Solutions Architect

Solution Architect – Cyber, Security & Compliance (Contract)

📍 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