Solutions Architect

In this role you design secure, scalable architectures for mission-critical national services and guide cross-functional teams to deliver measurable value. You act as a trusted advisor, shaping technology direction and ensuring robust, future-ready solutions. You collaborate with clients and delivery teams while embedding security and compliance practices. This role offers ownership from day one and the chance to influence architecture across diverse national programs.

• competitive salary
• excellent pension
• private healthcare
• share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching)

• Define end-to-end solution architectures for mission-critical national services
• Create clear architecture documentation and reusable patterns
• Advise senior stakeholders on technology direction
• Embed security and compliance practices across solutions
• Guide engineering teams and champion quality
• Evaluate emerging technologies and drive continuous improvement

• Experience designing secure, scalable, resilient architectures with ongoing innovation
• Knowledge of microservices and event-driven patterns
• Ability to produce clear architectural documentation and patterns for varied audiences
• Hands-on engineering experience (IaC, DevOps, Java/Python/.NET)
• Strong understanding of security architecture and risk management
• Experience influencing teams and stakeholders

• Communication
• Influence and stakeholder management
• Mentorship and collaboration
• AWS capabilities (continuous assessment and adoption)
• Microservices
• Event-driven architectures