Solution Architect

SBA are currently supporting our Central Government client, who are seeking a Solution Architect on an initial 12 month contract located in East Kilbride (Hybrid)

Stakeholder Management: You will have proven ability to lead and influence stakeholders across multiple disciplines, crafting and advocating for long-term technical vision aligned with business strategy.

Communicating & Influencing: You will have exceptional communication skills, adept at translating complex technical concepts for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Delivery: You will have practical hands-on experience in technical and solution architecture and Making Effective Decisions:

Technology Expertise: You will have a good understanding of a broad range of industry-standard technologies, both proprietary and open source, across a diverse range of Microsoft and Linux-based deployments,

Software & Infrastructure Expertise: You will have a good understanding of both software and infrastructure design considerations and be comfortable working with engineers to understand and guide the datacentre environment that applications are deployed into.

Architecture Leadership: You will have deep experience in working in an architecture function and leading the development of the vision, principles, and strategy for architects for a set of products, projects, and technologies.

Cloud Expertise: Experience designing and implementing AWS/azure solutions. Optimising and automating (IaC) deployments for maximum security, performance, and cost-effectiveness. Exposure/knowledge to GCP

Secure environments: The ideal candidate will have a recent background working for an IT Services/Consulting company within an Official/Secret/Top secret environment. (Tier 2/3)

Location: Successful applicant MUST be willing to work up to 2/3 days in East Kilbride (non-negotiable as this aligns with the rest of the existing team)

NB: successful applicant must be willing to undertake/be eligible for both SC/DV level vetting