Job Description
Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit a Solution Architect for an initial 6 month contract with option to extend on a rate of £600-£650/day (Inside IR35). This role will be remote based although it would be to attend meetings in the office when required.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the design of the organisation’s online platform future solution architecture, including authentication, federated, and integration of cloud-based education services.
- Ensure the authentication platform and federated services and any nationally provided services are designed and deployed to meet the needs of the organisation.
- Design and oversee solutions that enable cloud-based solutions using single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA), standards-based federation protocols, and user lifecycle management across multiple organisations and services.
- Lead the replacement or integration of existing technology platforms, ensuring interoperability with legacy services and new digital platforms.
- Perform and assure options analysis for new capabilities to ensure proposed solutions align with the target architecture and security strategy.
- Establish best practice approaches for delivering SaaS-based solutions, applying them pragmatically across the programme.
- Collaborate and work with customer organisations and others to ensure all services meet the needs of the organisation and its users.
- Work closely with colleagues and partner organisations to ensure authentication and services integrate seamlessly.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with both technical and non-technical stakeholders across Directorates, Divisions, and customer organisations.
- Represent the programme in governance forums, architectural review boards, and external stakeholder engagements, ensuring alignment with security, privacy, and interoperability objectives.
Essential Skills:
- Deep experience defining target integration/technology architectures for corporate or government services, particularly in a cloud environment and aligning these to a programme strategy.
- Experience with implementation of integrated cloud systems and data, including large scale data migration activities, complex integrations and delivery of robust security controls.
- Familiarity with platforms, standards (e.g., Azure AD, Ping, Okta, ForgeRock) and their integration into complex environments.
- Proven experience designing and implementing cloud-based authentication and federated solutions at scale, ideally in a multi-organisation or government context.
- Experience leading in a multi-disciplinary team, with both business users and suppliers and large transformation programme exposure.
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
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