Solution Architect - DNS

Solution Architect - DNS

Version 1, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom.

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 including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, Out Systems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers receive the highest quality solutions and services.

We are an award‑winning employer with a culture that puts employees at the heart of Version 1. We have been recognized as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK for over 10 years, Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland, and Best Workplace for Wellbeing by GPTW.

As a Solution Architect focused on DNS, you will partner with government, financial services, and private sector clients to design solutions that solve 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, considering non‑functional requirements from the outset.

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

Examples of work include 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. Your role combines solution design expertise with practical problem‑solving skills.

As part of our central architecture team, you will collaborate with experienced Technology Principals and other Solution Architects, providing a support network for learning and tackling complex challenges together. Continuous learning is pivotal; you will stay current with industry trends, modern practices, and emerging technologies.

• Experience designing and validating enterprise‑scale solutions across cloud platforms, application architecture, data architecture, and system integration.
• Evidence of responsibility for complex solution design with successful outcomes, demonstrated through career progression or professional development.
• Leading technical designs based on customer requirements, communicating to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Experience with DNS (cloud‑native services, BIND) and private DNS resolution in IaaS/PaaS environments.
• Delivery of Azure technologies and solutions that are highly available, high performing, and secure according to Cloud Adoption Framework and Well‑Architected Framework.
• Experience with cloud‑native solutions, CI/CD pipelines, and Terraform.

• Designed and delivered enterprise‑scale digital solutions using microservices, APIs, cloud platforms such as Azure, and application modernisation strategies.
• Applied architectural patterns and design principles to real‑world challenges, making informed technology choices, Dev Ops practices, and monitoring decisions in agile teams.

• Worked directly with clients and senior stakeholders to understand complex problems, facilitate discussions, and build consensus around solution approaches.
• Translating business requirements into solution designs and communicating complex concepts to technical and non‑technical audiences.

• Delivered solutions for government departments, major financial institutions, or large private sector organisations, understanding governance, security, integration challenges and multi‑supplier contexts.
• Hands‑on software development background informing solution design approach, digital standards, Azure cloud architectures, or GenAI/AI solution integration.
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