Solution Architect - DV Cleared

DV Cleared IaaC Solution Architect - Contract (Outside IR35)

Location: Near Worcester (with on-site presence as required)
Contract Length: 12 Months
Rate: £580-£630 per day (Outside IR35)
Flexible Schedule: Option to work a condensed week (eg 3 long days, paid for 5)

Overview

We're seeking an experienced DV Cleared Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) Solution Architect to join a growing Cyber Division, delivering cutting-edge secure systems and solutions to MOD and UK Government clients.

You'll take a strategic, end-to-end view of complex technical ecosystems, ensuring systems and components integrate seamlessly to meet both functional and non-functional requirements. As a trusted technical authority, you'll shape solution design, drive architectural governance, and guide multi-disciplinary teams across the full delivery life cycle.

This role sits within a highly skilled and collaborative architecture community, providing both autonomy and the opportunity to make a significant technical impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the technical design authority, accountable for ensuring all systems, services, and components interact effectively.

• Interpret customer objectives, statements of work, and target outcomes to define solution requirements and success measures.

• Translate high-level requirements and EPICs into detailed user stories and architectures using Agile and SAFe methodologies.

• Assess current and target states of customer systems and design transformation roadmaps to achieve desired outcomes.

• Develop, evaluate, and communicate solution architectures that balance performance, security, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.

• Support programme and project managers in translating architecture into actionable delivery and operational plans.

• Provide technical leadership and oversight to delivery teams, resolving design and implementation challenges.

• Maintain alignment with MOD and Government standards, frameworks, and security protocols.

• Stay current with evolving technologies, architecture frameworks, and industry best practice to inform solution design.

• Drive governance, audit, and continual service improvement across technical documentation, design artefacts, and processes.

Skills & Experience Required

• UK National with active DV clearance (essential).

• Proven experience in systems infrastructure architecture, including network, storage, virtualisation, and Client Server design.

• Strong knowledge of Windows Server, Group Policy, Red Hat Linux, and secure gateway technologies.

• Experience designing secure, high-availability, and resilient systems.

• Strong background in requirements analysis, system integration, and life cycle management (design to disposal).

• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and documentation skills.

• Ability to operate independently while contributing effectively to team-based projects.

Desirable Experience

• Working within highly secure environments or classified systems.

• Familiarity with MOD standards, policies, and working practices.

• Experience with Cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, or similar).

• Exposure to Secure DevOps and Agile/SAFe delivery models.

• Understanding of architecture frameworks and modelling (eg TOGAF, MODAF, ArchiMate).

Why Join?

• Competitive Outside IR35 daily rate (£580-£630).

• Flexible working options, including condensed week (3 long days).

• Long-term 12-month contract with potential for extension.

• Opportunity to deliver mission-critical systems in a high-trust, high-impact environment.