Hybrid Solution Architect | National Security - eSC/eDV Required

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Own solution architecture from discovery through delivery and produce architecture artefacts, including designs, HLDs, option assessments, and decision records.
• Present proposals through Design Authority and governance forums.
• Translate business, functional, and non-functional requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Define architectures for applications, integrations, cloud services, data flows, and infrastructure.
• Work with engineering teams to deliver designs, support modernisation, and define integration patterns and API strategies.
• Provide technical leadership, issue resolution, risk management, and architecture assurance during delivery.
• Support governance, peer reviews, technical quality, estimation, planning, roadmaps, and mentoring.

Required expertise

• Solution Architect experience in complex enterprise, consulting, or transformation environments.
• Understanding of architecture governance, Design Authority processes, and solution architecture methodologies.
• Experience producing Solution Designs, HLDs, option assessments, and architecture decision records.
• Stakeholder engagement across business, technical, and delivery teams; experience with Jira, Confluence, and UML modelling tools.
• Understanding of modern application architectures, software delivery, Java 17 or 21, XML and JSON schemas, REST APIs, integration patterns, and relational databases.
• Experience with cloud-hosted and hybrid solutions; AWS is ideal, with understanding of EC2, EKS, and S3.
• Experience designing with messaging technologies such as RabbitMQ or IBM MQ.
• Experience supporting projects from requirements and design through implementation and production deployment.

Preferred education and experience

• A bachelor's degree is listed as preferred education.
• Preferred experience includes hybrid cloud or cloud transformation, microservices, cloud-native design, Docker, Kubernetes, DevSecOps, and CI/CD.
• Further preferred experience includes secure or regulated environments, TOGAF, RFI/RFP work, Agile, Scrum or SAFe, observability, governance forums, and enterprise change initiatives.
• Active UK Enhanced Security Clearance is listed as preferred.

Workplace and screening

• The source title identifies the role as hybrid; the description also refers to flexible working approaches.
• Pre-employment screening follows the UK Government Baseline Personnel Security Standard; additional National Security Vetting may apply, including eligibility for SC or DV.

Benefits

• Benefits include flexible working approaches, sabbatical programmes, paid parental leave, 25 days of holiday plus public holidays, private medical, dental and optical cover, shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance, and a group pension plan.