Senior Defence Solutions Architect

Sopra Steria Ltd; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

25 days holiday

AXA medical insurance

6% pension contribution

Life assurance 4x salary

Job summary

Sopra Steria Ltd is recruiting an experienced Solution Architect to own the end-to-end architecture for complex Defence and National Security programmes. You’ll collaborate with customers, delivery teams and technology specialists to shape, design and lead secure solutions across business, application, data, infrastructure, security and service domains.

Flexibility on location is offered, with regular travel to customer and Sopra Steria sites across the M3/M4 corridor.

Qualifications

• Experience designing end-to-end solutions for highly regulated environments (Defence, national security).
• Ability to translate business requirements into secure technical architectures.
• Strong communication to technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end solution architecture for complex Defence/National Security programmes.
• Define architecture and high-level designs meeting functional and non-functional requirements.
• Lead architectural guidance across delivery, security, data, infrastructure and services.
• Provide technical leadership with engineering, cyber security, data and service specialists.
• Support bids, pre-sales and growth opportunities with compelling architectures.
• Review solutions for risks, dependencies and alignment with standards and secure-by-design practices.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Security architecture

Stakeholder engagement

TOGAF/Archimate/C4

Agile/DevSecOps

Tools

COTS & legacy integration

Job description

Sopra Steria Ltd is recruiting an experienced Solution Architect to own the end-to-end architecture for complex Defence and National Security programmes. You’ll collaborate with customers, delivery teams and technology specialists to shape, design and lead secure solutions across business, application, data, infrastructure, security and service domains.

Flexibility on location is offered, with regular travel to customer and Sopra Steria sites across the M3/M4 corridor.