Solution Architect – Multi Cloud – Sc / Dv Cleared
Posted 2 weeks ago by 1750751002
£600 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Bristol
Summary: The Solution Architect role requires a highly skilled professional to lead the design and delivery of architectural solutions for complex portfolios, working closely with C-level leaders and senior stakeholders. The position involves a comprehensive range of enterprise architecture activities, focusing on agile and sustainable architectures that facilitate large-scale transformation. The architect will serve as a trusted advisor, addressing challenges such as cloud optimization and legacy integration. This role demands a blend of strategic insight and technical expertise to guide clients effectively.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and delivery of enterprise and solution architectures across large-scale portfolios, addressing complex business and technology challenges.
- Shape pragmatic architectural strategies, operational models and governance structures that resonate at board level and drive value across the enterprise.
- Implement and evolve architecture frameworks and methodologies (e.g., TOGAF, ArchiMate, MODAF, SAFe), blending these with client context to deliver practical outcomes.
- Deliver architectural assessments, technology roadmaps, transition architectures and legacy integration plans to support digital and cloud transformation.
- Champion sustainability, technical debt remediation, and innovation within legacy environments.
- Engage and align with stakeholders across business, data, application, infrastructure and security domains to ensure end-to-end coherence and buy-in.
- Mentor architecture teams and uplift enterprise architecture maturity across client organisations.
- Articulate architectural trade-offs and commercial implications, including CapEx/OpEx (TOTEX) and sustainability KPIs.
- Contribute thought leadership in areas such as platform strategy, hybrid cloud, IoT, AI/ML, HPC, and agile architecture delivery.
Key Skills:
- Proven hands-on leadership in defining and embedding IT strategies and enterprise architecture within complex organisations.
- Track record of resolving enterprise-level architectural challenges across structural, behavioural, data, and commercial dimensions.
- Experience leading stakeholder engagements and navigating competing priorities to find viable architectural pathways.
- Expertise in cloud strategy and delivery (AWS, Azure, GCP), with strong knowledge of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and modern cloud-native patterns (e.g., microservices, FaaS).
- Familiarity with major architecture frameworks and modelling tools (e.g., ArchiMate, TOGAF, Bizzdesign).
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, capable of engaging C-suite stakeholders and technical teams alike.
- Experience in building service catalogues and enabling digital transformation through holistic architecture alignment.
Salary (Rate): £600 daily
City: Bristol
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Solution Architect – SC / DV Cleared
Inside IR35: 550 – 600 p/d
Hybrid: 1-2 a week onsite
We are seeking a highly skilled and forward-thinking Solution Architect / Enterprise to lead the definition, design, and delivery of architectural solutions across complex, high-impact portfolios. Working with C-level leaders and senior stakeholders, you will play a pivotal role in shaping agile, sustainable, and future-ready architectures that enable transformation at scale.
This role spans the full breadth of enterprise architecture activities—from lightweight governance and operational modelling to transition planning and embedding next-gen technologies. You will act as a trusted advisor across domains, combining strategic acumen with technical delivery, guiding clients through challenges including cloud optimisation, legacy integration, and enterprise agility.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of enterprise and solution architectures across large-scale portfolios, addressing complex business and technology challenges.
- Shape pragmatic architectural strategies, operational models and governance structures that resonate at board level and drive value across the enterprise.
- Implement and evolve architecture frameworks and methodologies (e.g., TOGAF, ArchiMate, MODAF, SAFe), blending these with client context to deliver practical outcomes.
- Deliver architectural assessments, technology roadmaps, transition architectures and legacy integration plans to support digital and cloud transformation.
- Champion sustainability, technical debt remediation, and innovation within legacy environments.
- Engage and align with stakeholders across business, data, application, infrastructure and security domains to ensure end-to-end coherence and buy-in.
- Mentor architecture teams and uplift enterprise architecture maturity across client organisations.
- Articulate architectural trade-offs and commercial implications, including CapEx/OpEx (TOTEX) and sustainability KPIs.
- Contribute thought leadership in areas such as platform strategy, hybrid cloud, IoT, AI/ML, HPC, and agile architecture delivery.
Essential Skills and Experience
- Proven hands-on leadership in defining and embedding IT strategies and enterprise architecture within complex organisations.
- Track record of resolving enterprise-level architectural challenges across structural, behavioural, data, and commercial dimensions.
- Experience leading stakeholder engagements and navigating competing priorities to find viable architectural pathways.
- Expertise in cloud strategy and delivery (AWS, Azure, GCP), with strong knowledge of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and modern cloud-native patterns (e.g., microservices, FaaS).
- Familiarity with major architecture frameworks and modelling tools (e.g., ArchiMate, TOGAF, Bizzdesign).
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, capable of engaging C-suite stakeholders and technical teams alike.
- Experience in building service catalogues and enabling digital transformation through holistic architecture alignment.