Solution Architect (HR & Payroll)

Solution Architect – HR & Payroll Manchester or Stansted or East Midlands – Hybrid working

At Manchester Airports Group (MAG), we are on a bold journey: to become the world’s most intelligent airport group. That means reimagining how technology, data and automation power our airports and our people.

Incredible journeys are the heart of everything we do, after all – we are the journey makers.

To help us deliver on that ambition, we’re looking for a Solution Architect – HR & Payroll to play a key role in shaping the future of our HR technology landscape across the group.

The Role

As a Solution Architect within the MAG Technology team, you’ll help transform our business through technology, digital capability and automation in our HR and Payroll tower. Working across our airports and group functions, you’ll define and design technology solutions that meet business requirements while considering systems, data, processes and people.

This role will be particularly focused on the architectural design and oversight of our SAP SuccessFactors HCM & Payroll platform, ensuring it supports our colleagues and leaders with modern, scalable and intelligent HR capabilities.

You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders across the organisation, influencing decisions and building consensus to ensure our HR technology strategy aligns with MAG’s wider ambition to become a data-driven, digitally enabled airport group.

What You’ll Be Doing

· Define and own solution architectures that support MAG’s HR and Payroll systems and strategy

· Lead the architectural design and governance of our SAP SuccessFactors landscape, including

core HCM and payroll capabilities

· Translate business requirements into robust, scalable technology solutions

· Develop and maintain technology roadmaps that support long-term transformation

· Work across enterprise, application, service, infrastructure and data architecture domains

· Collaborate with engineering, delivery and business teams to ensure solutions are delivered effectively

· Ensure solutions consider security, resilience, scalability and integration across the wider MAG technology ecosystem

As our successful Solution Architect for HR & Payroll you’ll bring:

· Hands-on experience with a tier 1 HR & Payroll system (essential)

· Experience designing and maintaining technical architecture using a recognised framework such as TOGAF

· Strong knowledge of enterprise technologies including cloud platforms, infrastructure,

development and DevOps toolsets

· Experience creating and delivering technology strategies and roadmaps in complex organisations

· Excellent stakeholder management, communication and presentation skills

· Commercial awareness and the ability to influence at senior levels

What’s in it for you?

Joining MAG means being part of a technology transformation at scale. Our airports serve millions of passengers each year, and our ambition to become the world’s most intelligent airport group puts technology and data at the centre of everything we do.

You’ll have the opportunity to shape platforms used by thousands of colleagues, work on meaningful transformation programmes, and collaborate with talented teams across Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands airports.

This is a role with significant influence in our business system space and a true opportunity to see true impact of your work and skills.

Benefits Include:

- Bonus scheme

- 10% company contribution pension

- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

- Free parking

- Subsidised public transport

- Huge range of company discounts

- 2 volunteering days per year

- Free Virtual GP service, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

- Care Concierge service

Ready to become a journey maker and drive forward our ambition to be the worlds most intelligent airport group?

Apply via the link. Equal Opportunities & Reasonable Adjustments

We’re building something brilliant at MAG: a diverse team of Journey Makers who share our values and want to make a difference. We’re on a mission to be number one in our industry, and that takes talent in all its forms. With so many exciting roles across our airports and businesses, there’s space for your unique strengths to shine.

Whether this is your first role or your next big step, we want to hear from you – even if you don’t think you tick every box. What matters most is what you bring.

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident employer. If you need any adjustments to support your application or interview, just let us know. We’re committed to helping you perform at your best.

At MAG, every journey matters. Our Colleague Communities play a big part in that: Women’s Network, Embrace (Race & Ethnicity), Fly with Pride (LGBTQIA+), Mind Matters (Mental Health), PACT (Parents & Carers), RespectABILITY (Disability & Neurodiversity), and the CAVU Global ID&E Affinity Group.