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📍 Bristol/Leeds/Edinburgh/Manchester, UK (Hybrid) | 💷 £475 per day (Inside IR35)

🕒 6-month contract

Our client, a top global organization, is seeking an experienced Solution Architect to support the architecture of a Cyber & Physical Defence Centre, with a strong focus on regulatory, compliance, and security monitoring. This role blends deep technical architecture expertise with strong security and cryptographic knowledge, helping shape secure, compliant, and future-proof solutions across complex platforms.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain solution architecture supporting regulatory and compliance monitoring capabilities.

  • Design end-to-end solution architectures that consider technical, regulatory, commercial, and organisational factors.

  • Apply industry best practices, standards, frameworks, and policies to drive value and architectural consistency.

  • Elicit requirements and shape designs or prototypes aligned to target architectures for security and compliance.

  • Act as a subject matter expert, defining guiding principles, architectural standards, and success criteria.

  • Provide architectural oversight to ensure modern, decoupled, and secure solutions are delivered.

  • Support Product Owners and Platform Leads in identifying and assessing software, infrastructure, and security risks.

  • Offer clear architectural options and recommendations, including ever-greening and modernisation strategies.

  • Contribute to architecture governance, risk management, and compliance processes.

    Essential Skills & Experience

  • Proven experience in solution architecture or systems engineering within multi-disciplinary product or platform teams.

  • Strong knowledge of regulatory and compliance frameworks.

  • Solid understanding of secure configuration and deployment practices, including Infrastructure-as-Code.

  • Hands-on experience with Terraform, and familiarity with tools such as Harness and GitHub.

  • Strong expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and its security services.

  • Good understanding of cryptographic principles and experience reviewing or designing cryptographic solutions.

  • Experience collaborating closely with Enterprise, Security, Data, and Infrastructure Architects.

  • Proven experience contributing to architecture governance, risk management, and compliance activities.

  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical topics clearly to non-technical audiences.

    Desirable Experience

  • Previous experience working in a Cyber Defence, Security Operations, or SOC environment.

  • Strong visual communication skills and experience storytelling with architecture artefacts and data.

    If this is relevant to your experience, please apply with your CV and we’ll be in touch

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