Solution architect

High Blantyre, Scotland G72, United Kingdom

Full-time Permanent Senior

Posted 20 Oct 2026

Solution Architect

Location:Hamilton International Technology Park

Reports to: Lead Architect

About Data Vita

Data Vita is a next-generation cloud and infrastructure company operating from Tier III-certified data centres in Scotland. We work at the bleeding edge of AI adoption, automation, and how these technologies can be integrated into complex legacy environments to deliver genuine transformation.

Data Vita is the fastest growing technology company in Scotland, with plans to deploy and invest over £2 billion in the coming years. You would be joining at a relatively early stage of that trajectory. For the right person, this is a chance to build something from the ground up inside a business that is scaling fast.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Solution Architect to join our architecture function and lead the design of complex managed infrastructure and cloud solutions.

This is a customer-facing role that sits between presales, onboarding, and delivery. You will own solution design from early customer engagement through to delivery handover, making sure every solution is technically robust, commercially viable, and aligned with Data Vita's platforms. You will take ownership of engagements from an early stage and drive design forward with customers, Sales, the Lead Architect, delivery, and operations.

This is a permanent, full-time position based on-site at our Hamilton office, three days a week as a minimum, with occasional travel to customer sites and Data Vita data centres.

What You’ll Be Doing

Designing Customer Solutions

• Leading customer design and onboarding workshops
• Gathering and refining technical and business requirements, and translating them into clear architectural solutions
• Producing high-quality High-Level Designs (HLDs), Low-Level Designs (LLDs), and project artefacts that are practical, supportable, and buildable
• Ensuring designs align with Data Vita service offerings and standards

This is not a pure presales role, but you will be involved early in the customer lifecycle:

• Supporting Sales colleagues in technical discussions with customers
• Shaping solutions that meet customer needs within commercial and service constraints
• Contributing to proposals, solution descriptions, and technical responses, making sure what we propose can be delivered and supported

Owning Design Through Handover

You will act as the design authority as work moves into delivery:

• Clearly documenting assumptions, dependencies, and constraints
• Working with delivery teams so designs are understood and buildable
• Providing clarification and guidance during implementation

Working Across the Platform Portfolio

Your designs may span several service areas, and you will work with the Lead Architect to keep them aligned with evolving platform standards:

• Compute platforms (shared, dedicated, and private)
• Storage services (file, block, and object)
• Networking and connectivity services
• Backup, archive, and disaster recovery
• Security controls and managed security services

What We’re Looking For

Experience

• Significant experience designing infrastructure and cloud solutions in a Managed Service Provider (MSP) or Cloud Services Provider (CSP) environment
• Broad technical experience across compute, storage, networking, backup, and disaster recovery
• Experience owning end-to-end solution design rather than isolated components
• Strong awareness of operational and Day-2 considerations, and a pragmatic approach to balancing technical quality, commercial reality, and operational constraints
• A self-starter, comfortable progressing work independently without detailed instruction
• Comfortable using AI-assisted tools to support design and documentation,…