Solution Architect

Solution Architect

Location: Mostly remote, 2x a month in Telford
Day Rate: £580/day, Inside IR35
Clearance: SC cleared
Duration: 6 months
Sector: Public

A major public sector digital transformation programme is looking for a Solution Architect to design application products that meet user needs and align with organisational strategy and standards.

You'll act as a solution communication champion - making the complex simple - while supporting delivery teams by blending technical architecture skills with strong leadership and communication.

Responsibilities:

• Design and represent architecture solutions, delivering the technical and architecture elements of projects
• Build relationships and work collaboratively with other digital professionals
• Create solution options and recommendations during discovery and inception
• Make technology choice proposals for products
• Produce high-level solution architecture documentation and design artefacts for governance
• Ensure design compliance with the organisation's approved architecture blueprint and roadmaps
• Engage with Domain and Lead Architects to implement approved designs
• Advocate for solutions that reduce architecture complexity and technical debt
• Maintain and contribute to product roadmaps and the architecture blueprint
• Identify, capture and iterate architecture patterns
• Contribute to and build capability in the Architecture community of practice

Skills:

• Significant architecture experience
• Government/public sector client experience
• AWS/Azure solution experience and relevant certification (good to have)

Note: This role requires additional vetting due to the clearance level, which may extend the standard onboarding timeline.