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Solution Architect

Harvey NashEdinburgh, Scotland🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 13 Sept 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

As a Solution Architect, you'll have the opportunity to shape practical, reusable solutions for local government and health services, developing your skills in delivery leadership and technical advisory within a collaborative team. This hybrid contract role offers an excellent chance to make a tangible impact and is ideal for a proactive individual eager to translate complex needs into actionable technical designs. Apply now to leverage your expertise in this impactful, hands-on engagement.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Temporary/Casual
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Posted
4 days ago
ScrumAgileAzure

Job Description

Solution Architect | 12 Month Contract | (Outside IR35) | Hybrid Edinburgh| Starting ASAP

Day Rate: £DOE

About the role:

  • Working with business and change stakeholders in shaping, agreeing and delivering solution architectures aligned to wider Design, Innovation and Architecture principles and standards
  • Working closely with Digital Labs and Scrum Teams to ensure that detailed designs and delivery work is consistent with the agreed solution architecture
  • Providing general technology guidance and advice to business and change stakeholders
  • Identifying opportunities to deliver business benefit and user-centric capability through adoption of new technologies and/or new ways of working
  • Collaborating with business stakeholders, business architects, other solution architects, product managers and Digital Labs across the organisation and with external organisations and partners

We would like you to have the following experience:

  • Technical and solution architecture and design including within programmes, projects or product-centric organisations
  • Collaboratively devising technical standards, blueprints, reference architectures, roadmaps, transition states and target solutions across multiple services / organisations
  • Interacting and influencing senior stakeholders and a wide range of people across organisations, suppliers, customers, internal departments and teams
  • Supporting continuous improvement initiatives by helping to build solution design capability through delivery of solution architecture, standards and mentoring

We would like you to be:

  • Delivery focussed
  • Comfortable managing multiple priorities
  • Familiar with working in a fast paced gated agile environment
  • Able to grasp the existing 'as is' business and solution landscape

Ideally, you will have had exposure to:

  • CRM design/architecture/engineering preferably using D365 or Low code solutions*
  • Working with Cloud Infrastructure & Security Specific Experience.
  • AI solution design/architecture/engineering
  • Cloud Platform and Infrastructure
  • Cloud Native/Hybrid Cloud architectures
  • Cloud platform experience - e.g. - Microsoft Azure
  • Solution Integration and Integration Layers *
  • SAAS package delivery and implementation experience
  • IAAS experience
  • PAAS experience

This role has been deemed Outside IR35 by the client. Applicants must hold, or be happy to apply for, a valid Basic Disclosure Scotland. Please click the link to apply.


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