Lead Solution Architect

Aker Systems; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology solutions provider in the UK seeks a skilled Solution Architect to support product delivery within cloud environments. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in designing secure cloud solutions and working with distributed systems. Responsibilities include developing high-level designs, supporting option analyses, and collaborating with DevOps teams. They offer a competitive salary, medical insurance, and an annual training allowance among other benefits, in a supportive and diverse environment.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Company paid medical insurance

Life assurance

Pension scheme

Annual training allowance

Wellbeing allowance

Virtual GP

Employee Assistance plan

Qualifications

• UK Government Security Check (SC) clearance preferred.
• 12 months Central Government experience in the last 5 years desired.
• Experience in designing bespoke software solutions, particularly in cloud-native and streaming solutions.

Responsibilities

• Research and develop design solutions.
• Monitor technical deliverables and report on design divergences.
• Support solution option analysis and architectural recommendations.

Skills

Designing distributed systems

Platform and application development

Cloud service design (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Agile development

Security design

Tools

Public Cloud (AWS/Azure/Google)

Job description

Aker Systems was founded in 2017 by a team of experienced technology professionals who recognised an opportunity to provide highly secure enterprise data platforms to large organisations. We build and operate ground‑breaking, ultra‑secure, high‑performance, cloud‑based data infrastructure for the enterprise. Our proprietary technology solutions drive performance and reduce costs while helping our clients to improve the management and sharing of data across their organisations.

In 2024, Aker Systems won the Breakthrough Culture Awards highlighting growth companies putting culture first. In 2020 Aker Systems was recognised as a ‘One to Watch’ on the Sunday Times Tech Track. The Company was also recognised at the Thames Valley Tech Awards 2020; winning the Thames Valley Tech Company of the year, the Emerging Tech Company and High Growth Tech Business categories. We encourage people of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are committed to maintaining an inclusive, and supportive place for you to do your very best work.

Duties & Responsibilities

A UK Government Security Check (SC) clearance is required for this role. If you don’t hold SC clearance, we will support you to apply assuming you have lived and worked in the UK for a minimum of 5 years. Due to project requirements, at least 12 months Central Government experience in the last 5 years is strongly preferred.

Aker Systems deliver secure cloud hosted solutions into the public and private sectors, we are rapidly expanding and are looking to hire a Solution Architect to support our product delivery.

The successful candidate will need to have a good blend of HLD and LLD design experience around Security, Data, Cloud, Service and Solution. You will be seeing designs through from start to finish incorporating everything from technology to solution, assurance, governance, and security (pen testing) – not from a hands‑on perspective but from a design perspective. You will need to be client facing and be able to make complex designs seem simple to customers.

Key Tasks:

• Research and develop high level and detailed solution designs
• Monitor technical deliverables against the designs, manage and report on design divergences
• Contribute to technical Change Requests
• Maintain and monitor solutions against Non-functional requirements, design principles and patterns
• Support solution option analysis and provide architectural recommendations
• Maintain the AsIs design against the build identifying design branches to be included into the core Aker product set
• Capture the technology stack and map to the architecture
• Closely collaborate with and guide the DevOps and application development teams

Core Competencies

• Skilled in designing distributed, event driven systems
• Platform and application development
• Has recently designed services that reside on AWS, Azure, GCP or hybrid environments
• Has the ability to work in and has strong knowledge of agile development and modern CD/CI approaches
• Understands how security design is integrated into the solution design

Will need extensive experience in:

• Delivery – designing, delivering platforms and managed services at enterprise scale, specifically bespoke software solutions, particularly in streaming and cloud-native solutions
• Data – solving enterprise data and analytics problems using technology
• Cloud – hands‑on Public Cloud experience in either AWS/Azure/Google, both their 'services' and 'how' to work in the cloud such as DevOps‑centric approach
• Security – having worked in sensitive data environments

Aker Systems Attributes

At Aker we work as a team; we are collaborative, hardworking, open, and delivery obsessed. There is no blame culture here: try things, and take responsibility for the outcomes. You are always part of the wider Aker. We help our colleagues and take pride in successfully achieving difficult tasks. We run towards problems and help to solve them. Communicate always, do so accurately and in a timely fashion.

In return, we offer a competitive salary, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, company paid medical insurance and life assurance, pension scheme, annual training allowance, wellbeing allowance, virtual GP, Employee Assistance plan and more.

Aker Systems fosters a diverse environment that encourages openness in its communications and is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people regardless of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, veteran status or other personal characteristics. We embrace differences of opinion and diversity because they help challenge us and find new groundbreaking technical solutions.