Solutions Architect - Edinburgh
Summary: The role of Solution Architect focuses on supporting a Scottish public sector digital transformation programme by engaging with various stakeholders to develop practical, delivery-ready solutions. This hands-on position requires collaboration with public sector organisations to understand existing systems and create clear implementation guidance. The role emphasizes a delivery-oriented approach rather than a purely strategic or advisory one. Occasional travel is required, and the contract is initially for six months with the potential for extension.
Key Responsibilities:
- Engaging directly with public sector stakeholders across organisations of varying digital maturity to understand current (as-is) processes, systems, and constraints
- Working collaboratively to define feasible, delivery-ready future (to-be) approaches
- Exploring and shaping solution options at pace, balancing technical feasibility, data standards, and operational realities
- Designing and documenting integration patterns, API and data exchange approaches, and identity management/matching solutions
- Producing high-quality implementation guidance, templates, and reusable components
- Taking ownership from initial stakeholder conversation through to finished written output
Key Skills:
- Demonstrable Solution/Technical Architecture experience within the Scottish public sector
- A genuinely hands-on delivery track record - not limited to high-level design or governance
- Strong experience translating as-is/to-be stakeholder needs into practical, deliverable solutions
- Experience producing clear, structured technical documentation and guidance artefacts (playbooks, patterns, implementation guidance)
- Comfortable working at pace in ambiguous, discovery-led environments
- Cloud computing, API design and management, web services
- Enterprise and systems integration patterns
- Data architecture, data modelling, and master data management
- Identity and data matching approaches
- Cyber security principles
Salary (Rate): £650/day
City: Edinburgh
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Solution Architect - Public Sector Digital Programme (Scotland)
Location: Edinburgh-based, mainly remote (occasional travel required) Contract: 6 months (initially, with potential to extend) Rate: Up to £650/day IR35 Status: Outside
The Opportunity
We're supporting a Scottish public sector digital transformation programme in their search for a hands-on Solution Architect to join a small, multidisciplinary delivery team. This is a practical, delivery-focused role - not a purely strategic or advisory position.
You'll work directly with a range of public sector organisations to understand current systems and processes, shape practical and delivery-ready solutions, and produce clear implementation guidance and reusable artefacts that will directly inform a wider framework being rolled out across Scotland.
What You'll Be Doing- Engaging directly with public sector stakeholders across organisations of varying digital maturity to understand current (as-is) processes, systems, and constraints
- Working collaboratively to define feasible, delivery-ready future (to-be) approaches
- Exploring and shaping solution options at pace, balancing technical feasibility, data standards, and operational realities
- Designing and documenting integration patterns, API and data exchange approaches, and identity management/matching solutions
- Producing high-quality implementation guidance, templates, and reusable components
- Taking ownership from initial stakeholder conversation through to finished written output
What We're Looking For
Experience & approach
- Demonstrable Solution/Technical Architecture experience within the Scottish public sector
- A genuinely hands-on delivery track record - not limited to high-level design or governance
- Strong experience translating as-is/to-be stakeholder needs into practical, deliverable solutions
- Experience producing clear, structured technical documentation and guidance artefacts (playbooks, patterns, implementation guidance)
- Comfortable working at pace in ambiguous, discovery-led environments
Technical capability
- Cloud computing, API design and management, web services
- Enterprise and systems integration patterns
- Data architecture, data modelling, and master data management
- Identity and data matching approaches
- Cyber security principles
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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