Solutions Architect

Solutions Architect

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Role overview:

Shape a secure, integrated and deliverable technology solution for ESCS. The Solution Architect works across customer needs, business outcomes, enterprise constraints and delivery capabilities to create a coherent solution architecture, roadmaps and evidence for investment and implementation.

The role you will play:

- Translate complex mission and business needs into a clear end-to-end solution architecture.

- Connect reusable Leidos capabilities, COTS products, cloud services, integration and data approaches into an achievable solution.

- Provide architecture leadership from early shaping and estimation through delivery assurance and transition.

Primary responsibilities:

- Lead discovery and architecture definition across business, application, data, integration, technology and security viewpoints.

- Develop solution options, trade studies, architecture decisions, roadmaps and transition states.

- Define non-functional requirements and assure security, resilience, performance, scalability, interoperability and supportability.

- Create high-level designs and guide decomposition into engineering work packages and low-level designs.

- Support estimates and investment cases with architectural assumptions, risks, dependencies and resource needs.

- Assess reuse opportunities, legacy constraints, supplier propositions and build-versus-buy choices.

- Engage customer, programme, security, commercial, supplier and engineering stakeholders to resolve design decisions.

- Maintain traceability between customer outcomes, requirements, architecture, delivery and acceptance.

- Provide technical assurance during implementation and support controlled transition into service.

Required skills and capabilities :

- End-to-end solution architecture

- Enterprise architecture methods and viewpoint modelling

- Secure cloud architecture on Azure and/or AWS

- Application, integration, API and event-driven architecture

- Data architecture, analytics and information governance awareness

- Identity, access, Zero Trust and security-by-design principles

- Non-functional requirements and architectural assurance

- COTS, SaaS and legacy integration

- Option analysis, trade studies, roadmaps and transition planning

- Bid support, estimation and senior stakeholder communication

Required experience:

- Solution architecture leadership on complex, multi-domain technology change.

- Experience engaging customers to shape ambiguous needs into feasible solution options.

- Experience developing architecture artefacts that can be used for estimation, engineering and assurance.

- Experience balancing mission outcome, security, delivery risk, cost, schedule and maintainability.

Desired experience:

- National security, defence or wider public-sector environments.

- Cross-domain integration, secure data platforms or mission systems.

- TOGAF, BCS, AWS, Azure or equivalent architecture accreditation.

- Product, IRAD, pre-sales or competitive bid shaping.

Success in the role :

- Architecture is coherent, secure, traceable and implementable.

- Assumptions, trade-offs and residual risks are transparent to decision-makers.

- Delivery teams receive sufficient guidance without unnecessary prescription.

- Reusable capabilities and patterns are identified and applied appropriately.

- Architecture remains aligned from early shaping through acceptance and service transition.

Clearance Requirements:

- SC required to start

- SC required for the role

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