Solution Architect - DNS

Solution Architect – DNS

Version 1 has celebrated over 28 years in Technology Services and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver solutions that drive customer success. Our expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly changing Digital‑First world we live in. We foster strong partnerships with leading technology giants such as Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red‑Hat, Out Systems and Snowflake, ensuring that our customers receive the highest quality solutions and services.

• UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
• 3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business
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We’re an award‑winning employer that places our employees at the very heart of Version 1 and drives what we do.

As a Solution Architect with a focus on DNS, you will partner with government, financial services and private sector clients to design solutions that solve their most complex digital challenges. You will bring together technical capabilities, user needs and business objectives through critical thinking that breaks down problems and identifies practical approaches, taking non‑functional requirements into account from the outset.

You will work closely with delivery teams to tackle diverse solution challenges across the full lifecycle – from conducting options analysis for major system modernisation programmes, helping clients understand complex problems, to facilitating design sessions with multi‑disciplinary teams, creating solutions that balance user needs with business constraints, and presenting your recommendations to architectural review boards and senior stakeholders.

• Your background designing and implementing enterprise‑scale digital solutions allows you to credibly advise clients on architectural approaches that work in practice.
• You bring systems thinking that connects architectural decisions across broader service and business contexts, and have 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.

As part of our central architecture team, you will work alongside experienced Technology Principals and other Solution Architects, receiving a strong support network to collaborate, learn from different perspectives and tackle problems together.

We recognise that architecture is as much about continuous learning as applying existing knowledge, so you will bring proven experience while staying current with industry trends, modern practices and emerging technologies.

• Experience designing and validating solutions for enterprise‑scale challenges, with successful implementations across cloud platforms, application architecture, data architecture and system integration.
• Evidence of responsibility for complex solution design with successful outcomes 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) and familiarity with private DNS resolution (mix of IaaS and PaaS).
• Delivery of Azure technologies and solutions that are highly available, high performing and secure, following best practices in the Cloud Adoption Framework and Well‑Architected Framework.
• Experience with cloud‑native solutions and services; building CI/CD pipelines;
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• Designed and delivered enterprise‑scale digital solutions using modern architectures including microservices, APIs, Azure and application modernisation strategies.
• Applied architectural patterns and design principles to real‑world challenges, with sufficient…