Solution Architect - DNS; Contractor

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As a Solution Architect with a focus on DNS, you'll partner with government, financial services, and private sector clients to design solutions that solve their most complex digital challenges. You'll bring together technical capabilities, user needs, and business objectives through critical thinking that breaks down problems and identifies practical approaches, considering non‑functional requirements from the outset. Working closely with delivery teams, you'll tackle diverse solution challenges across the full lifecycle—from conducting options analysis for major system modernisation programmes and helping clients understand complex problems, through to facilitating design sessions with multidisciplinary teams, creating solutions that balance user needs with business constraints, and presenting your recommendations to architectural review boards and senior stakeholders.

Whether that's evaluating options for a government department's citizen portal, designing integration approaches for a bank's digital transformation, or guiding development teams through implementation decisions, you'll bring both solution design expertise and practical problem‑solving skills to every situation.

• Your background designing and implementing enterprise‑scale digital solutions means you can credibly advise clients on what architectural approaches work in practice, understanding the technical complexities and implications of different options.
• You bring systems thinking that connects architectural decisions across broader service and business contexts, combined with proven experience collaborating with diverse teams including user researchers, product managers, software engineers, and senior business stakeholders.
• Your approach balances strategic architectural thinking with hands‑on implementation experience, taking a user‑centred perspective that considers different viewpoints while meeting technical requirements and supporting business objectives.

• Experience designing and validating solutions for enterprise‑scale challenges, with involvement in successful implementations across multiple domains including cloud platforms, application architecture, data architecture, and system integration.
• Can show evidence of taking responsibility for complex solution design with successful outcomes, whether through traditional career progression or other professional development paths.
• Leading on technical designs based on customer requirements, communicating to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Experience with DNS (cloud‑native services and/or DNS in general, e.g., BIND). Familiarise with the existing implementation of private DNS resolution (mixture of IaaS and PaaS).
• Delivery of Azure technologies and solutions that are highly available, high performing, and secure, according to best practices noted in the Cloud Adoption Framework and Well Architected Framework.
• Working with cloud‑native solutions and services.
• Building CI/CD pipelines.
• Terraform.

• Have designed and delivered enterprise‑scale digital solutions using modern approaches including microservices architectures, APIs, cloud platforms—Azure, and application modernisation strategies.
• Understand how to apply architectural patterns and design principles to real‑world challenges, with sufficient technical depth to make informed decisions about technology choices, Dev Ops practices, and…