Solutions Architect

Sector: Public Sector / Government

Job Title: Solution Architect

Type: Contractor

Location: London or Glasgow (hybrid working)

Duration: 6 months +

Vetting: SC security clearance will be required

Experience required

• Proven stakeholder management skills, able to influence senior leaders and drive technical strategy across large, complex organisations.


• Excellent communication skills, translating complex technical concepts for both technical and non-technical audiences.


• Strong hands-on experience in solution architecture and technical design across programmes, projects and product-based environments.


• Demonstrable experience delivering solutions within Agile and Waterfall methodologies.


• Broad technical knowledge across Microsoft and Linux environments, including physical, virtualised and containerised platforms.


• Expertise in defining architecture strategy, principles, standards, roadmaps, target states and reference architectures.


• Strong cloud architecture experience across Azure, AWS, GCP or Oracle, including security, governance, automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).


• Practical experience designing, deploying and supporting enterprise collaboration solutions, including voice, video and messaging platforms.


• Good understanding of real-time communication technologies such as WebRTC, SIP, RTP/SRTP, encryption, federation, APIs and network performance considerations.


• Strong troubleshooting and infrastructure experience, including conferencing platforms, AV integration, Linux/Windows administration, monitoring, logging and packet analysis.

Our client operates a hybrid working model,