Solutions Architect

your Jared; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory Pension Scheme

Private Medical Insurance

33 days Annual Leave (including public

Flexible benefits (life assurance, gym

Flexible Working Scheme

Job summary

Leidos UK & EUROPE seeks a Solutions Architect to shape secure, integrated technology solutions across customer outcomes, enterprise constraints and delivery capabilities. You will translate complex mission needs into end-to-end architectures, connect reusable capabilities and COTS products, and provide architecture leadership from shaping through delivery.

Lead stakeholders across security, commercial and engineering, maintain traceability, assess options, and guide transition into service with

Qualifications

• Experience leading end-to-end architecture across multiple domains.
• Ability to translate business needs into architecture artefacts.
• Experience with cloud security and governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and architecture definition across viewpoints.
• Develop options, roadmaps and transition states.
• Define non-functional requirements and assure security and performance.
• Create high-level designs and guide decomposition into work packages.
• Support estimates and investment cases with risks and resources.
• Engage stakeholders to resolve design decisions.
• Maintain traceability from outcomes to delivery.

Skills

End-to-end solution architecture

Enterprise architecture methods

Secure cloud architecture (Azure/AWS)

Application & API architecture

Data architecture & governance

Identity & Zero Trust security

Non-functional requirements

COTS & SaaS integration

Trade studies & roadmaps

Bid support & stakeholder comms

Job description

Solutions Architect

Are you ready for your next career challenge? Role overview: Shape a secure, integrated and deliverable technology solution for ESCS. The Solution Architect works across customer needs, business outcomes, enterprise constraints and delivery capabilities to create a coherent solution architecture, roadmaps and evidence for investment and implementation. The role you will play: Translate complex mission and business needs into a clear end-to-end solution architecture. Connect reusable Leidos capabilities, COTS products, cloud services, integration and data approaches into an achievable solution. Provide architecture leadership from early shaping and estimation through delivery assurance and transition.

Primary responsibilities

• Lead discovery and architecture definition across business, application, data, integration, technology and security viewpoints.
• Develop solution options, trade studies, architecture decisions, roadmaps and transition states.
• Define non-functional requirements and assure security, resilience, performance, scalability, interoperability and supportability.
• Create high-level designs and guide decomposition into engineering work packages and low-level designs.
• Support estimates and investment cases with architectural assumptions, risks, dependencies and resource needs.
• Assess reuse opportunities, legacy constraints, supplier propositions and build-versus-buy choices.
• Engage customer, programme, security, commercial, supplier and engineering stakeholders to resolve design decisions.
• Maintain traceability between customer outcomes, requirements, architecture, delivery and acceptance.
• Provide technical assurance during implementation and support controlled transition into service.

Required skills and capabilities

• End-to-end solution architecture
• Enterprise architecture methods and viewpoint modelling
• Secure cloud architecture on Azure and/or AWS
• Application, integration, API and event-driven architecture
• Data architecture, analytics and information governance awareness
• Identity, access, Zero Trust and security-by-design principles
• Non-functional requirements and architectural assurance
• COTS, SaaS and legacy integration
• Option analysis, trade studies, roadmaps and transition planning
• Bid support, estimation and senior stakeholder communication

Required experience

• Solution architecture leadership on complex, multi-domain technology change.
• Experience engaging customers to shape ambiguous needs into feasible solution options.
• Experience developing architecture artefacts that can be used for estimation, engineering and assurance.
• Experience balancing mission outcome, security, delivery risk, cost, schedule and maintainability.

Desired experience

• National security, defence or wider public-sector environments.
• Cross-domain integration, secure data platforms or mission systems.
• TOGAF, BCS, AWS, Azure or equivalent architecture accreditation.
• Product, IRAD, pre-sales or competitive bid shaping.

Success in the role

• Architecture is coherent, secure, traceable and implementable.
• Assumptions, trade-offs and residual risks are transparent to decision-makers.
• Delivery teams receive sufficient guidance without unnecessary prescription.
• Reusable capabilities and patterns are identified and applied appropriately.
• Architecture remains aligned from early shaping through acceptance and service transition.

Clearance Requirements

SC required to start SC required for the role

What we do for you

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)
• Flexible Working Scheme

Commitment to Diversity

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are

Leidos UK & EUROPE – we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science. Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

What Makes Us Different

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change. Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours. People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing . We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future. If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Pay Range

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.