SC NPPV3 Solution Architect CGEMJP00351235

Role Title: Solution Architect

Duration: contract to run until 30/06/2027

Location: Remote (very rare travel asks may emerge - London and Manchester). 98% remote working

Rate: up to £644 p/d Umbrella inside IR35

Clearance required: Active SC and NPPV3 Clearance is required

Role purpose / summary

The Solution Designer will play a key role in a major organisational transformation programme responsible for aligning multiple organisations, business units, and end-user communities to a unified Target Operating Model (TOM). Working across business, technology, service management, and transformation teams, the Solution Designer will develop end-to-end solution designs that enable the successful integration of new organisations onto the client's strategic platforms, services, processes, and governance frameworks. The role will ensure that solutions are practical, scalable, supportable, and aligned with both business objectives and technical architecture standards. The successful candidate will combine strong design and analysis skills with a deep understanding of business transformation, service integration, and enterprise technology environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead on Solution Design for this initiative.
• Develop end-to-end solution designs that support the implementation of the TOM.
• Solution design covering people, process, technology, data, service, and governance.
• Ensure solutions support standardisation, scalability and long-term sustainability.
• Maintain end-to-end traceability between business requirements and solution design.
• Organisational Transformation Support
• Support the onboarding and integration of multiple organisations and user communities onto common platforms and services.
• Analyse current-state operating models, processes, and technology landscapes.
• Identify design impacts, dependencies, risks, and opps associated with org transition.
• Contribute to transition planning and implementation activities.
• Support business readiness and organisational adoption initiatives.
• Business and Technical Analysis
• Collaborate with business analysts, architects, service integration teams, and stakeholders to gather and refine requirements.
• Facilitate workshops to understand operational, business, and technical needs.
• Document functional and non-functional requirements.
• Analyse business processes and identify opps for simplification and harmonisation.
• Ensure solution designs align to business outcomes and transformation objectives.

Platform and Service Integration

• Define how services, platforms, applications, and operational processes integrate within the future-state environment.
• Ensure design consistency across business, tech, and service management domains.
• Support integration of users and services into common support and gov frameworks.
• Work with SI, Infrastructure, Apps and Security teams to give cohesive solution delivery.
• Ensure solutions are designed with operational supportability in mind.

Design Governance and Assurance

• Produce high-quality solution documentation and design artefacts.
• Compliance with enterprise architecture standards, policies, and design principles.
• Support design reviews and assurance activities throughout the programme lifecycle.
• Maintain solution integrity from conception through implementation.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Engage with leaders, operational teams, technical specialists, and prog stakeholders.
• Build effective relationships across transformation workstreams.
• Support decision-making through clear analysis, design options, and recommendations.
• Facilitate alignment between stakeholder expectations and programme objectives.

Risk, Dependency and Impact Management

• Identify design risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
• Assess impacts of design decisions on business ops, users, platforms, and services.
• Support mitigation planning and issue resolution.
• Ensure dependencies between workstreams are clearly understood and managed.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Significant experience in Solution Design, Solution Architecture, Systems Analysis, or Technical Design roles.
• Experience supporting large-scale organisational transformation programmes.
• Proven ability to translate business requirements into practical end-to-end solutions.
• Experience designing solutions that span people, process, technology, and service management domains.
• Strong understanding of business process design and operating model transformation.
• Experience working with multiple stakeholder groups in complex enterprise environments.
• Knowledge of systems integration, platform onboarding, and service adoption activities.
• Ability to balance strategic objectives with practical delivery requirements.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and documentation skills.
• Excellent communication, workshop facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills.

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!

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