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Solutions Architect
Solution Architect - Public Sector / Government
Sector: Public Sector / Government Location: Glasgow (hybrid working - 3 days on-site) Clearance Required: SC Security Clearance Type: Contract Duration: 12 months
The Solution Architect will play a strategic leadership role in shaping and ensuring coherence across technical architecture for large government programmes and critical business areas. This is a pivotal role focused on technical governance, alignment with organisational objectives and delivering secure, scalable, and sustainable solutions to support government operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide architectural oversight and leadership across multiple projects and business areas
- Create and critically review high-level architectural designs aligned with business strategy
- Maintain and evolve business-as-usual architecture activities
- Ensure cloud-based solutions are designed, implemented, and optimised effectively across Google Cloud Platform
- Promote secure-by-design principles across entire solution lifecycle
- Enable delivery teams with technical standards, blueprints, and reference architectures
- Support decision-making around complex technical trade-offs
- Collaborate with vendors to ensure solution implementation cohesion
ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS
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Stakeholder Leadership:
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams (including suppliers and customers)
- Experience shaping long-term technical vision aligned to business strategy
- Strong interaction experience with large organisational units
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Communication & Influence:
- Proven ability to translate complex technical concepts for both technical and business audiences
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and vendors in large programme contexts
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Deliverable Experience:
- Hands-on solution architecture design across agile and waterfall methodologies
- Technical leadership in programmes, projects, or product development contexts
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Technical Expertise:
- Analytical problem-solving skills with focus on identifying and resolving critical technical challenges
- Broad familiarity with Microsoft and Linux-based technologies across physical, virtual and containerised environments
- Data centre environment understanding with ability to guide infrastructure design decisions
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Architecture Leadership:
- Deep experience developing architectural vision, guidelines, and standards
- Ability to create technical roadmaps and define state evolution strategies
- Experience in implementing security frameworks, compliance models, and architectural best practices
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- Google Cloud Platform Specialisation:
- Strong expertise in Google Cloud solutions including its advanced features
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) automation for deployments
- Deep understanding of Google Cloud governance models and government compliance frameworks
DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS
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Experience in on-premise classified environments, including government security policies and sensitive data handling
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Zero Trust Architectures:
- Strong understanding of organisation-wide zero trust implementation
- Familiarity with identity-based access control, micro-segmentation, and data encryption
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Secure-by-Design Best Practices:
- Track record of embedding security considerations throughout entire solution lifecycle
- Experience with relevant government and commercial security standards
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Identity & Access Management:
- Expertise in privileged access and secure multi-factor authentication
- Design experience with sophisticated authentication/authorisation systems
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Software-Defined Data Centre Knowledge:
- Strong background in virtualisation and cloud-native computing
- Experience with government-context data centre optimisation
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