Solution Designer
The Role: Solution Designer
Location: Sheffield, UK
Position Type: Contract Inside IR35
Remote work option Available: 2-3 Days Onsite in a week
Job Description:
In this role, you will:
- Produce High Level Designs (HLDs) and Low Level Designs (LLDs) for identity capabilities.
- Define end-to-end Technical Solutions across business, application, data and infrastructure domains.
- Translate business, security and regulatory requirements into technical solutions.
- Develop reference architectures, patterns and design standards for the programme.
- Define integration patterns between identity platforms, applications and infrastructure.
- Design cloud-native solutions for GCP and Kubernetes environments.
- Define authentication, authorisation and federation architectures.
- Design Agent Identity, Human Identity and Workload Identity capabilities.
- Define Zero Trust security architecture and trust boundaries.
- Design API security, service-to-service authentication and workload authentication patterns.
- Develop event-driven integration architectures using messaging and asynchronous processing.
- Design Policy Decision Point (PDP) and Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) architectures using Policy-as-Code.
- Define secrets management, certificate lifecycle and PKI integration patterns.
- Design resilience, disaster recovery and high availability architectures.
- Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements for security, scalability, resilience and performance.
- Produce architecture decision records (ADRs) and design documentation.
- Identify technical risks, assumptions, constraints and dependencies.
- Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to ensure alignment with strategic architecture.
Key Skills & Experience
Essential Skills
- Enterprise Architecture
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Authentication and Authorisation
- Zero Trust Architecture
- Agent Identity and Workload Identity
- Identity Federation (OIDC, OAuth2, SAML, SCIM)
- Cloud Architecture (GCP)
- Kubernetes and Service Mesh
- API Architecture and Security
- DevSecOps and CI/CD