Solution Architect - Maritime
Location: Bristol or Milton Keynes, UK
Work Type: Onsite (with flexibility for occasional remote working)
Employment Type: Permanent/Full-Time
Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Solution Architect to join a leading defence and security organisation, supporting a major programme within the Maritime Engineering and Logistics domain. This role is focused on designing and delivering innovative solutions for the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD), contributing to mission-critical systems and services.
Key Responsibilities
* Develop and evolve system architecture for Maritime programmes, ensuring alignment with user needs and system requirements.
* Integrate Maritime Systems architecture with broader enterprise architecture across the programme.
* Conduct design impact assessments and trade-off analyses.
* Maintain and present design baselines at solution coherence reviews.
* Support the development of system verification and user validation test plans.
Preferred Experience and Qualifications
1. Strong understanding of MOD maintenance, equipment, and engineering processes.
2. Familiarity with MOD standards including DEFSTAN and JSP.
3. Experience in cloud architecture, preferably Microsoft Azure.
4. Proficiency with enterprise architecture modelling tools (eg, S...