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Solution Architect x2 – 15366

Salary: £Please provide competitive rate

Location: Wiltshire - 4 days on site per week

Contracting Authority: Government Client
Contract Length: 01/10/2026 – 31/03/2028 (A total of 318days based on this start date. 108days until 31/03/2027 and 210days from 01/04/2027 – 31/03/2028)
Clearance: SC/DV

Essential Skills, Qualifications, and Experience
• At least 5 years demonstrable experience in Solution Architecture roles delivering complex infrastructure, networking, interoperability, or secure information systems within the last 5 years.
• Demonstrable experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale technical solutions from concept through implementation and transition.
• Strong experience producing and maintaining High-Level Designs (HLDs), Low-Level Designs (LLDs), architectural decision records, and supporting technical documentation.
• Detailed understanding of enterprise and solution architecture principles and frameworks.
• Experience designing secure solutions within Defence, Government or other regulated environments.
• Strong understanding of interoperability architectures, federation concepts, and coalition information-sharing requirements.
• Experience developing architectures that support information exchange across multiple security domains.
• Knowledge of Data Centric Security principles, policy-based information control, metadata-based handling controls, and auditability requirements.
• Experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM), Federated Identity and Access Management (FIAM), and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) models.
• Strong understanding of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), digital certificates, certificate trust chains, and associated cryptographic principles.
• Experience conducting architecture assessments, technical risk assessments, and technology evaluations.
• Experience working with engineering teams through design, build, integration, testing, and operational handover phases.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to communicate effectively at both technical and senior leadership levels.
• Experience delivering against challenging timescales within large and complex organisations.
• Competency in MS Office Suite.

Our dedicated team would be pleased to discuss in more detail how we may be able to help