Solution Architect

Summer Browning Associates; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A consulting agency is seeking a Solution Architect for a hybrid role based in East Kilbride. This position involves ensuring architectural coherence and governance while enabling teams to deliver secure and scalable solutions. The ideal candidate will have active SC clearance and a strong background in cloud solutions and security policies.

Qualifications

• Active SC clearance is required.
• Strong background in delivering Solution Architecture support.

Responsibilities

• Ensure architectural coherence and governance.
• Align with organisational objectives for delivery teams.
• Architect secure, scalable, and sustainable solutions.

Skills

Cloud solutions design (Azure, AWS, GCP, Oracle)

Infrastructure and software design

Security policies and best practices

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)