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

Job Details

Company
Vallum Associates
Location
South Yorkshire, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Hybrid / Remote Options
Employment Type
Contract
Salary
£575 - £600/day
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