Solution Architect

Solution Architect Max Supplier Charge Rate: £650 Clearance required: SC cleared Location: Remote 'This role requires additional vetting, which means this could take longer than our normal onboarding process. You will…

Pay rate £520 – £598/day
Contract type Contract
Posted 2 October 2026

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Solution Architect
Max Supplier Charge Rate: £650
Clearance required: SC cleared
Location: Remote
'This role requires additional vetting, which means this could take longer than our normal onboarding process. You will require additional vetting for this position, which means the process can take longer than the usual onboarding process"

Job Description:

Designs application products to meet user needs and align with DWP strategy and standards.
Provides a consistent set of application product architecture views, that communicate and describe the construction of the solution to all stakeholders.
Solution communication champion, making the complex simple to understand.
Supporting delivery teams, blending technical (development and architecture) and behaviour (leadership and communication) skills.
Responsibilities -

To design and represent architecture solutions
Deliver the technical and architecture design elements of projects / initiatives
Build relationships and work collaboratively with other Digital professionals
Create solution options and recommendations during project discovery and inception phases, to drive decision making on best solution design
Make technology choice proposals for Products
Create high-level solution architecture documentation and architecture design artefacts for governance, including all relevant SME input.
To ensure compliance of design with approved design in the Digital Blueprint
Ensure technical quality and adherence of Product designs to the Digital Blueprint, Enterprise Architecture and Product Roadmaps
Engage with Domain and Lead Solution Architects and engineers to implement solutions according to agreed and approved designs
Advocate and support delivery of solutions that reduce architecture complexity and reduce technical debt* To maintain Product roadmaps and help maintain the Digital Blueprint

Be accountable for product architecture, contribute to product roadmaps, in alignment with engineering

Identify, capture, iterate and implement architecture patterns* To contribute to, and build capability in, the Architecture community

Sharing best practice and reference architectures
Participate/Support development of the Architecture Community of Practice
Skills -

Significant Architecture experience
Government/Public client experience
AWS/Azure Solution experience and relevant certification (good to have)If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from us, please contact us via the ManpowerGroup website

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