Solutions Architect - Active DV required

Location: Bristol / Customer Sites (fully onsite)

Duration: 9 month contract

Rate: 89ph LTD (Outside IR35)

Role details:

Our client, a leading defence company, are looking for a Solutions Architect to join their Intelligence Solutions business unit on a contract basis.

You will work within a highly skilled Solution Architecture community and apply your architecture skills to new systems integration projects and across a range of existing systems. Key responsibility areas will include:

• Interpret customers' business objectives, concerns, statements of work, and target market for services, to define requirements and key success factors for solutions. Break down EPIC into stories and facilitate the AGILE approach to deliver the solution.
• Assess the current and desired state of customer systems and environments.
• Understand contextual factors, constraints and stakeholder perspectives including business, user and operations, and define use cases.
• Maintain current understanding of IT, security and supporting technologies, supplier offerings and in-house capabilities with which to construct solutions.
• Use broad technical expertise and creative thinking to define, evaluate alternatives, develop and communicate solution architectures that address functional and non-functional requirements and integrate with their environment.
• Support project, programme and service operations managers in the development and delivery of transformation plans and operational plans that implement solution architectures and provide services, while identifying and mitigating risks.
• Develop solutions into high level designs for implementation by engineering teams.
• Provide technical oversight, guidance and problem solving to operational and project delivery teams to help maintain delivery quality and resolve implementation, integration and maintenance challenges.
• Responsible for keeping technical awareness up-to-date with updates in industry.
• Maintaining a coherent mix of Design Principles/Characteristics derived from the client base and internal practices tailored to specific contracts.

What we are looking for in you:

• The role requires the candidate to be a sole UK National with a current DV clearance.
• Systems infrastructure engineering and architecture design including network solutions, storage solutions, virtualisation solutions, client/server solutions, Windows and Red Hat operating systems, and high availability solutions.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Windows Server and Group Policy; Security Enforcing technologies and Secure gateway solutions providing interconnectivity to external 'untrusted' networks.
• Detailed requirements analysis and solution design experience.
• Experience of the complete systems development life-cycle from design through to operation/maintenance including transition, migration and disposal.
• Excellent people skills.
• Excellent documentation skills including initial development/production.

Highly Desirable skills:

• Experience working within secure environments and with higher classified systems.
• Experience of MOD working practices and associated standards and policies.
• Experience of Cloud based technologies.
• Experience with Secure DevOps within an Agile /SAFe environment.
• Experience of architecture frameworks and architecture modelling.

Interested? Apply today via the link provided.