Full job descriptionSolution 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.