Senior Solutions Architect

Join SSCL Defence as a Senior Solutions Architect!

Are you an experienced Solutions Architect looking for your next challenge? SSCL Defence is seeking skilled individuals to join our esteemed Architectural Management Office (AMO) Team.
As a Senior Solutions Architect with us, you'll be at the forefront of technical leadership, guiding decision-making processes and conceptualising solutions across the entire lifecycle—from design to deployment. Collaborating with a diverse range of stakeholders and workstream leads within our programmes and projects, you'll play a pivotal role in designing and maintaining system architectures while resolving technical issues.
This is a hybrid working opportunity, offering flexibility to be based anywhere in the UK. While remote work is embraced, occasional travel to SSCL sites across the UK may be required.

If you're ready to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment, apply now to join our team at SSCL Defence!

What you'll be doing:

• Assist in the provision of solution architecture, generation of conceptual, logical and physical architecture documents, short time-frame change impact assessments, feasibility studies & costed IT proposals for a project/program
• Contribute to estimation of activities for the planning and risk assessments.
• Understand, identify, manage and co-ordinate the technical activities amongst the technical workstreams - providing input into what the tech activities are, the order they are done along with identifying dependencies - SPOC for all technical issues and its resolution.
• Identifying and resolving impacts of changes to the technical architecture
• Be a point of reference for the project on all Technical Architecture matters.
• Reporting and escalating as appropriate to the project manager on progress against plan, conflicts, and technical issues resolution

What you’ll bring:

• Previous Solution/Technical Architect experience
• Experience of cloud hosting and implementation in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• Experience in Network design and implementation
• CI/CD design and deployment experience
• Experience of Firewall and WAF design and implementation
• Experience in Active Directory, Identity Management / Privileged Access Management design and implementation
• Exposure to business critical, high availability design and deployment
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to write clear documentation
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to all stakeholders

It would be great if you had:

• Cloud hosting providers include Azure
• Understanding of IAAS, PAAS and SAAS services and integration
• MOD design and deployment
• Terraform and Ansible experience
• OIC technical experience
• API management and design
• Protective and system monitoring experience
• Awareness of Cyber Security requirements for Infrastructure solutions
• SC Clearance

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: UK Anywhere with occasional travel to SSCL Centres of Excellence
Security Clearance Level: SC - Active or Eligible
Internal Recruiter: Carolyne
Salary: £80,000.00
Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?
SSCL is the market leader in critical business support services for the UK public sector. Operating at size and scale since 2013, SSCL has delivered over £750 million of savings - providing more funds for front line public services. We transform services using digital solutions and innovative technology, developing platforms that enable flexibility to meet the changing needs of our Government, Defence and Police clients.
We employ around 3,000 people who sit at the heart of our business strategy. Their passion and connection to our values and our purpose is what sets us apart and puts SSCL in the Top 20 of GPTW large workplaces. 'Living SSCL’ means we deliver social value within our services and work with our clients and community partners to support programmes such as education and employability initiatives across the UK.