Senior Security-Cleared Solutions Architect – Defence Tech

Synergize Consulting; West of England; On-site; GBP 117,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

Synergize Consulting is seeking a Security Cleared Senior Solutions Architect in Bristol to own solution architecture across large defence and technology programmes. You will shape strategic technology direction, design secure, integrated solutions and influence key architectural decisions across multiple domains.

You will lead architecture reviews, engage with senior stakeholders, and support bids and proposals to win business while promoting best practices and model-based engineering.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as Senior Solutions Architect or similar.
• Designing secure, integrated solutions across multiple domains.
• Knowledge of architecture frameworks (TOGAF/ArchiMate/NAF).
• Experience delivering projects in Agile/SAFe environments.
• Ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical authority for solution architecture across major programmes.
• Define and evolve end-to-end architectures across infrastructure, applications, data, networking and cloud.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise principles and secure-by-design standards.
• Contribute to technology roadmaps and innovation opportunities.
• Lead architectural reviews, trade-off studies and risk assessments.

Skills

Solution architecture

Security architecture

Enterprise architecture

Cloud architecture

TOGAF/NAF/ArchiMate

Stakeholder engagement

Architecture reviews

Tools

TOGAF

AWS

Azure

Job description

Synergize Consulting is seeking a Security Cleared Senior Solutions Architect in Bristol to own solution architecture across large defence and technology programmes. You will shape strategic technology direction, design secure, integrated solutions and influence key architectural decisions across multiple domains.

You will lead architecture reviews, engage with senior stakeholders, and support bids and proposals to win business while promoting best practices and model-based engineering.