Salary: £13,200 - 14,400 per year Requirements:
* We require experience in technical and solution architecture and design, including within programmes, projects, or product-centric organisations.
* We require the ability to collaboratively devise technical standards, blueprints, reference architectures, roadmaps, transition states, and target solutions across multiple services or organisations.
* We require experience interacting with and influencing senior stakeholders and a wide range of people across organisations, suppliers, customers, internal departments, and teams.
* We require experience supporting continuous improvement initiatives by helping build solution design capability through delivery of solution architecture, standards, and mentoring.
* We require specific experience in cloud infrastructure and security.
* We require experience with cloud platform and infrastructure.
* We require experience with cloud-native and hybrid cloud architectures.
* We require cloud platform experience, such as Microsoft Azure.
* We require experience in solution integration and integration layers.
* We require SaaS package delivery and implementation experience.
* We require IaaS experience.
* We require PaaS experience.
Responsibilities:
* We work with business and change stakeholders to shape, agree, and deliver solution architectures aligned to wider Design, Innovation, and Architecture principles and standards.
* We work closely with Digital Labs and Scrum Teams to ensure detailed designs and delivery work are consistent with the agreed solution architecture.
* We provide general technology guidance and advice to business and change stakeholders.
* We identify opportunities to deliver business benefit and user-centric capability through the adoption of new technologies and/or new ways of working.
* We collaborate with business stakeholders, business architects, other solution architects, product managers, and Digital Labs across the organisation and with external organisations and partners.
Technologies:
* Architect
* Azure
* Cloud
* IaaS
* PaaS
* Security
More:
We are a Public Sector organisation based in Edinburgh, and we are looking to recruit a Solutions Architect for an initial 6-month contract with potential extensions. This role is outside IR35 and offers a day rate of approximately £550–£600 depending on experience. You will join a collaborative environment working across business, change, digital, and architecture teams, with the opportunity to contribute to technology strategy, solution design, and continuous improvement across the organisation.
last updated 20 week of 2026