Solutions Architect
Posted 4 days ago by Head Resourcing Ltd
£700 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Summary: Solution Architect needed for a 6-month engagement with a Financial Services client in Edinburgh. Candidates must have extensive experience in IT Solution Architecture, particularly in large-scale transformations within corporate environments. The role requires expertise in design and architecture across various technologies, including Cloud and Cyber Security, and involves hybrid working with 2 days per week onsite. The focus will be on supporting large-scale separation and integration projects.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and support the delivery of large-scale IT transformations.
- Engage with stakeholders to elicit requirements and create solution designs.
- Produce architecture artifacts and manage architecture governance processes.
- Analyze application portfolios, including interface and dependency mapping.
- Work collaboratively within a hybrid model, attending the office 2 days a week.
Key Skills:
- Proven experience in Solution/Enterprise Architecture within corporate environments.
- Experience in IT-related divestitures or separations.
- Experience managing large-scale transformation projects, ideally in Financial Services.
- Strong architecture design experience for application and infrastructure separation.
- Ability to produce architecture artifacts and designs.
- Experience with architecture governance and programme-level architecture review processes.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and requirement elicitation skills.
- Excellent communication skills.
Salary (Rate): £700 per day
City: Edinburgh
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
Solution Architect needed for an initial 6-month engagement with our Financial Services client based in Edinburgh. Our client has four roles, and the right candidates must have extensive demonstrable experience as an IT Solution Architect working on large-scale Transformations within corporate environments, ideally Financial Services. The role requires Design & Architecture expertise across a range of technologies, ideally including Cloud (AWS/Azure), M365, Virtualisation, Networks, IAM and Cyber Security.
The role requires candidates to engage via an FCSA accredited Umbrella company. The role is hybrid and candidates must be able to work 2-days per week onsite in Edinburgh.
The focus will be on designing and supporting the delivery of a large-scale separation followed by other projects including Data Centre builds, Business Application Migrations and a large-scale integration. Candidates must be able to demonstrate experience working on large-scale IT transformations including stakeholder engagement, eliciting requirements, creating solution designs, architecture artifacts etc.
Key Skills & Experience required:
- Proven experience in Solution/Enterprise Architecture and design within corporate environments.
- Experience in IT related divestitures or separations.
- Experience managing/supporting large-scale transformation projects (ideally within Financial Services environments).
- Strong experience in Architecture design for application and infrastructure separation and transition-state operations.
- Experience in producing Architecture artifacts, designs, patterns etc.
- Architecture governance - experience of programme level architecture review processes.
- Stakeholder engagement & requirement elicitation skills.
- Application portfolio analysis, including interface and dependency mapping.
- Strong communication skills
Technology areas include AWS, Azure, M365, HPE Greenlake, Virtualization, DBs, Monitoring etc., Networks/Firewalls, IAM (Active Directory, SailPoint), Security and Security tooling, Desktop services (Intune, Citrix, AVD Windows 11), ServiceNow, Jira/Confluence.
If this sounds like a strong fit and you are available to work in Edinburgh 2-days per week, please Apply Immediately!
Head Resourcing is committed to being an inclusive business where diversity is valued and celebrated. Diversity to us, includes but is not limited to educational background, socio-economic background, neurodiversity, age, marriage and civil partnership status, veteran status, gender, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief, race, and ethnicity. As such we welcome enquiries and applications from everyone. We will be happy discuss with you any workplace adjustments you need in order to be at your best during the recruitment process.
