Solution Architect (Collaboration Technology) - East Kilbride (Hybrid) - £800+ - DV Cleared

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end architecture for secure voice, video, conferencing and chat services
• Work at implementation level with engineers - reviewing configuration, APIs, logs and packet captures
• Reproduce faults, validate fixes, and use prototypes/PoCs to test design decisions
• Design and assure integrations across identity, authentication, certificates, encryption and network boundaries
• Apply standards such as WebRTC, SIP and RTP/SRTP, including federation and interoperability
• Lead room-based collaboration design - conferencing appliances, codecs, cameras, DSP and control interfaces
• Provide architectural leadership across multiple programmes and complex domains
• Lead governance frameworks, reusable templates and reference architectures
• Mentor solution architects and act as final escalation point for architectural decisions

Ideal Candidate

• Strong practical experience designing, deploying or supporting enterprise voice, video and chat solutions (not purely conceptual architecture)
• Representative mix of Jitsi Meet, Rocket.Chat, Matrix, Element, Pexip or comparable platforms
• Good understanding of WebRTC, SIP, RTP/SRTP, media traversal, federation and encryption
• Experience integrating room-based AV hardware with conferencing services
• Confidence using Linux or Windows admin tools, command-line utilities, logs and packet analysis
• Proven stakeholder management and ability to influence senior technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong understanding of a broad range of Microsoft and Linux-based technologies across physical, virtual and containerised compute
• Experience designing and implementing cloud solutions across major providers (Azure, AWS, GCP)

Desirable Experience

• Detailed experience of Pexip Infinity or comparable conferencing infrastructure
• Building, hardening and operating self-hosted Jitsi Meet, Rocket.Chat, Matrix or Element in restricted environments
• Room acoustics, DSP, echo cancellation and control integration
• On-premise classified environment architecture and Zero Trust principles

TL;DR

Job Title: Solution Architect (Collaboration Technology)

Contract Length: 6 months

Location: East Kilbride (Hybrid, ~3 days/week onsite)

Rate: £800+ per day

IR35 Status: Inside IR35

Start Date: ASAP

Clearance: DV