Solution Architect
12-month contract
£600 per day
Outside IR35
Hybrid - Edinburgh (1-2 days per week)
Lorien are currently recruiting for an experienced Solution Architect to join a major digital transformation programme within a complex, fast-paced organisation. This is an exciting opportunity to shape and deliver user-centric solutions across a portfolio of high-impact change initiatives.
The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring architecture principles, standards, and best practice are consistently applied, working closely with business stakeholders and delivery teams to drive effective and scalable solutions.
Key responsibilities:
1. Work with business and change stakeholders to shape, agree, and deliver solution architectures aligned to wider design, innovation, and architecture principles.
2. Collaborate closely with delivery teams, including Digital Labs and Scrum teams, to ensure detailed designs align with agreed solution architectures.
3. Provide strategic technology guidance and advice to stakeholders across the organisation.
4. Identify opportunities to drive business benefit and enhance user experience through new technologies and innovative ways of working.
5. Contribute to cross-functional collaboration with business architects, product managers, other architects, and external partners.
6. Support continuous improvement by helping to build internal solution design capability, including mentoring and establishing standards.
Key requirements:
7. Proven experience in solution architecture and technical design within programmes, projects, or product-led environments.
8. Strong experience developing technical standards, reference architectures, roadmaps, and target state designs across complex environments.
9. Demonstrated ability to engage, influence, and manage senior stakeholders across multiple teams and organisations.
10. Experience working in fast-paced, agile delivery environments, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
11. Strong understanding of existing ("as is") and target ("to be") architecture landscapes.
12. Technical experience across cloud and integration technologies, including:
13. Cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure
14. Cloud-native and hybrid cloud architectures
15. Infrastructure across IaaS and PaaS models
16. SaaS delivery and implementation
17. Integration layers and solution integration approaches
18. Exposure to cloud security best practices
This is an excellent opportunity for a seasoned Solution Architect to contribute to a high-profile transformation programme, working in a collaborative environment with strong delivery focus and flexibility.
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.