Solution Architect

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

Job summary

A consulting firm is seeking a Solution Architect for a six-month assignment in East Kilbride. The ideal candidate will ensure architectural coherence while enabling delivery teams to create secure and scalable solutions. Expertise in cloud solutions across major providers is required, along with experience in navigating security policies in classified environments. This position supports hybrid working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Experience with major cloud providers like Azure, AWS, GCP, or Oracle.
• Experience with security policies in sensitive environments.
• Knowledge of software design considerations.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Cloud solution design and implementation

Infrastructure architecture

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

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.

Responsibilities

• Ensure architectural coherence, governance, and alignment with organisational objectives; enable 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