About this role
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 approaches such as 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
- Ability to work with incomplete or evolving requirements and provide architectural direction without unnecessarily constraining engineering teams
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
- Ability to work across several products or technical problems concurrently and prioritise architecture effort according to delivery need
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 at an appropriate level of detail, covering application, integration, data and technology or infrastructure views
- Review technical proposals, solution options and designs, identify trade-offs and provide recommendations 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, supporting 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 technical standards
- Collaborate with architects and engineering specialists to establish reusable patterns, standards and approaches across products
- Help teams investigate complex or cross-cutting technical issues and develop viable solution options
- Communicate architecture to technical and non-technical stakeholders, adapting the level of detail to the audience
Technologies
- ARM
- AWS
- Architect
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- DevOps
- Support
- Security
- Terraform
- microservices
More
We are recruiting for a hands-on Solution Architect to join a central architecture function supporting the design and delivery of digital products and services for policing. The role spans application architecture, solution design, integration, cloud infrastructure and engineering considerations. This is a six-month contract, inside IR35, paying up to £675 per day. The role is London-based, with hybrid working and two to three days a week onsite. We are advertising on behalf of Advanced Resource Managers (ARM), a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy providing technical contingency recruitment and resource solutions across technical industries. We will not send your CV without your permission.
last updated 44 week of 2026