Solutions Architect - 12mth - Outside IR35 - Edinburgh

Solution Architect

12-month contract
£600 per day
Outside IR35
Hybrid - Edinburgh (1-2 days per week)

Lorien are currently recruiting for an experienced Solution Architect to join a major digital transformation programme within a complex, fast-paced organisation. This is an exciting opportunity to shape and deliver user-centric solutions across a portfolio of high-impact change initiatives.

The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring architecture principles, standards, and best practice are consistently applied, working closely with business stakeholders and delivery teams to drive effective and scalable solutions.

Key responsibilities:

• Work with business and change stakeholders to shape, agree, and deliver solution architectures aligned to wider design, innovation, and architecture principles.
• Collaborate closely with delivery teams, including Digital Labs and Scrum teams, to ensure detailed designs align with agreed solution architectures.
• Provide strategic technology guidance and advice to stakeholders across the organisation.
• Identify opportunities to drive business benefit and enhance user experience through new technologies and innovative ways of working.
• Contribute to cross-functional collaboration with business architects, product managers, other architects, and external partners.
• Support continuous improvement by helping to build internal solution design capability, including mentoring and establishing standards.

Key requirements:

• Proven experience in solution architecture and technical design within programmes, projects, or product-led environments.
• Strong experience developing technical standards, reference architectures, roadmaps, and target state designs across complex environments.
• Demonstrated ability to engage, influence, and manage senior stakeholders across multiple teams and organisations.
• Experience working in fast-paced, agile delivery environments, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Strong understanding of existing ("as is") and target ("to be") architecture landscapes.
• Technical experience across cloud and integration technologies, including:
• Cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure
• Cloud-native and hybrid cloud architectures
• Infrastructure across IaaS and PaaS models
• SaaS delivery and implementation
• Integration layers and solution integration approaches
• Exposure to cloud security best practices

This is an excellent opportunity for a seasoned Solution Architect to contribute to a high-profile transformation programme, working in a collaborative environment with strong delivery focus and flexibility.

For more information or to express interest, please get in touch.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.