shape strategy beyond your immediate remit, and share your expertise across teams. A strong background in TV and content distribution technologies, combined with a passion for innovation and product development, will be key to helping us build the future of content delivery.

What you’ll be doing

• Develop, influence and deliver strategy to address highly commercial and technical opportunities that are complex, cross-domain or of high impact to customers in support of BT Group goals.
• Create and implement cross-domain technical solutions for CDN and Edge compute,
• Operate as a technical expert to architect, design and oversee implementation of CDN and edge compute solutions for BT Group’s strategic partners, including software development and additional innovative capabilities.
• Draw on industry and market insight, together with emerging technologies, whilst understanding the internal and external impact of solutions.
• Ensure solutions support BT’s commercial, technical and strategic objectives.
• Provide technical leadership for CDN and edge compute to our people across BT Group, developing engagement, vision, skill and capability in the team through inspiring communication, mentoring, coaching, knowledge sharing and participation in goal setting and evaluation.
• Provide expert technical expertise to consult on end-to-end technical solutions in the CDN and edge compute domain.
• Identify opportunities to redefine standards of practice within a CDN and edge compute, continuously enhancing ways of working.
• Provide coaching, leadership and technical guidance to other engineers and developers working in the area.
• Develop design patterns across CDN/edge and associated domains.
• Develop close and effective relationships with customers/partners, suppliers and colleagues at a senior level up to CxO, and be able to confidently present information, facilitate negotiations, and provide thought leadership to them.
• Drive transformation of the technology platform and operating model through the adoption of agile methodologies and automated capabilities.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Demonstrated ability to design and develop complex solution architectures, introducing innovative technologies—often for the first time—across multiple domains in a critical service provider environment.
• Deep expertise across a broad range of disciplines, including software development, IP networking, cloud/server infrastructure, broadband, mobile, and TV distribution technologies.
• Proven capability in developing both end-to-end solution architectures and detailed designs for specific CDN (Content delivery network) and edge compute capabilities.
• Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with both on-premise and public cloud deployments.
• Track record of delivering end-to-end solution architectures for complex, large-scale, customer-facing service provider products.
• Aligned technical and project delivery plans with overarching business strategy and values, while also demonstrating the ability to lead or contribute to projects outside of core areas of expertise.
• Skilled in making sound decisions in ambiguous situations, often with incomplete information or conflicting viewpoints.
• Experience in leading strategy development.
• Recognised subject matter expert and thought leader in a significant technology domain.
• Proven leadership in design communities within complex carrier, service provider, or web-scale network environments.
• Proficient in agile methodologies and ways of working.
• Demonstrated ability to lead or contribute to projects outside of core areas of expertise, showcasing adaptability and breadth of knowledge.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Certified Product Owner with practical experience managing a significant, related product.
• Strong background in media production and distribution technologies.
• Experience in a senior technical leadership role within a service provider, hyperscaler, or media production/distribution organisation.
• Leadership skills.

Our Package

Tailored benefits make a real difference. That’s why we offer a comprehensive range to support your growth, wellbeing, and everyday life. You can design the package to suit you and your lifestyle. Your core benefits include:

• Company car scheme (or cash alternative)
• 15% on target annual bonus
• Private healthcare for you and your family
• Access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family 
• Market-leading paid carers leave with up to 2 weeks off 
• Equalised maternity, paternity, and adoption leave – 18 weeks’ full pay and 8 weeks’ half pay
• Discounted EE and BT products, including mobile and broadband
• Market leading Pension scheme – 5% from you and 10% from us
• Holiday purchase scheme

You can select additional benefits, including healthcare, dental, gym memberships and more when you’re ready.

BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good.  Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers. 

BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.

Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country.   Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.