Solutions Architect — Cloud & Legacy Modernisation

Scrumconnect Consulting; Neath; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Scrumconnect Consulting in the United Kingdom is seeking a Solutions Architect to shape and deliver change for a major government client. You will bridge legacy core systems with modern cloud services, guiding design from concept to delivery and collaborating with delivery squads to implement robust, scalable solutions.

You will move quickly, asking sharp questions early, balancing architectural governance with pragmatic delivery and security considerations across complex estates.

Qualifications

• Proven experience architecting applications and subsystems from initial concept through to live delivery.
• Ability to demonstrate end‑to‑end architectures with key decisions documented.
• Ability to assess change quickly and determine feasibility with pace.
• Experience integrating legacy estates with cloud-native services.
• Broad AWS experience and knowledge of integration patterns such as APIs, event‑driven and messaging approaches.
• Use ADRs and trade‑off analysis within reference architectures, standards and reusable patterns.
• Understanding of information security, data protection and threat modelling.
• Strong communication with technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Experience delivering digital services in UK central government or regulated environments.
• Degree in computer science, engineering or related technical subject, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Grasp change requests quickly by engaging business, product and technical stakeholders.
• Run rapid feasibility assessments with options, risks and rough effort estimates.
• Architect applications and subsystems from concept to delivery with engineering squads.
• Design integration and migration approaches between legacy core systems and cloud services.
• Produce design briefs and record decisions to guide squads.
• Act as a technical contact for a product area alongside the lead engineer.
• Take designs through architecture governance and design authority.
• Support roadmaps and discovery, harvest reusable patterns, mentor juniors.

Skills

Solutions architecture

AWS experience

Legacy integration

ADR decisions

Stakeholder communication

Security fundamentals

Agile delivery

Design governance

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

ADR tooling

Job description

Scrumconnect Consulting in the United Kingdom is seeking a Solutions Architect to shape and deliver change for a major government client. You will bridge legacy core systems with modern cloud services, guiding design from concept to delivery and collaborating with delivery squads to implement robust, scalable solutions.

You will move quickly, asking sharp questions early, balancing architectural governance with pragmatic delivery and security considerations across complex estates.