Senior or Principal Solutions Architect (Secure Systems)

ZipRecruiter; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading technology company as a Principal Solution Architect, focusing on delivering complex solutions in high-assurance environments. You will oversee teams, ensure design excellence, and build strong client relationships while enjoying flexible work arrangements and a competitive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Significant experience (5+ years) in complex IT requirements.
• Strong understanding of high-assurance system design.
• Skills in deployment or configuration of IT components.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams and drive coherent solutions.
• Develop vision and roadmap based on client needs.
• Provide specialist advice in security technologies.

Skills

IT Security

Technical Leadership

Architecture Design

Client Relationship Management

Job description

Job Description

Principal Solution Architect (Secure Systems Team)

Location: Hybrid; with regular travel expected to client site or Logiq’s offices in Bristol, Chippenham.

Salary: Competitive, plus car allowance, plus up to 10% performance bonus*, plus excellent benefits package.

Logiq is a fast-growing Technology Company, providing cutting-edge solutions to high-risk clients across Private and Public Sector. Due to rapid growth in our Architecture Capability, we are looking for experienced Solution or Technical Architecture Consultants to join our team.

What is Architecture?

Logiq’s Architecture Practice brings together highly experienced technologists and IT professionals with a passion for delivering complex solutions that drive tangible uplifts in capability for clients and their users. We specialise in Enterprise and Solution Architecture, Systems Engineering, Service Management and DevOps, to build highly effective teams tailored to the problem-space and requirements.

As part of the Secure Systems Team, you’ll have the opportunity to:

• Develop solutions for complex and unique operating environments
• Adapt leading edge technology solutions for novel and challenging use cases
• Build effective multi-discipline teams capable of delivering to the highest assurance levels

We thrive on the collaborative success of highly skilled engineering teams that deliver impactful change, supporting our clients to make a difference and achieve their mission.

Why Join Us?

• Work on impactful projects that unlock value from the latest technology and innovation.
• Join a practice of enthusiastic IT professionals, always willing to learn, share and collaborate
• Access professional development pathways tailored to your career ambitions.
• Enjoy flexible working arrangements and a competitive benefits package.

What the team say:

“Working at Logiq has been an amazing move for myself. Not only is it a great overall business which has offered a huge amount of varied and interesting work, but it is a workplace where I have been able to nip out here and there to do the school run, picking up the hours either at lunch or before/after work, has taken a huge level of stress off myself and my partner’s life” …

“Logiq has great people and great projects. I get to be part of an amazing team that’s generating real benefit for our clients… enabling access to world-leading, missing-winning capability, all whilst learning from some of the brightest people around.”

The Role:

As a Principal Solution Architect, you will lead teams of specialists, take a leading technical role in complex projects, and offer deep specialist advice to clients. This role is ideal for experts that thrive on a varied and challenging technology landscape, with a particular passion for high-assurance solutions, and cyber security functions. The successful candidate will understand the challenges of delivering solutions that require modern, scalable on-premise components, secure boundary solutions and limited connectivity.

Key responsibilities include:

• Technical Leadership, driving coherent, compliant solutions in a multi-discipline team, complementing Logiq’s other capabilities.
• Vision and Roadmap development, translating client needs into tangible, realistic and deliverable technology programmes.
• Design Excellence, leading and assuring the creation of solution architecture, high level and low level design artefacts in collaboration with engineering experts.
• Specialist Advice, providing product agnostic knowledge, deep technical subject matter expertise in critical technologies such as , Monitoring, Patching, Health and Performance, and Network Security.
• Client Relationship, building trusted and respected reputations with clients as a reliable and knowledgeable technical expert, offering credible and actionable recommendations and supporting other delivery functions to ensure the client achieves their vision.

Our principal solution architect role will provide you with the opportunity to grow your technical expertise and broaden your experience in delivery of transformative, complex, and impactful projects.

What we’re looking for:

Essential:

• Significant experience (5+ years) designing or delivering complex IT requirements or technology programmes.
• Championing the delivery ‘journey’ through technical roadmaps and architecture artefacts that generate credible and beneficial change.
• Strong understanding of IT security and design considerations of high-assurance systems.
• Practical skills deploying or configuring relevant IT components or enterprise IT solutions across all stages of an engineering lifecycle.
• Track record developing and assuring significant architecture and design artefacts and technical documentation as part of a delivery or transformation.
• Understanding of the requirements lifecycle and the need to manage trade-offs and incremental delivery.
• Knowledge of hosting technologies (virtualisation, containerisation, orchestration), with experience of industry leading products and vendors.

Desirable:

• Experience delivering into MOD, relevant governance and security policy, processes, and practices (inc Joint Service Publications 604, 440).
• Knowledge of and international security frameworks such as NIST SP 800 Series.
• Experience managing agile teams, DevOps engineering teams and CI/CD.
• Practical experience managing requirements, verification, validation and acceptance.
• Certifications in relevant technologies, products, methodologies or frameworks.

Other Information:

Flexible working is available including part-time / term time working patterns. All suggestions are welcomed to be discussed as part of a proposed employment package. We are an equal-opportunities employer.

Logiq is a Confident Employee

Logiq is proudly supportive of those who have served through the Armed Forces Covenant commitment.

*Bonus payments are discretionary and awarded upon successful completion of probation.