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.