Job Description

ASA Recruitment’s client, a Public Sector organisation in Edinburgh are currently looking to recruit a Solutions Architect, for an initial 6 month contract (with potential extensions) on a rate c.£550-£600/day outside of IR35 (based on experience).

Responsibilities:

* Working with business and change stakeholders in shaping, agreeing and delivering solution architectures aligned to wider Design, Innovation and Architecture principles and standards

* Working closely with Digital Labs and Scrum Teams to ensure that detailed designs and delivery work is consistent with the agreed solution architecture

* Providing general technology guidance and advice to business and change stakeholders

* Identifying opportunities to deliver business benefit and user-centric capability through adoption of new technologies and/or new ways of working

* Collaborating with business stakeholders, business architects, other solution architects, product managers and Digital Labs across the organisation and with external organisations and partners

Essential Skills & Experience:

* Technical and solution architecture and design including within programmes, projects or product-centric organisations

* Collaboratively devising technical standards, blueprints, reference architectures, roadmaps, transition states and target solutions across multiple services / organisations

* Interacting and influencing senior stakeholders and a wide range of people across organisations, suppliers, customers, internal departments and teams

* Supporting continuous improvement initiatives by helping to build solution design capability through delivery of solution architecture, standards and mentoring

* Working with Cloud Infrastructure & Security Specific Experience.

* Cloud Platform and Infrastructure

* Cloud Native/Hybrid Cloud architectures

* Cloud platform experience – e.g. – Microsoft Azure

* Solution Integration and Integration Layers

* SAAS package delivery and implementation experience

* IAAS experience

* PAAS experience