Solution Architect

Summer Browning; East Kilbride; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A consulting firm is seeking a Solution Architect for a six-month contract in East Kilbride. The ideal candidate will have SC clearance and expertise in designing cloud solutions. Responsibilities include ensuring architectural coherence and supporting secure, scalable solutions while working with delivery teams. Experience in sensitive environments is essential, as well as knowledge of identity management and cloud platform optimization.

Qualifications

• Active SC clearance required.
• Strong background in delivering Solution Architecture support.
• Experience in architecting solutions in sensitive environments.

Responsibilities

• Ensure architectural coherence and alignment with organizational objectives.
• Enable delivery teams to build secure and sustainable solutions.
• Navigate and optimize deployments for security and cost-effectiveness.

Skills

Cloud solutions design and implementation

Platform-specific feature navigation

Software and infrastructure design knowledge

Architecting secure solutions

Identity and access management

Job description

Overview

Summer-Browning Associates is currently supporting our central government client, who is seeking a Solution Architect for an initial six-month assignment with the option to extend.

Location: Hybrid working - East Kilbride

About the role

You will be responsible for ensuring architectural coherence, governance, and alignment with organisational objectives, while enabling delivery teams to build secure, scalable, and sustainable solutions.

The ideal candidate will hold active SC clearance and have a strong background in delivering Solution Architecture support, with the following skills and experience:

• Experience designing and implementing cloud solutions across major providers (e.g. Azure, AWS, GCP, Oracle)
• Experience of navigating platform-specific features and optimising and automating (IaC) deployments for maximum security, performance, and cost-effectiveness.
• Knowledge of both software and infrastructure design considerations and be comfortable working with engineers.
• Experience architecting and securing solutions within highly sensitive and classified environments, including familiarity with relevant security policies, regulations, and best practices.
• Experience with identity and access management solutions, including privileged access management, and ability to architect secure authentication and authorisation mechanisms. Desirable
• Experience with software-defined networking, storage, and compute solutions, including virtualization technologies and their implementation in government data centres. Desirable