Solution Architect
Location: Huntingdon F/T on-site
Clearance level - High DV - Developed Vetting
Your Role and Responsibilities
- Architecture experience – ability to work within a complex programme and solution ecosystem focusing on areas of responsibility while maintaining a big picture perspective and building relationships within and outside the team.
- Design – accountable for High Level Designs (HLD) of complex solution changes encompassing multiple technologies and areas of expertise.
- Inclusive – as a Domain Architect, lead the solution, encourage open discussion, create a safe environment, listen, advocate for change and innovation.
- Delivery – enable and support implementation of project elements, proofs of concept and other technical deliverables through to Service Acceptance.
- Collaborative – work with program leadership (Programme, Engineering, Security, Service) aligned to SAFe‑based iterative program execution.
- Growth – work closely with customer stakeholders to identify opportunities to enhance capability effectiveness, identify solution gaps and develop credible propositions for future business.
- Supplier Management – work with existing suppliers and identify new suppliers when required from customer suggestions or agreed requirements.
Required Skills
- Provide overarching architectural guidance.
- Architect modernisation of capability (Systems, Applications, Platforms).
- Technical Design
- Application integration & hosting (on‑prem and cloud)
- Data migration
- Transition and transformation
- Experience delivering application portfolio within a complex environment
- Enterprise business applications
- Understanding of networking (LAN, WAN)
- Integration of business processes/workflows with COTS/GOTS software
- End user environments (VMware, Horizon, SCCM)
- Containers and microservices integration
- Delivery using agile and DevOps concepts
- Bid experience in public sector / defence an advantage
- Ability to work under pressure in large multi‑discipline teams to tight schedules.
- Ability to lead architecture and engineering teams within a larger project.
- Ability to engage stakeholders from multiple areas of the business including product design, service design and operations.
- Estimating and planning skills to support project and agile planning.
- Communication skills to produce written, verbal, and visual deliverables, explaining complex topics concisely to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
Desired Skills
- Security Architecture including Secure by Design.
- Experience of MoD Architecture and Solution processes and methods.
- Familiarity with enterprise geospatial systems.
- Bid experience in public sector / defence an advantage.
Clearance Required
- Clearance to Role – DV (with ability to gain STRAP).
Pay Range
£61,500.00 – £78,800.00
Equal Employment Opportunity
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure (marital status), ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.
We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. If you have a disability or need reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.
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