Solution Architect

Solution Architect - Circa £650 per day inside ir35 - 6 months - Remote with occasional travel

My client is a global leading IT consultancy. They are on the hunt for a Solution Architect to work as part of a central architecture function supporting the design and delivery of a portfolio of digital products and services that support Policing.

This is a hands-on architecture role requiring someone who is comfortable working across a variety of products and technology areas, moving between application architecture, solution design, integration, cloud infrastructure and engineering considerations.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Strong experience working as a Solution Architect within complex digital delivery environments associated to national policing systems.
• Good application architecture and solution design experience, ideally across multiple products or services rather than a single technology stack.
• Experience designing modern applications and services using approaches such as APIs, microservices, event-driven integration and cloud-native patterns.
• Good understanding of the relationship between application architecture, infrastructure and software engineering.
• Experience working directly with software engineers, technical leads, DevOps engineers and delivery teams.
• Ability to translate requirements and problems into clear architecture options and practical solution designs.
• Experience defining and working with non-functional requirements.
• Understanding of security, resilience, scalability, availability, observability and operational considerations within solution design.
• Ability to work with incomplete or evolving requirements and provide sufficient architectural direction without unnecessarily constraining engineering teams.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Ability to work across several products or technical problems concurrently and prioritise architecture effort according to delivery need.

Highly Desirable

• Strong practical knowledge of AWS architecture and infrastructure design.
• Experience designing cloud-native solutions using AWS services.
• Good understanding of DevOps, CI/CD and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience of Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform.
• Understanding of containerisation and orchestration technologies.
• Experience with automated testing, deployment pipelines and environment management.
• Experience of integration architecture, API management and event-driven architectures.
• Experience working with architecture modelling tools and maintaining architecture repositories.
• Knowledge of architecture frameworks, patterns and technology standards.

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