Solutions Architect

Solutions Architect

Are you ready for your next career challenge? Role overview:
Shape a secure, integrated and deliverable technology solution for ESCS. The Solution Architect works across customer needs, business outcomes, enterprise constraints and delivery capabilities to create a coherent solution architecture, roadmaps and evidence for investment and implementation. The role you will play:
Translate complex mission and business needs into a clear end-to-end solution architecture. Connect reusable Leidos capabilities, COTS products, cloud services, integration and data approaches into an achievable solution. Provide architecture leadership from early shaping and estimation through delivery assurance and transition.

• Lead discovery and architecture definition across business, application, data, integration, technology and security viewpoints.
• Develop solution options, trade studies, architecture decisions, roadmaps and transition states.
• Define non-functional requirements and assure security, resilience, performance, scalability, interoperability and supportability.
• Create high-level designs and guide decomposition into engineering work packages and low-level designs.
• Support estimates and investment cases with architectural assumptions, risks, dependencies and resource needs.
• Assess reuse opportunities, legacy constraints, supplier propositions and build-versus-buy choices.
• Engage customer, programme, security, commercial, supplier and engineering stakeholders to resolve design decisions.
• Maintain traceability between customer outcomes, requirements, architecture, delivery and acceptance.
• Provide technical assurance during implementation and support controlled transition into service.

• End-to-end solution architecture
• Enterprise architecture methods and viewpoint modelling
• Secure cloud architecture on Azure and/or AWS
• Application, integration, API and event-driven architecture
• Data architecture, analytics and information governance awareness
• Identity, access, Zero Trust and security-by-design principles
• Non-functional requirements and architectural assurance
• COTS, SaaS and legacy integration
• Option analysis, trade studies, roadmaps and transition planning
• Bid support, estimation and senior stakeholder communication

• Solution architecture leadership on complex, multi-domain technology change.
• Experience engaging customers to shape ambiguous needs into feasible solution options.
• Experience developing architecture artefacts that can be used for estimation, engineering and assurance.
• Experience balancing mission outcome, security, delivery risk, cost, schedule and maintainability.

• National security, defence or wider public-sector environments.
• Cross-domain integration, secure data platforms or mission systems.
• TOGAF, BCS, AWS, Azure or equivalent architecture accreditation.
• Product, IRAD, pre-sales or competitive bid shaping.

• Architecture is coherent, secure, traceable and implementable.
• Assumptions, trade-offs and residual risks are transparent to decision-makers.
• Delivery teams receive sufficient guidance without unnecessary prescription.
• Reusable capabilities and patterns are identified and applied appropriately.
• Architecture remains aligned from early shaping through acceptance and service transition.

SC required to start SC required for the role

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)
• Flexible Working Scheme

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits…