Solutions Architect (Contract, Outside IR35)

Consult; City of Edinburgh; Hybride; GBP 111 000 - 166 000; Temps partiel

Résumé du poste

hedgehog lab, a digital product consultancy in the UK, is seeking an experienced solutions architect to design scalable systems for client projects. You’ll shape the technical approach, guide engineering teams, and communicate complex ideas clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

This remote-first contract role starts within a week and runs for three months, with potential on-site workshops and key meetings as needed.

Qualifications

• Experience designing systems on commercial projects (solutions architect or similar).
• Experience designing production cloud architecture, ideally on AWS.
• Directly collaborating with clients to define what gets built.
• Ability to explain technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsabilités

• Design systems and cloud architecture for client projects.
• Shape the technical approach with clients and delivery teams.
• Guide engineering teams on implementing the designed solutions.

Connaissances

Systems design

Cloud architecture AWS

Client collaboration

Technical communication

Outils

AWS

Description du poste

Design How It's Built, And Help Clients Get There

You'll design the systems behind our client projects and be the technical voice in the room when clients are working out what they need.

What's In It For You

You’ll work with clients from the early conversations, alongside delivery and product.

You’ll work alongside engineers who build with AI agents every day.

Who You'll Be Doing It For

hedgehog lab is a digital product consultancy with 20 years behind us. We build apps, websites and AI platforms for public and private sector clients in health tech, retail and financial services.

Our project teams are 5 to 15 people, made up of agentic engineers, software engineers, QA and designers.

We’re around 100 people across the UK and Europe, about a quarter of them contractors.

What You'll Be Doing

Most of your time:

• Designing systems and cloud architecture for client projects
• Working with clients to understand what they need and shaping the technical approach
• Guiding engineering teams on how to build what you’ve designed

Some Of Your Time, Depending On Your Strengths

• Building proofs of concept to test ideas early
• Reviewing technical decisions on live projects, including security
• Helping estimate new work

Experience You'll Need

You’ll need all of this to be considered:

• You’ve designed systems on commercial projects, as a solutions architect or under another job title
• You’ve designed cloud architecture for systems running in production, ideally on AWS
• You’ve worked directly with clients to agree what gets built
• You can explain technical decisions to people who aren’t technical, such as client stakeholders and product owners

Experience That Would Help, But Isn't Essential

• You’ve written production code in TypeScript, Python or Node
• You’ve run technical reviews across more than one team
• You’ve worked on a large replatforming or data migration
• You’ve worked in a consultancy or agency
• You’ve been involved in pre- and post-sales work, such as scoping new projects and supporting delivery once they’re signed
• You’ve built with AI agents

Contract details

Outside IR35.

Start within a week, for three months.

Remote first, with potentially some time on client sites for workshops and key meetings on an ad-hoc basis.