Solutions Architect in Glasgow

Location: Glasgow (hybrid working - 3 days)

Duration: 12 months

Vetting: SC / DV security clearance will be required

The Solution Architect plays a strategic leadership role in shaping and assuring the technical architecture across large programmes and critical business areas. This role is pivotal in ensuring architectural coherence, governance, and alignment with organisational objectives, while enabling delivery teams to build secure, scalable, and sustainable solutions.

• High-Level Design Creation & Review
• Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to lead and influence stakeholders across multiple disciplines, crafting and advocating for long-term technical vision aligned with business strategy. This includes experience of interacting with, and influencing, senior stakeholders and a wide range of people across large teams, departments, suppliers, and customers.
• Communicating & Influencing: Exceptional communication skills, adept at translating complex technical concepts for both technical and non-technical audiences. Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and build strong relationships with vendors.
• Delivery: Practical hands-on experience in technical and solution architecture and design including within programmes, projects, or a product-centric organisation, across agile and waterfall methodologies.
• Making Effective Decisions: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a demonstrated ability to identify and address technical challenges. Passionate about exploring and implementing innovative solutions to meet evolving government needs.
• Technology Expertise: Good understanding of a broad range of industry-standard technologies, both proprietary and open source, across a diverse range of Microsoft and Linux-based deployments, across physical, virtual, and containerised compute.
• Software & Infrastructure Expertise: Good understanding of both software and infrastructure design considerations and comfortable working with engineers to understand and guide the datacentre environment that applications are deployed into.
• Architecture Leadership: Deep experience in working in an architecture function and leading the development of the vision, principles, and strategy for architects for a set of products, projects, and technologies. Practised in creating technical standards, blueprints, reference architectures, roadmaps, transition states and target solutions across multiple services.
• Google Cloud Expertise: Experience designing and implementing Google cloud solutions. Expertise in navigating Google Cloud Platform-specific features and optimising and automating (IaC) deployments for maximum security, performance, and cost-effectiveness. Strong understanding of Google cloud governance models and compliance frameworks relevant to government environments.
• On-Premise Classified Environments: Extensive experience architecting and securing solutions within highly sensitive and classified environments, including familiarity with relevant security policies, regulations, and best practices.
• Zero Trust: Deep understanding of zero trust principles and their application in designing secure architectures, including experience with identity-based access control, micro-segmentation, and data encryption.
• Secure by Design: Proven track record of incorporating security considerations into all phases of the solution design lifecycle, ensuring compliance with relevant security standards and regulations.
• Identity & Access Management: In-depth experience with identity and access management solutions, including privileged access management, and ability to architect secure authentication and authorisation mechanisms.
• Software Defined Data Centres: Experience with software-defined networking, storage, and compute solutions, including virtualization technologies and their implementation in government data centres.