Senior Solution Architect - Hybrid London (SC Cleared)

Arm; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 108,000 - 141,000; Part time

Job summary

Arm is seeking an experienced Solution Architect to join a central architecture function in London. This 6-month contract (Inside IR35) is hybrid, requiring 2-3 days on site and current SC clearance.

You will design and deliver architectures across digital products for policing, integrating cloud, data, and security considerations, working with engineering teams to ensure deployable solutions and governance.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering architecture for large government or security-sensitive digital services.
• Strong knowledge of APIs, microservices and cloud-native patterns.
• Ability to translate requirements into practical architecture options.
• Experience with AWS and infrastructure as code.
• Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop, review and maintain solution and application architectures across digital products and services.
• Produce architecture artefacts including application, integration, data and infrastructure views.
• Review technical proposals and provide recommendations to support delivery decisions.
• Work with engineering teams to ensure architecture is implementable and aligned with modern practices.
• Provide architecture input throughout the product lifecycle from discovery to operation.
• Design solutions deployed within AWS including compute, networking, storage, security and resilience.
• Collaborate on DevOps and CI/CD approaches to enable automated build, test and deployment.

Skills

Solution architecture

Cloud AWS

DevOps

Stakeholder engagement

Security

Terraform

Job description

Arm is seeking an experienced Solution Architect to join a central architecture function in London. This 6-month contract (Inside IR35) is hybrid, requiring 2-3 days on site and current SC clearance.

You will design and deliver architectures across digital products for policing, integrating cloud, data, and security considerations, working with engineering teams to ensure deployable solutions and governance.