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Solutions Architect
£18,000 - 24,000
Meritus
West Way Units 7-8, Andover
£18,000 - 24,000
Requirements
Must:
- TOGAF Certified, with hands-on experience creating and governing architecture using tools like Sparx Enterprise Architect and Archimate.
- Cloud solution expertise - strong track record designing resilient services on AWS or Azure.
- DevOps mindset, with practical knowledge of modern CI/CD pipelines and automated delivery practices.
- Strong integration background - experienced in microservices, REST APIs, JSON, and contemporary integration patterns.
- Security-first thinking, particularly around SSO, Identity and Access Management, SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect, and Active Directory.
Responsibilities
- Set the direction for complex government and defence programmes, owning the solution vision from concept through to delivery.
- Modernise critical systems, lead cloud migration and application transformation initiatives for high-traffic, highly secure environments.
- Act as a technical authority, reviewing solution designs and ensuring every decision meets both architectural governance and strict security standards.
- Turn requirements into reality by translating policy, user needs, and data flows into clear, practical solution architectures.
- Make smart trade-offs, weighing cost, performance, risk, and complexity, and be confident in your recommendations.
Description
We are MERITUS, a specialist technology consultancy delivering high-impact digital transformation across UK Central Government and Defence. We are looking for a Senior Solution Architect who can set technical direction on projects that genuinely shape national infrastructure and public-sector capability. This isn't a paper-based architecture role; you'll be at the intersection of strategy and engineering, guiding multidisciplinary teams and making decisions that affect large-scale, secure services used across government. If you are the kind of architect who likes to get close to delivery while still steering the bigger picture, this opportunity is for you. The role is a contract running initially until 31st March 2026 and is hybrid with 1-2 days per week in the Andover office. We are offering up to £800 per day (Outside IR35). If you believe that you have the skills and experience for the Solutions Architect role, we encourage you to get in touch. We also offer a referral scheme for any candidates whose details are passed to us that we successfully place.
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