Solutions Architect

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Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Solutions Architect for an initial 12 month contract with option to extend on a rate of £600/day (Outside IR35). This role will be based in Edinburgh, however, attendance at the project site will only be required on an as-needed basis


Responsibilities:


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

- 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 across the organisation and with external organisations and partners


Essential Skills:


- 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

- Delivery focussed

- Comfortable managing multiple priorities

- Familiar with working in a fast paced gated agile environment

- Able to grasp the existing ‘as is’ business and solution landscape


Desirable Skills:


- 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


If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.

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Location: Edinburgh
Job Description:

Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Solutions Architect for an initial 12 month contract with option to extend on a rate of £600/day (Outside IR35). This role will be based in Edinburgh, however, attendance at the project site will only be required on an as-needed basis

Responsibilities:

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

– 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 across the organisation and with external organisations and partners

Essential Skills:

– 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

– Delivery focussed

– Comfortable managing multiple priorities

– Familiar with working in a fast paced gated agile environment

– Able to grasp the existing ‘as is’ business and solution landscape

Desirable Skills:

– 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

If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.

Posted: May 15th, 2026