Solution Architect in Edinburgh

Company Description
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, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.
We’re An Award‑winning Employer Reflecting How Our Employees Are At The Very Heart Of Version 1 And What We Do
UK & Ireland\’s premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business
10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK
Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW
Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW
Job Description
As a Solution Architect, you\’ll partner with government, financial services, and private sector clients to design solutions that solve their most complex digital challenges. You\’ll 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.
Working closely with delivery teams, you\’ll tackle diverse solution challenges across the full lifecycle – from conducting options analysis for major system modernisation programmes and helping clients understand complex problems, through 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. Whether that\’s evaluating options for a government department\’s citizen portal, designing integration approaches for a