Solutions Architect

Synechron; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 111,000 - 166,000; Part time

Job summary

Synechron seeks an experienced end-to-end solution architect responsible for governance and compliance across compute, networking, security, and resilience, largely on-prem with AWS hosted and some Azure. The role blends governance documentation and ARB/ITT/PTO governance processes with practical hands-on design, including IAC, CI/CD, and Kubernetes migrations.

You will own governance docs, drive architectural decisions, and work closely with SecArch, Risk & Compliance, and infra/vendor teams to

Qualifications

• Prove hands-on ownership of end-to-end solution design.
• Proven experience owning EKS/Kubernetes migrations end-to-end.
• Authored governance documents, not just reviewed them.
• Experience making architecture decisions with trade-offs and ownership.

Responsibilities

• Author governance documentation (SDD, ADD, ASA, HLD) and drive designs through ARB/governance.
• Hands-on IAC, CI/CD, Terraform and pipelines; participate in implementation.
• Own end-to-end Kubernetes/EKS migration design from on-prem to cloud.
• Design IAM/IDM solutions and perform security reviews (Okta/SailPoint/Entra).
• Collaborate across architecture, risk/compliance, and infra teams daily.
• Be a strong team player in a multi-stakeholder environment.

Skills

Hands-on architecture

Kubernetes

Governance documentation

End-to-end design

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD

IAC

Okta/SailPoint/Entra

Job description

Synechron is looking for an end-to-end solution architecture (compute, networking, security, resilience) for applications, largely On-Prem , AWS-hosted, some Azure.

The role is weighted roughly 80% architecture governance & compliance — authoring SDD/ADD/ASA governance documentation, driving designs through the ARB/ITT/PTO/GOVID process, and coordinating across SecArch, Risk & Compliance, and infra/vendor stakeholders and 20% technical expertise.

Role:

• Author governance documentation - SDD, ADD, ASA, HLD - and take designs through our internal ARB/governance process
• Hands-on knowledge of IAC , CI/CD, Terraform, pipelines personally, not just review/approve others' work.
• Kubernetes/EKS migration design, including ownership of on-prem to cloud migrations end-to-end
• IAM/IDM design and security reviews (Okta/SailPoint/Entra-type tooling)
• Work closely across architecture, risk/compliance, and infra teams daily, so collaboration style matters as much as technical depth
• Strong team player in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment

Must-haves:

• Can PROVE hands-on experience, owning end-to-end solution design not - designed it and a team built it
• Has personally owned an EKS/Kubernetes migration end-to-end (not just coached/advised one)
• Has AUTHORED governance docs, not just reviewed/signed off on them
• Specific experience and examples of architecture decisions, trade-offs, ownership

Nice-to-have: index/benchmark/market-data platform experience, data migration experience (DMS, Sybase/Mongo to Aurora-type work).

This is a long term rolling contract - x3 days as week in London office - Strong market rates inside IR35

Diversity Statement

Synechron are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We offer flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programmes to support our global workforce. Empowerment and collaboration are at the core of how we operate.

All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.