Solution Architect - Government Experience at Stealth IT Consulting, United Kingdom, 6 Months, £Contract Rate

Job Title: Solution Architect
Rate: £550 - £600 (Outside IR35)
Duration: 6 months
Location: Remote
Clearance: BPSS
Stages: 1 Stage

Must Have Government Experience

Key Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end technical solutions that meet business and user requirements.
• Produce solution architecture documentation, including architecture diagrams, solution designs, integration specifications, and technical roadmaps.
• Ensure solutions align with architecture standards, DDaT Technology Code of Practice, and Government Digital Service (GDS) standards.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architects to ensure alignment with strategic architecture.
• Work alongside Agile delivery teams throughout discovery, Alpha, beta, and live phases.
• Evaluate technology options and recommend appropriate platforms, services, and integration patterns.
• Provide technical leadership during solution delivery and implementation.
• Conduct architecture governance reviews and design assurance activities.
• Ensure solutions meet security, privacy, accessibility, and regulatory requirements.
• Support cloud-first strategies using public cloud platforms.
• Design resilient, highly available, and scalable systems.
• Identify technical risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Provide guidance to development teams on implementation best practices.
• Collaborate with DevOps, Security, Infrastructure, Data, and Product teams.
• Participate in architecture review boards and technical governance forums.
• Support procurement activities by assessing supplier technical proposals.

Technical Responsibilities

• Define solution architectures across applications, infrastructure, cloud, data, and integration layers.
• Design API-led and event-driven architectures.
• Produce high-level and low-level solution designs.
• Design secure cloud-native solutions.
• Define integration patterns between Legacy and modern platforms.
• Support migration from on-premise systems to cloud environments.
• Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements including:
  • Availability
  • Scalability
  • Security
  • Maintainability
  • Performance
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Monitoring
  • Observability