Solutions Architect

ASA Recruitment’s client, a Public Sector organisation in Edinburgh are currently looking to recruit a Solutions Architect, for an initial 6 month contract (with potential extensions) on a rate c.£550-£600/day outside of IR35 (based on experience). Responsibilities: * Working with business and change stakeholders in shaping, agreeing and delivering solution architectures aligned to wider Design, Innovation and Architecture principles and standards * Working closely with Digital Labs and Scrum Teams to ensure that detailed designs and delivery work is consistent with the agreed solution architecture * Providing general technology guidance and advice to business and change stakeholders * Identifying opportunities to deliver business benefit and user-centric capability through adoption of new technologies and/or new ways of working * Collaborating with business stakeholders, business architects, other solution architects, product managers and Digital Labs across the organisation and with external organisations and partners Essential Skills & Experience: * Technical and solution architecture and design including within programmes, projects or product-centric organisations * Collaboratively devising technical standards, blueprints, reference architectures, roadmaps, transition states and target solutions across multiple services / organisations * Interacting and influencing senior stakeholders and a wide range of people across organisations, suppliers, customers, internal departments and teams * Supporting continuous improvement initiatives by helping to build solution design capability through delivery of solution architecture, standards and mentoring * Working with Cloud Infrastructure & Security Specific Experience. * Cloud Platform and Infrastructure * Cloud Native/Hybrid Cloud architectures * Cloud platform experience – e.g. – Microsoft Azure * Solution Integration and Integration Layers * SAAS package delivery and implementation experience * IAAS experience * PAAS experience