Solution Architect

Summer Browning Associates; East Kilbride; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A consulting firm is seeking a Solution Architect in East Kilbride for an initial six-month assignment with hybrid working. The ideal candidate will ensure architectural coherence and governance while enabling teams to build secure, scalable solutions. Must have active SC clearance and experience in designing cloud solutions and security mechanisms.

Qualifications

• Active SC clearance is required.
• Strong background in delivering Solution Architecture support.
• Experience with identities and access management and security mechanisms is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Ensure architectural coherence and governance aligned with organizational objectives.
• Enable delivery teams to build secure, scalable, and sustainable solutions.

Skills

Cloud solutions design and implementation

Platform-specific features optimization

Software and infrastructure design

Identity and access management

Software-defined networking

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

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.

Responsibilities

• Responsibilities are described in the overview and role statements above.

Qualifications and Experience

• Active SC clearance and 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 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)