Solution Architect

Summer-Browning Associates; Scotland; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A consulting firm is seeking a Solution Architect for a six-month hybrid role based in East Kilbride. The focus is on ensuring architectural coherence and governance while enabling teams to build secure and scalable solutions. Candidates should have experience with cloud solutions and securing sensitive environments. This position is ideal for individuals experienced in navigating complex security policies and optimizing deployments.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing cloud solutions across major providers.
• Familiarity with security policies, regulations, and best practices.
• Knowledge of identity and access management solutions.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Cloud solutions design

Platform-specific optimization

Software and infrastructure design

Security policies and regulations

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

Responsibilities

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.

Qualifications 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