Solution Architect
Solution Architect SC Cleared - £525/day via Umbrella - 6 Month Contract - Remote - SCC Flex Contract
We are seeking an experienced Solution Architect - Disaster Recovery & Resilience (SC Cleared) to provide architectural assurance, technical challenge and recovery design insight across business-critical services. This role is ideal for a Solution Architect - Disaster Recovery & Resilience who can assess existing and proposed recovery solutions and shape improved resilience approaches where gaps or inefficiencies exist.
Your responsibilities as the Solution Architect - Disaster Recovery & Resilience:
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We are seeking an experienced Solution Architect - Disaster Recovery & Resilience (SC Cleared) to provide architectural assurance, technical challenge and recovery design insight across business-critical services. This role is ideal for a Solution Architect - Disaster Recovery & Resilience who can assess existing and proposed recovery solutions and shape improved resilience approaches where gaps or inefficiencies exist.
Your responsibilities as the Solution Architect - Disaster Recovery & Resilience:
- Conduct detailed analysis of Business Impact Analysis (BIA) outputs to understand application criticality, recovery objectives and service interdependencies.
- Assess existing and proposed disaster recovery and cloud recovery designs, validating suitability against business needs and RTO/RPO requirements.
- Provide architectural challenge to ensure recovery approaches are technically sound, operationally realistic and cost effective.
- Analyse application recovery scenarios, including severe loss scenarios such as total environment wipe.
- Define what "good recovery" looks like across different application and platform contexts.
- Work closely with business, technology and operational stakeholders to:
- Understand application behaviour under failure,
- Validate recovery assumptions,
- Ensure recovery designs align with organisational priorities.
- Support the development of a Minimum Viable Implementation (MVI) recovery capability.
- Contribute to trade-off decisions between cost, complexity, risk and recoverability.
- Strong background in solution architecture across cloud and hybrid environments.
- Demonstrable experience designing disaster recovery and resilience solutions.
- Proven ability to interpret BIA outputs and translate them into technical recovery designs.
- Experience assessing and improving existing recovery approaches.
- Ability to define new recovery patterns where gaps exist.
- Experience producing high-level logical and conceptual architecture views, including dependency and sequencing considerations.
- Strong understanding of RTO/RPO feasibility, constraints, risks and assumptions.
- Experience working with application support, infrastructure and business stakeholders.
- Confident communication skills with the ability to challenge constructively and pragmatically.
- Current SC Clearance (mandatory).
NOTE: At SCC, we take the privacy and security of your information very seriously. Any information we hold will be handled in accordance with current data protection legislation. Upon submitting your application, SCC will process your information in line with our privacy policy, which can be found on our website under Legal Privacy Notice Flexible Resourcing.