Solutions Architect

Lead Solution Architect

• Permenant
• Remote/Home-Based, UK
• £100000 - £115000 PA

Our client builds and operates ground-breaking, ultra-secure, high-performance, cloud-based data infrastructure for the enterprise. Their proprietary technology solutions drive performance and reduce costs while helping clients to improve the management and sharing of data across their organisations.

A UK Government Security Check (SC) clearance is required for this role. If you don’t hold SC clearance, we will support you to apply, assuming you have lived and worked in the UK for a minimum of 5 years. Due to project requirements, at least 12 months of Central Government experience in the last 5 years is strongly preferred.

Duties & Responsibilities

They deliver secure cloud-hosted solutions into the public and private sectors and are rapidly expanding and are looking to hire a Solution Architect to support our product delivery.

The successful candidate will need to have a good blend of HLD and LLD design experience around Security, Data, Cloud, Service and Solution. You will be seeing designs through from start to finish, incorporating everything from technology to solution, assurance, governance, and security (pen testing) - Not from a hands-on perspective but from a design perspective. You will need to be client-facing and be able to make complex designs seem simple to customers.

Key Tasks:

• Research and develop high-level and detailed solution designs
• Monitor technical deliverables against the designs, manage and report on design divergences
• Contribute to technical Change Requests
• Maintain and monitor solutions against Non-functional requirements, design principles and patterns
• Support solution option analysis and provide architectural recommendations
• Maintain the As-Is design against the build, identifying design branches to be included in the core product set
• Capture the technology stack and map it to the architecture
• Closely collaborate with and guide the DevOps and application development teams

Core Competencies

• Skilled in designing distributed, event-driven systems
• Platform and application development
• Has recently designed services that reside on AWS, Azure, GCP or hybrid environments
• Has the ability to work in and has strong knowledge of agile development and modern CD/CI approaches
• Understands how security design is integrated into the solution design

Will need extensive experience in:

• Delivery - designing, delivering platforms and managed services at enterprise scale, specifically bespoke software solutions, particularly in streaming and cloud-native solutions
• Data - solving enterprise data and analytics problems using technology
• Cloud - hands-on Public Cloud experience in either AWS/Azure/Google, both their 'services' and 'how' to work in the cloud such as DevOps-centric approach
• Security - having worked in sensitive data environments

In return, they offer a competitive salary, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, company paid medical insurance and life assurance, pension scheme, annual training allowance, wellbeing allowance, virtual GP, Employee Assistance plan, and more.

If this is the right role for you and you are eligable please do apply.