Solution Designer

Vallum Associates; South Yorkshire; Hybrid; GBP 101,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Vallum Associates seeks a Solution Designer to craft end-to-end identity architectures and reference designs. You will produce HLDs/LLDs for identity capabilities, translate complex security and regulatory requirements into robust cloud-native solutions, and define integration patterns across platforms.

The role requires expertise in IAM, Zero Trust, federation and cloud architecture (GCP), with a strong focus on secure APIs, service-to-service auth, and resilience patterns within an

Qualifications

• Experience in designing IAM and zero-trust architectures.
• Proven ability to translate business and security requirements into technical designs.
• Hands-on with cloud-native design in GCP, Kubernetes and API security.

Responsibilities

• Produce High/Low Level Designs (HLD/LLD) for identity capabilities.
• Define end-to-end technical solutions across business, data, application and infra.
• Translate requirements into technical solutions and ADRs.
• Develop reference architectures, patterns and design standards for the programme.
• Define integration patterns between identity platforms and infrastructure.
• Design cloud-native solutions for GCP and Kubernetes environments.
• Define authentication, authorisation and federation architectures.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Identity and Access Management

Authentication and Authorisation

Zero Trust Architecture

Agent Identity

Workload Identity

Identity Federation

Cloud Architecture (GCP)

Kubernetes

API Architecture and Security

DevSecOps and CI/CD

Job description

The Role: Solution Designer

Location: Sheffield, UK

Position Type: Contract Inside IR35

Remote work option Available: 2-3 Days Onsite in a week

Job Description

In this role, you will:

• Produce High Level Designs (HLDs) and Low Level Designs (LLDs) for identity capabilities.
• Define end-to-end Technical Solutions across business, application, data and infrastructure domains.
• Translate business, security and regulatory requirements into technical solutions.
• Develop reference architectures, patterns and design standards for the programme.
• Define integration patterns between identity platforms, applications and infrastructure.
• Design cloud-native solutions for GCP and Kubernetes environments.
• Define authentication, authorisation and federation architectures.
• Design Agent Identity, Human Identity and Workload Identity capabilities.
• Define Zero Trust security architecture and trust boundaries.
• Design API security, service-to-service authentication and workload authentication patterns.
• Develop event-driven integration architectures using messaging and asynchronous processing.
• Design Policy Decision Point (PDP) and Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) architectures using Policy-as-Code.
• Define secrets management, certificate lifecycle and PKI integration patterns.
• Design resilience, disaster recovery and high availability architectures.
• Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements for security, scalability, resilience and performance.
• Produce architecture decision records (ADRs) and design documentation.
• Identify technical risks, assumptions, constraints and dependencies.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to ensure alignment with strategic architecture.

Key Skills & Experience

Essential Skills

• Enterprise Architecture
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Authentication and Authorisation
• Zero Trust Architecture
• Agent Identity and Workload Identity
• Identity Federation (OIDC, OAuth2, SAML, SCIM)
• Cloud Architecture (GCP)
• Kubernetes and Service Mesh
• API Architecture and Security
• DevSecOps and CI/CD