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