Solution Architect - Public Sector Consulting

Location: London or Birmingham, United Kingdom - Hybrid

Department: Technical Consulting

Reports To: Head of Technical Consulting

Job Summary: We are looking for an experienced Lead Solution Architect to join our expanding team delivering high-impact digital and data transformation for UK central government clients. We are seeking a hands-on solutions leader with a passion for solving complex challenges in government. You will have a proven track record of shaping large-scale solutions across cloud platforms, legacy estates, and service integration layers—ideally within a consultancy, systems integrator, or public sector delivery environment. You will be confident working across both business and technology domains, comfortable influencing senior stakeholders, and experienced in aligning solution architecture with user needs, operational constraints, and public sector standards. You will bring both broad technical understanding and a pragmatic mindset, helping clients achieve meaningful change at pace.

What you’ll be doing:

• Working with clients and colleagues to develop strategies, solutions, high-level designs, and driving effective delivery of complex solutions in the public sector.
• Engaging with senior client stakeholders to understand business problems and translate them into composable, scalable solution architectures that are secure, compliant, and future-ready.
• Working closely with multi-disciplinary teams to shape delivery models that meet client and user needs.
• Contributing to governance and assurance, ensuring architectural coherence across delivery workstreams, and adherence to government standards (e.g. GDS, NCSC, Cabinet Office, MOD).
• Collaborating with our Government CTO and wider leadership team to shape IP, frameworks, and go-to-market offerings.
• Coaching and mentoring other architects and support the development of architecture capability within the business.

What you will bring:

• Significant experience designing and delivering complex digital and data solutions in the UK Central Government and wider Public Sector.
• Extensive experience in a solution architecture or enterprise architecture role, within government or regulated industries.
• Deep knowledge of enterprise architecture patterns, public cloud services (Azure, AWS), application design, integration patterns (API, event-driven), & data platforms.
• Demonstrable success in shaping client strategies, designing operating models, and engaging in business case development and benefit modelling.
• Experience of bid and pre-sales involvement, including shaping client proposals, contributing to SOWs, and presenting to commercial and technical stakeholders.
• A sound understanding of government standards and frameworks, including the Digital Service Standard, GDS assessment criteria, NCSC cloud security principles, and relevant assurance models.
• Experience working in agile delivery environments and collaborating across business and technology domains.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to articulate and advocate for strategic solutions at executive level.
• You will be a strong influencer, having the ability to build good working relationships with delivery partners at all levels within the organisation.
• You must be a great visual storyteller, able to bring solutions to life to help our customers understand and embrace the value of change & technology.
• Experience in managed services or operational environments (such as defining service architectures) would also be advantageous.

Education and Experience:

• Track record in delivery of complex technology implementation within public sector.
• Technical leadership experience, preferably in roles within a consulting or systems integration sitting across a portfolio of projects and programmes.
• Sales or pre-sales experience, covering a range of deal types and sizes across consulting, systems-integration and managed services.
• A track record of building effective teams, recognising people’s strengths and weaknesses and establishing the right environment for growth.
• Excellent knowledge of the entire software development lifecycle and in delivery of software products.
• Experience with agile development methods & tooling e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile Framework, GDS Service Standard, Jira & Confluence.
• CPD demonstrating understanding of architectural concepts, across application, cloud infrastructure, data, and integration for example certifications such as TOGAF, SAFe, or cloud architect qualifications (Azure/AWS).
• Degree in a technology-related discipline or equivalent practical experience.

We’re a business with a global reach that empowers local teams, and we undertake hugely exciting work that is genuinely changing the world. Our advanced portfolio of consulting, applications, business process, cloud, and infrastructure services will allow you to achieve great things by working with brilliant colleagues, and clients, on exciting projects. Our inclusive work environment prioritises mutual respect, accountability, and continuous learning for all our people. This approach fosters collaboration, well-being, growth, and agility, leading to a more diverse, innovative, and competitive organisation.

We are also proud to share that we have a range of Inclusion Networks such as: the Women’s Business Network, Cultural and Ethnicity Network, LGBTQ+ & Allies Network, Neurodiversity Network and the Parent Network.

We offer a range of tailored benefits that support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. Our Learning and Development team ensure that there are continuous growth and development opportunities for our people. We also offer the opportunity to have flexible work options.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We believe in the fair treatment of all our employees and commit to promoting equity and diversity in our employment practices. We are also a proud Disability Confident Committed Employer - we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. We actively collaborate with individuals who have disabilities and long-term health conditions which have an effect on their ability to do normal daily activities, ensuring that barriers are eliminated when it comes to employment opportunities. In line with our commitment, we guarantee an interview to applicants who declare to us, during the application process, that they have a disability and meet the minimum requirements for the role. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know. Join us in building a truly diverse and empowered team.