Solutions Architect @ ARM

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements

• Current and active SC Clearance and NPPV3
• Experience delivering architecture in one or more of these environments: large government departments; policing, law enforcement or public safety; large-scale, security-sensitive digital services; or programmes involving legacy modernisation, cloud migration or replacement of business-critical systems
• Strong experience as a Solution Architect in complex digital delivery environments associated with national policing systems
• Good application architecture and solution design experience, ideally across multiple products or services
• Experience designing modern applications and services using APIs, microservices, event-driven integration and cloud-native patterns
• Good understanding of the relationship between application architecture, infrastructure and software engineering
• Experience working directly with software engineers, technical leads, DevOps engineers and delivery teams
• Ability to translate requirements and problems into clear architecture options and practical solution designs
• Experience defining and working with non-functional requirements
• Understanding of security, resilience, scalability, availability, observability and operational considerations in solution design
• Highly desirable: practical knowledge of AWS architecture and infrastructure design, and experience designing cloud-native solutions using AWS services
• Highly desirable: understanding of DevOps, CI/CD and modern software delivery practices
• Highly desirable: experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform
• Highly desirable: understanding of containerisation and orchestration technologies
• Highly desirable: experience with automated testing, deployment pipelines and environment management
• Highly desirable: experience with integration architecture, API management and event-driven architectures
• Highly desirable: experience with architecture modelling tools and maintaining architecture repositories
• Highly desirable: knowledge of architecture frameworks, patterns and technology standards

Responsibilities

• Develop, review and maintain solution and application architectures across digital products and services, translating business and technical requirements into pragmatic, deliverable designs
• Produce architecture and design artefacts, including application, integration, data, technology and infrastructure views
• Review technical proposals, solution options and designs, identify trade-offs, and recommend approaches to support delivery decisions
• Work with engineering teams to ensure architecture is implementable and aligned with modern engineering practices
• Provide architecture input throughout the product lifecycle, from discovery and design through development, transition and operation
• Support the design of solutions deployed within AWS, considering compute, networking, storage, security, resilience, availability, observability and operational support
• Work with engineering teams on DevOps and CI/CD approaches to support automated build, test, deployment and operation
• Contribute to Infrastructure as Code approaches, particularly Terraform, and align infrastructure design with application architecture
• Define and assure non-functional requirements, including performance, availability, resilience, scalability, security, supportability and maintainability
• Identify architectural risks, technical debt, dependencies and constraints, and work with delivery teams on mitigation or resolution
• Support integration between products, shared services and external systems, considering APIs, events, data flows and end-to-end dependencies
• Capture and maintain architecture decisions and their rationale
• Contribute to architecture governance and assurance, helping teams navigate governance while maintaining appropriate technical standards
• Collaborate with other architects and engineering specialists to establish reusable patterns, standards and approaches across multiple products

Technologies

• API
• ARM
• AWS
• Architect
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Support
• Security
• Terraform
• microservices

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We are seeking a hands-on Solution Architect to join a central architecture function supporting the design and delivery of digital products and services for policing. This is a six-month contract, inside IR35, paying up to £675 per day. The role is London-based with hybrid working and three days a week onsite. The vacancy is advertised by Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited (ARM). We are a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy providing technical contingency recruitment and more complex resource solutions across technical industries. We will not send your CV without your permission.

last updated 43 week of 2026