Solutions Architect

Our Public Sector client are looking for a Senior Enterprise Architect during a period of significant change. This role will help shape how their technology evolved over the next 5-7 years and contribute to the design of future solutions. This role is Inside IR35, a duration of 6 months, and will require 2x days onsite at their office in Greater Glasgow.

Working in a small architecture team, you will collaborate with stakeholders, suppliers and delivery teams to design solutions that support business objectives and operational requirements.

• Turn business requirements into practical and supportable technology solutions
• Design end-to-end solutions across cloud, on-premises infrastructure, applications and integration's
• Product clear High-level design documentation and service designs
• Work closely with stakeholders, suppliers and deliver teams to support the implementation and operation of solutions
• Contribute to architectural standards and technology direction
• Develop service design documentation defining how solutions will be supported, maintained and operated.

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect or Solution Designer within complex environments
• Experience designing solutions across Azure (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) and on-premises infrastructure.
• Ability to translate future-state business requirements into solution designs
• Strong experience producing HLDs, service design documentation and architecture decision records
• Ability to engage with an influence both technical and non technical stakeholders
• Understanding of operational support, service management and live environments
• Experience working within regulated, highly viible or mission critical organisations
• Understanding of Dev Ops and CI/CD principles
• Knowledge of integration technologies (e.g. APIs, ESBs, message queues)
• Experience designing or integrating with enterprise applications (e.g. ERP, CRM, EAM, CMS)
• Strong knowledge of service management principles (ITIL) and experience contributing to service design and operational readiness.
• Demonstrable experience designing solutions that span infrastructure (cloud/on-prem), applications and integration layers.