Your new company
A renowned global consultancy is seeking a Dental Solution Architect to design and deliver secure, reliable dental IT solutions for a national defence organisation.
Your new role
The role focuses on creating systems that work in disconnected or low‑connectivity environments, such as deployed or remote military locations. What You’ll Do:
* Lead solution architecture for dental systems used in remote, mobile, or intermittently connected settings.
* Design secure, resilient platforms
* Translate clinical and operational needs into scalable technical designs.
* Produce architectural documentation (HLDs, LLDs, data flows, security models, integration designs).
* Support procurement, vendor evaluation, and assurance/accreditation activities.
* Work with clinical teams, engineers, security specialists, and procurement stakeholders.
What you’ll need to succeed
* Strong background as an Architect
* Experience with dental IT systems (PMS/EHR, imaging, workflows).
* Hands-on experience designing offline-first or edge-based solutions.
* Understanding of defence or highly secure environments.
* Knowledge of cloud, hybrid, and data architecture.
* Ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
What you’ll get in return
Flexible working options available.
What you need to do now
If you’re interested in this role, click ‘apply now’ to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
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Job title: Solutions Architect
Location: Cheltenham
Salary: £69,611 to £77,801, comprising a basic salary of £66,581 and a concessionary payment of £3,030. The exact salary offered within this range will depend on your skills and experience. An additional Skills Payment is available once your skills level is confirmed, £3,822 for Level 1 or £8,190 for Level 2.
Flexible working: We offer a range of working patterns, including full-time, part-time, and compressed hours, with flexible start and finish times to support a work-life balance. While most of our work is carried out on-site due to its sensitive nature, occasional home working may be possible depending on business needs. Find out more about flexible working on our website.
GCHQ is an intelligence, cyber and security agency with a mission to keep the UK safe. We use cutting-edge technology, ingenuity and partnerships to identify, analyse and disrupt threats. Working with our intelligence partners, MI5 and MI6, we protect the UK from terrorism, cyber-attacks and espionage. At GCHQ, you’ll do varied and fascinating work in a supportive and inclusive environment that puts the emphasis on teamwork.
As a Solutions Architect, you’ll help deliver technology solutions that support GCHQ’s mission, drawing on your experience to lead design work, manage a team, and make strategic architectural decisions. The nature of our work requires advanced, innovative technology, offering you the chance to apply your skills to unique and meaningful challenges.
Working across a range of complex projects, you’ll shape solution designs, produce clear documentation and models, and ensure alignment with established architectural standards. You’ll work closely with stakeholders, balancing technical, business, cost, and risk considerations to deliver scalable and resilient solutions.
Day-to-day, you’ll collaborate with delivery teams, engineers, and business colleagues to clarify requirements, adapt designs and guide their implementation. You’ll produce and maintain artefacts, provide clarity and direction, and mentor less-senior colleagues. Occasional travel across the UK will also be required so you can work closely with colleagues from all areas of the organisation.
To apply, you’ll bring experience in solutions architecture, including leading the design of end-to-end digital or technology solutions. You’ll have familiarity with frameworks such as TOGAF, NIST, and ITIL, along with experience managing or line-managing a team. You’ll be skilled at producing artefacts that guide delivery teams and at explaining design decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. Effective stakeholder management, collaboration and negotiation skills will also help you align differing user needs with organisational priorities. Adaptability, time management, critical thinking, and creative problem-solving will support you in delivering well-rounded solutions to complex challenges.
When you join us, you’ll have a full induction to GCHQ so you can understand who we are and what we do. Once in your role, you’ll receive formal and on-the-job training, along with all the support you need to thrive. We’re committed to continuous professional development and to providing the space for you to grow, innovate and experiment. Typically, around 20% of your time is dedicated to developing yourself and supporting others.
We know development looks different for everyone, so we’ll tailor our support to your learning style, whether that’s through books, courses, conferences or stretch assignments. We’ll cover the cost of professional qualifications and give you the time and support to achieve them. From day one, you’ll have access to mentors and subject-matter experts, and we’ll work with you to build a structured development plan aligned with your goals.
At GCHQ, diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission. To protect the UK, we need a truly diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve. This includes diversity in every sense of the word: those with different backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ways of thinking and those with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including those from groups that are under-represented in our workforce such as women, those from an ethnic minority background, people with disabilities and those from low socio-economic backgrounds. You can find out more about our culture, working environment and diversity on our website.
To find out more and apply, please visit our website.
To be eligible to apply, you must be a British Citizen. If you hold dual nationality, of which one component is British, you will still be considered. Candidates must normally have been resident in the UK for seven out of the last ten years. This is particularly important if you were born outside the UK. We welcome applications from candidates of all ages, and there is no upper age limit. You can apply at 17; if successful, you will not be offered a start date prior to your 18th birthday. Full eligibility details can be found on our website.
Solutions Architect, Enterprise Architect, Solution Architect, Solution Designer, Solutions Designer, Solutions Engineer, Solutions Technical Architect

Network Architect – Juniper Technologies (SD-WAN | MIST | Junos LAN)

We are seeking a highly experienced Network Architect with deep expertise in Juniper OEM technologies to lead the design, implementation, and optimization of enterprise-grade SD-WAN, LAN, and WLAN solutions. This is a hands on role, the involves Consulting, Engineering and Documentation.

Key Responsibilities

* Design and develop network architecture strategies and technology roadmaps for Juniper SD-WAN, MIST AI, and Junos LAN solutions aligned with business and IT objectives.

* Collaborate closely with customer IT and security teams to ensure solutions meet operational, performance, and compliance requirements.

* Lead configuration, deployment, and troubleshooting of Juniper SD-WAN, LAN, and WLAN platforms.

* Monitor overall network performance at a high level, proactively identifying improvement opportunities and resolving architectural gaps.

* Manage and optimize multi-vendor WAN environments with multi-protocol routing (EIGRP, BGP4, OSPF, etc.).

* Conduct network assessments, provide architectural recommendations, and document findings.

* Develop and maintain High-Level Designs (HLDs), Low-Level Designs (LLDs), and comprehensive technical solution documentation.

Required Qualifications

* Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

* Minimum 5 yrs of hands-on experience in network design and architecture.

* Strong expertise in Juniper technologies, including:

* Junos OS (Switching & Routing)

* Juniper SD-WAN Solutions

* Juniper MIST Wireless & MIST AI Platform

* Proven experience managing multi-vendor environments, including Cisco, HP, Juniper, Fortinet, Meraki, and others.

* Hands-on experience with:

* L3 & modular switches

* Routers and firewalls

* WAN optimizers

* Access Points & Wireless LAN Controllers (including centralized dashboards)

* Deep understanding of multi-protocol routing (EIGRP, BGP4, OSPF).

* Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving capabilities.

* Experience conducting network assessments and structured documentation.

* Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

* Commitment to continuous professional development and Juniper certification pathways.

Preferred Certifications

* JNCIE

* JNCIP

* JNCIS

* Or equivalent advanced networking certifications

Job Title: Enterprise Solution Architect
Location: London-3 days
Job Type: 6 months- Inside IR35

Role overview

The role will operate within a complex enterprise environment and will be aligned to a large programme of work, acting as the single point of architectural accountability across multiple workstreams.

Core skills and experience

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

* Strong end-to-end Solution Architecture capability, with a clear integration bias (demonstrable experience of different integration patterns)

* An appreciation for Engineering but this is not a hands-on Engineering role – this is a solution focused role

* Proven experience integrating across a broad technology landscape, including:

* Core banking platforms (Temenos)

* Digital platforms (e.g. Backbase)

* KYC / AML / regulatory systems / Financial (Oracle Finance)

* Ability to communicate effectively with both business and technical stakeholders, translating requirements into pragmatic architectural outcomes

* Experience working in an agile delivery model within a large enterprise environment

* Familiarity with large-scale transformation programmes, often operating as the architectural point of contact for delivery, vendors, and stakeholders

Were working with a large organisation undergoing significant cyber and digital transformation to hire a Cyber Security Architect focused on Enterprise Architecture.

This role sits within a dedicated Security Architecture function and is specifically aligned to securing enterprise IT systems and business applications. The focus is on designing and assuring cyber security controls across complex enterprise environments, ensuring business resilience, regulatory alignment, and risk mitigation from the outset.

This is not an enterprise architecture role it is centred on enterprise networks, cloud/hybrid infrastructures, and identity/access management.

What youll do

• Define and implement security architecture principles across enterprise IT environments.
• Embed secure-by-design controls into business applications, cloud platforms, and enterprise systems.
• Lead design assurance across network segmentation, zero-trust architectures, and secure cloud DMZ models.
• Identify architectural gaps within existing enterprise estates and define pragmatic remediation roadmaps.
• Align enterprise security architecture to recognised frameworks and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects, business stakeholders, and cyber teams to balance availability, compliance, and security.
• Provide architectural guidance across cloud migration and digital transformation programmes.

What were looking for

• Proven experience securing enterprise IT environments or complex business systems.
• Strong understanding of hybrid/cloud convergence and securing legacy or brownfield enterprise landscapes.
• Knowledge of recognised enterprise security standards such as NIST CSF, ISO 27001, and zero-trust principles.
• Experience designing secure segmentation models (zero-trust, micro-segmentation), next-gen firewalls, and secure remote access solutions.
• Familiarity with enterprise protocols and technologies such as SAML/OAuth, API security, and associated risks in cloud-native environments.
• Experience operating in regulated, business-critical, or high-availability enterprise settings.
• Ability to translate technical risk into clear architectural decisions for engineering and business audiences.

We welcome candidates from any industry with relevant enterprise architecture or infrastructure architecture experience energy, utilities, manufacturing, transport, defence, or other industrial sectors.

Whats on offer

• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, flexible leave options, and family-friendly policies
• Generous employer pension contribution up to 13.5% and employee health assistance programme
• Maternity, paternity, adoption, and parental leave, as well as flexible working and career breaks
• Employee Assistance Programme including helpline, coaching access, wellbeing app, digital GP service, and more

This is a strategic, high-impact role focused on securing enterprise systems that underpin critical business functions.

This is a permanent position based in the North West of England.

Candidates must have the right to work in the UK without sponsorship and have been resident in the UK for the last 5 years without more than 6 months living overseas.

How you’ll help us live our purpose

We’ve been helping our members save for their future and buy their own home since 1875. Join us and you’ll play a big role in helping us to put home ownership within reach of more people, generation after generation.

It’s a purpose that drives everything we do. And you can play your part too join our team as an Infrastructure Architect.

How you’ll make a difference

You’ll be responsible for the design, development and maintenance of our Data & AI platforms. The role ensures infrastructure is secure, scalable and fit for advanced analytics, AI enablement and cloud-first delivery, supporting both strategic transformation and day-to-day operational needs.

Working across IT, Data and the wider business, the role provides architectural leadership, sets technology direction and enables the safe adoption of modern data and AI capabilities.

What will you bring to the role?

• Significant experience as an Infrastructure Architect in a Microsoft Azure ecosystem

• Strong grounding in TOGAF, ITIL, systems analysis and solution design

• Proven experience designing and supporting Microsoft Azure based platforms

• Hands-on exposure to Data & AI technologies, such as:

• Azure Databricks / Microsoft Fabric

• Enterprise AI tooling (e.g. Copilot, Foundry, Bedrock or equivalent)

• Databases (SQL Server and/or Oracle)

Experience with identity, security and risk management, including Entra ID (Azure AD) Ability to influence stakeholders and support large-scale change, migration and modernisation initiatives

And in return, you’ll get the best from us:

• Hybrid working 2 days per week in the office
• Annual bonus of up to 12%
• Matched pension contributions up to 10%?
• 26 days holiday, plus bank holidays and holiday purchase scheme
• Colleague Mortgage and Saver products
• 2 days’ volunteering per year

We’ll give you a place to belong with the support to learn, develop and shape a meaningful career.

Why choose us?

Our business is centred around our people. Our colleagues are at the heart of everything we do, as shown by our Inclusive Employers Gold accreditation in 2023 and 2025. We’re committed to equal opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity.

You’ll be joining a truly purpose-focused culture which helped us win the Leading with Purpose award at the 2023?Business Culture Awards. This recognises how we’ve embedded our purpose with our colleagues, and the actions we’ve taken to put home ownership within reach of more people, generation after generation.

Why wait? Apply now

We’d love to hear from you. But don’t wait around - we may close the advert early and we’d hate for you to miss out.

We’re devoted to creating a culture and workplace that is representative of the communities we serve. If you’d like to work with us but are unsure if you meet the full criteria for a role, please contact the recruiter so we can find out more about your skills and experience. We’re committed to supporting you to be at your best - to discuss any reasonable adjustments we could make, please contact us on .

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My leading Financial Services client are looking for an Oracle Financials Architect to create and manage a Centre of Excellence (COE) in Oracle Financials (EBS/ERP) Technology Platform. You’ll be tasked with implementing, improving, monitoring, and maintaining the Oracle financial systems to ensure operational efficiency and data integrity as well as provide functional support to end users.

This is a newly created role in a growing business. A fantastic opportunity!

The following skills/experience is required:

• Excellent Oracle Financials background.
• Worked on modules such as GL, AP, FA.
• Ideally have worked in Financial Services or similar regulated business.
• Strong Finance & Accounting principles.
• Excellent communication skills.

Salary: Up to £125,000 + bonus + package

Level: Vice President (VP)

Location: London (good work from home options available)

If you are interested in this Finance Architect (Oracle) position and meet the above requirements please apply immediately.

6 months - possible extensions until Jan 2027

London

Inside IR35 - Umbrella only

What I’ll be doing - your accountabilities

• End-to-end Architecture Strategy/Roadmap and Design of the Wholesale Customer Segment
  • Sets and drives the target architecture strategy/roadmap and overarching blueprint aligned to the Business vision. Drives adoption of the strategic architecture, balancing the outcomes needed of the tribes (including transition states from current to planned)
  • You will align expected outcomes balancing customer value and technical debt (including relevant technology KPI targets), providing proactive Architecture assurance and architecture governance.
  • Guides on the technical shaping and feasibility driving definition of Lean Business Cases, epics and features, identifying major dependencies, estimating cost and complexity.
  • Inputs relevant tribe roadmaps content into overall Business architecture roadmap and strategy
• Responsible for consistent Business Architecture for Wholesale that aligns with pan models. Drives the business capabilities from a Wholesale perspective, ensuring their concerns are covered, the maturity and roadmap of capabilities, along with matrix of capabilities consumed from Tribes and other sub-domains.
• Responsible for bringing together subdomains, Tribes and Pan to ensure alignment, efficiency and scale across stitching Capability & Product Roadmaps within and across Wholesale
• Architecture Demand - Collaborates with Tribe Architects to understand Tribe product, business needs, time scales, supports the definition and creation of the relevant Architecture Runways and Solution Designs where needed
• Drive related Domain engineering excellence, quality assurance and technical debt optimization and backlog working alongside relevant tribe architects and tribes
• Ensure that Domain and relevant Tribe product/solution architecture meets the nonfunctional requirements:
  • Performance - Ensure the continued uptime/reliability, integrity, performance and maintenance of the Tribe’s experience layer.
  • Security - Ensures security by design and security compliance with all work in the tribe
  • Economics - Optimizes the TCO of the tribe architecture, ensuring the affordability of the IT with the sub-domain architect.
  • Modernisation - Ensure the tribe is following Cloud native guardrails and modernizing the relevant tribe components.
  • Re-usable patterns and Low-Level Designs - Supported the creation of innovative and repeatable solution architectures to resolve the most complex solution architecture problems and meet agreed requirements, reusable patterns catalogued and aligned to business capabilities the tribe offers from a Wholesale perspective
  • Leadership and Stakeholder engagement - Supports the Wholesale leadership team as their key Technology contact. Supporting new initiatives and researching future needs. Working with Business stakeholders and IT stakeholders to develop and gain support for proposed solutions, providing technology expertise and identifying efficiencies within deployed Technology. Collaborate and contribute to Wholesale and Business vision, goals, opportunities and related activities in order to maximize the business benefits of Enterprise Architecture initiatives to the organization across your Wholesale
  • Customer Centric - Promotes and adopts empathy driven design for customer centric products.
  • Inputs into the MTP process to ensure the relevant funding needed to advance the architecture is requested and identify where lack of funding is slowing the overall architecture rollout.

Skills required for the job

• Mandatory: 5 years+ experience in a senior architecture role.
• Mandatory: Experience of architecting from roadmap into blueprints and driving delivery aligned to architecture of Digital capabilities, Business Interaction Management ecosystems.
• Mandatory: Experience of using TMF API’s and data models.
• Mandatory: Very strong stakeholder management experience from junior developer through to CEO.
• Mandatory: Experience creating roadmaps for a “domain” that can tell both the technical, commercial and business impacts.
• Preferred: Experience of Agile planning, SAFE framework
• Preferred: TOGAF certified

Rate: 625 a day

Location: Reading - full time on site

Duration: 6 months +

Clearance: UKSV DV Clearance required

A leading global technology consultancy is looking for an experienced Application & Data Architect to join a high-profile Defence programme within a Joint Design Team.

This is a hands-on senior architecture role at the heart of a complex, secure delivery environment - shaping how applications are designed, assessed, and evolved across a significant enterprise estate.

The Role

You’ll lead the design and technical assurance of secure-by-design application and data architectures, owning architectural decisions across software systems of varying scale and risk. Day-to-day you’ll conduct application technical assessments, engage directly with delivery teams and senior stakeholders, and help drive long-term architectural direction while addressing immediate backlog priorities.

What You’ll Need

• Strong enterprise application architecture experience in secure or Defence environments
• Hands-on knowledge of COTS/GOTS products, middleware, integration, and databases
• Practical experience with CIS Benchmarks and secure application configuration
• Familiarity with Defence Secure by Design principles
• Proficiency in Azure DevOps and CI/CD practices
• ArchiMate modelling; BizzDesign Enterprise Studio experience desirable
• Excellent stakeholder communication skills up to senior/executive level

Rate: £625 a day

Location: Reading - full time on site

Duration: 6 months +

Clearance: UKSV DV Clearance required

A leading global technology consultancy is looking for an experienced Application & Data Architect to join a high-profile Defence programme within a Joint Design Team.

This is a hands-on senior architecture role at the heart of a complex, secure delivery environment - shaping how applications are designed, assessed, and evolved across a significant enterprise estate.

The Role

You’ll lead the design and technical assurance of secure-by-design application and data architectures, owning architectural decisions across software systems of varying scale and risk. Day-to-day you’ll conduct application technical assessments, engage directly with delivery teams and senior stakeholders, and help drive long-term architectural direction while addressing immediate backlog priorities.

What You’ll Need

• Strong enterprise application architecture experience in secure or Defence environments
• Hands-on knowledge of COTS/GOTS products, Middleware, integration, and databases
• Practical experience with CIS Benchmarks and secure application configuration
• Familiarity with Defence Secure by Design principles
• Proficiency in Azure DevOps and CI/CD practices
• ArchiMate modelling; BizzDesign Enterprise Studio experience desirable
• Excellent stakeholder communication skills up to senior/executive level

3-Month contract - Inside IR35 - up to £650 per day

London based - hybrid working - 2/3 days on site

Insurance sector

Roles & Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end architecture for solutions built on Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI).
• Design scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions aligned with Microsoft best practices.
• Architect integrations with Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Azure services, Dataverse, and third-party systems.
• Establish solution patterns, reusable components, and reference architectures
• TOGAF or similar qualification
• Develop and implement Power Platform governance frameworks (environment strategy, DLP policies, security model).

Skills & Experience

7+ years of IT experience, with 3+ years focused on Microsoft Power Platform.

Deep expertise in:

• Power Apps (Canvas & Model-Driven Apps)
• Power Automate (Cloud & Desktop flows)
• Power BI
• Dataverse
• Power Platform governance & security

Strong understanding of:

• Azure services (Azure Functions, Logic Apps, API Management, Service Bus)
• Microsoft 365 ecosystem
• REST APIs and custom connectors
• Identity & access management (Azure AD/Entra ID)
• Experience implementing ALM using Azure DevOps or GitHub.
• API integration to external systems

Domain Knowledge:

• Knowledge of Insurance domain and specialty insurance
• Underwriting workbench or similar experience desirable
• Knowledge of Policy Admin, Claims platform integration
• Strong knowledge of solution architecture patterns and integration design.

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited (“ARM”). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.

Location: Knutsford or Northampton (Hybrid)

Join a leading tech-driven organisation as a Solution Architect, shaping and delivering modern, scalable systems that drive innovation and business transformation.

What you’ll do:

• Design and implement secure, resilient cloud and distributed solutions.
• Leverage AWS/Azure/GCP, containerisation, and serverless technologies.
• Balance business needs, risk, and technical trade-offs to deliver real value.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define strategy and architectural direction.
• Guide and mentor teams, driving best practice and technical excellence.

What you’ll bring:

• Proven experience architecting modern distributed systems.
• Strong stakeholder management and problem-solving skills.
• Hands-on cloud architecture experience (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Background in financial services (desirable).

A great opportunity to lead strategic technology change and shape the future of enterprise architecture.

We’re looking for a Digital Architect to help shape and govern digital solutions that deliver exceptional customer experiences and power a large-scale digital transformation.

You’ll work in a fast-moving, agile environment, collaborating closely with product, engineering, and delivery teams to design digital services that are scalable, secure, and built to perform.

What you’ll be doing

• Designing and governing modern digital applications and services that promote a strong digital culture
• Working with internal teams and external partners to ensure solutions align with agreed architectural principles and standards
• Supporting product teams with pragmatic, business-focused technical solutions
• Ensuring all designs align with the wider enterprise architecture vision and governance frameworks
• Championing modern engineering practices, including test-driven and behaviour-driven development

What you’ll bring

• Proven experience designing and architecting digital solutions, ideally in complex or large-scale environments
• Strong knowledge of mobile platforms, CRM, eCommerce, and cloud technologies (Azure and/or AWS)
• Experience with microservices architecture, APIs, and recognised architecture frameworks (eg TOGAF)
• A solid understanding of GDPR, data protection, and cyber security principles
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Travel 1-2 times a week to Burton on Trent

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason, please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.

Network IT is currently recruiting for a Lead Security Architect, on behalf of our client in Milton Keynes.

This is a 12 month initial contract, to provide Security Architecture expertise to a client who are undergoing a busy period, and require additional security expertise to drive projects forward, supporting the business and the wider security team.

Our client is looking for an experienced IT Security professional, who can contribute to designs, policies, procedures and implementations across technology, generally being able to face off with a wide variety of security challenges, in a sector which requires particular attention to security threats.

Particular areas of interest would be experience in the security architecture underpinning cross domain connectivity, data sharing and IT platforms.

Please note that this is an onsite role, due to the nature of the security clearance requirements.

Key Information:
Role: Lead Security Architect
Duration: 12 Months
Rate: (Apply online only) per day
Status: Inside IR35
Location: Milton Keynes
Working Pattern: Onsite

Key Skills:

• Strong background in Security Architecture, particularly within government
• Wide security knowledge of IT risks, cyber security, software, data and SOC
• Understanding of security protocols, cryptography and implementing MFA
• Understanding of frameworks, such as ISO27001
• Previous exposure to working on security underpinning cross domain connectivity and data sharing
• Contribution to design activity, policies and procedures
• Able to interface effectively with stakeholders, and other teams in security to effectively drive forward change
• Must be eligible for, or holding SC Clearance
• DV clearance would be nice to have

We’re on the lookout for a job runner - be you a Senior Technologist or Architect with proven ability to manage your own clients and workload, run projects through to their practical completion, and enjoy doing it!

What’s on offer?

• A secure business that’s well run, expanding and have never made redundancies. In these days of questionable job security, this is a must have.
• A varied and interesting workload - from high rise residential, to smaller commercial schemes, and conservation, they guarantee you’ll not get bored.
• Career progression - there are several examples of the rapid rise through the ranks of their staff. From recently qualified to Director in 8 short years being one of them.
• A lovely office in South Manchester near Stockport, with free parking and nearby to a metrolink stop. Commuting isn’t a problem, and they can be flexible with start and finish times to make life easier.
• They listen to their staff - hybrid working is on the agenda. As they continue to grow, there is less need for everyone to be in the office all the time, and it makes sense to offer an increased degree of flexibility for those who want it.
• Pretty sure they have some of the best coffee in Manchester.

London - Hybrid (1 day per week onsite)
Up to 95,000 + Excellent Benefits
Permanent

We are working with a leading professional services organisation seeking a Solutions Architect to join their growing digital and technology function.

The organisation is currently delivering a significant technology and digital transformation programme, and this role will play a key part in shaping the architecture and solutions that support long-term strategic growth.

You will collaborate with business leaders and technical teams to design scalable, secure and integrated solutions that drive operational efficiency and support innovation across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and deliver scalable, secure technology solutions aligned with organisational strategy
• Translate business requirements into robust solution architectures
• Lead architecture design across cloud platforms, SaaS applications and integrations
• Work with delivery teams to ensure architectural standards and best practices are followed
• Engage with stakeholders across the organisation to ensure solutions meet business needs
• Support the delivery of key digital transformation initiatives
• Ensure systems are secure, resilient and well integrated

Skills & Experience

• Experience as a Solutions Architect, Technical Architect or Senior Developer
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure cloud technologies
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 / CRM platforms (desirable)
• Experience designing integration solutions across SaaS platforms
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and modern delivery approaches
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills

Benefits

• Up to 95,000 salary
• Hybrid working - 1 day per week onsite in London
• 30 days annual leave
• 10% employer pension contribution
• Healthcare cash plan
• Life assurance
• Flexible working environment
• Modern central London office

Enterprise Architect - Critical National Infrastructure, SaaS, Digital
Up to 725 per day (Inside IR35)
Hybrid (Primarily Remote)
6 months

My client is a high-profile consultancy who are seeking an exceptional Enterprise Architect / Lead Solutions Architect to support a large-scale Strategic Infrastructure Programme for an instantly recognisable end client.

Key Requirements:

• Strong background as an Enterprise Architect / Lead Solutions Architect in complex, multi stakeholder programmes

• Experience in Critical National Infrastructure (CNI), within the Energy / Utilities (or equivalent) sector(s)

• Proven ability to drive Architectural discovery across capabilities, NFRs, integrations and data flows

• Excellent communication and leadership skills with experience influencing senior audiences

• Strong analytical and documentation skills with a proven ability to deliver at pace

• Experience collaborating with security SMEs to ensure alignment with enterprise security controls

• Ability to interpret vendor and organisational technology roadmaps to inform architectural direction

• Flexibility towards hybrid working

  Nice to have:

• Ideally from a Software, SaaS or Digital Technology background

• Prior involvement in Digital Transformation discovery phases or complex systems landscapes

• Immediate availability

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Job Title: AEP Enterprise Architect
Location: Shoreditch (Hybrid/Remote)
Duration: 6 months contract initially
Max. Budget: £760 per day Inside IR35

The Opportunity:
The Enterprise Architect (EA) serves as the primary technical driver for closing sales opportunities and supporting existing customer success with their marketing technology programs through value realization.

For client’s Top 50 customers, the EA engages with customer Technical, Marketing and C-Suite teams in evaluation of current-state technology and business objectives to deliver future-state marketing technical architectures, digital engagement roadmap management and Art of the Possible digital experiences.

Skills that Set You Apart:
One or more current Adobe Certified Expert certifications in Adobe (AEP, AJO, Analytics/CJA, RTCDP, Target or Workfront)
Recent experience building enterprise level return on investment focused Business Cases for technology transformations
Hands-on experience architecting and/or delivering native, Flutter or React-Native mobile applications
Experience leading a revenue focused Book of Business including sales pipeline via Salesforce/Microsoft Dynamics, scope/contract review and Value Realization measurement.
Familiarity and usage of generative AI solutions.

Minimum Qualifications:
Past experience in a consultative role supporting large-scale enterprise digital marketing ecosystems in the role of Architect/Principal Consultant or employee Marketing/Technical leader.
Working knowledge of end-to-end digital marketing journey including Adtech (CDP/DMPs, DSPs, etc.), Marketing Automation, omni-channel personalization, Content Management/Generation, CRM, Media Execution and Reporting/Insights.
Significant hands-on experience using enterprise platforms (Adobe, Salesforce, Oracle, Microsoft, etc.) with an emphasis on REST APIs, Cloud Storage, Structured/Unstructured Data, Security and Data Ingress/Egress.
Ability to communicate complex ideas which tells a story to support Adobe’s POV and/or recommendation to technical, marketing and C-Suite audiences
Ability to quickly diagnose challenges and opportunities and produce a future state architecture.
Strong written and verbal communications skills with particular expertise in PowerPoint and Lucid Chart/Visio
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (CS), Digital Marketing or MBA or equivalent experience
TOGAF Certified Professionals preferred.

If you are interested in this position and would like to learn more, please send through your CV and we will get in touch with you as soon as possible. Please note, candidates are often Shortlisted within 48 hours.

Initial 6-month Contract Role
Fully Remote
650 - 780, Inside IR35

We’re recruiting for an experience Business Architect to support the development of Cyber Security operating models within a large enterprise environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and document business architecture for Cyber Security capabilities.
• Create capability maps, capability models, and operating model views.
• Map current and target-state value streams across cyber defence and vulnerability management.
• Identify capability gaps, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities.
• Support the design of cyber target operating models and capability roadmaps.
• Facilitate workshops and collaborate with cyber, technology, risk, and architecture stakeholders.
• Produce architecture artefacts including capability maps, value stream diagrams, and operating model documentation.

Required Experience:

• Proven experience as a Business Architect or Enterprise Architect within financial services or global banking (essential)
• Experience working across Cyber Security domains including Vulnerability Management, Cyber Defence, Security Operations, and Threat Management
• Familiarity with business architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF)
• Strong capability modelling and value stream mapping experience in complex organisations.

ECS Recruitment Group Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Hybrid - UK (London, Oxford or Edinburgh offices)
Salary up to 90,000 + excellent benefits

Applause IT are hiring an experienced Head of Technology Architecture to lead the evolution of enterprise technology architecture within a nationally recognised professional organisation undergoing significant transformation.

This role will play a key part in modernising a complex technology environment, improving integration between platforms, strengthening data architecture, and shaping a clear long-term technology roadmap.

The organisation currently operates a diverse technology estate supporting membership services, learning and examinations, digital platforms and internal business operations. The Head of Technology Architecture will be responsible for creating a coherent architectural approach across these platforms while ensuring systems remain secure, reliable and scalable.

Working closely with the Business Transformation leadership team, the Head of Technology Architecture will help rationalise systems, establish architectural standards and guide technology investment decisions that support the organisation’s long-term strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and lead the organisation’s enterprise technology architecture strategy
• Design and govern the target-state application and integration architecture
• Rationalise a fragmented application landscape and improve system integration
• Introduce strong architectural principles, standards and governance
• Lead the design of integration approaches including API-led architectures
• Establish robust data architecture practices including data governance and common data models
• Oversee cloud and infrastructure architecture to ensure resilience and scalability
• Provide architectural oversight of security frameworks and technology risk
• Lead architectural due diligence during technology procurements
• Manage strategic supplier relationships and ensure technology platforms align with long-term strategy

Technology Environment

The organisation operates a varied enterprise technology landscape including:

• CRM and membership platforms
• Learning and examination systems
• Finance and business systems
• Digital platforms and websites
• Data and reporting environments
• Cloud infrastructure and identity services

A key focus of the Head of Technology Architecture will be improving integration between systems, simplifying the technology estate and ensuring reliable, high-quality data across platforms.

About You

We are seeking a senior technology professional with strong enterprise architecture experience and the ability to operate at both strategic and practical levels.

You may currently work as a Lead Enterprise Architect, Principal Architect, Head of Architecture, or similar role where you have shaped technology architecture across complex environments.

Key experience includes:

• Strong experience in enterprise or technology architecture
• Experience designing integration architectures and API strategies
• Understanding of data architecture and data governance practices
• Experience working with cloud-based technology environments
• Knowledge of identity, security and enterprise platform design
• Experience working within multi-vendor technology environments
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior leaders

This is an excellent opportunity for a Head of Technology Architecture to join an organisation undertaking major transformation, where you will have the opportunity to shape the future technology landscape and deliver meaningful change across enterprise systems.

If you are interested in this Head of Technology Architecture opportunity, click apply now.

The Opportunity We are building the operating system for global fresh produce trading — a platform that connects growers, packhouses, logistics providers, and retailers onto a single screen, replacing fragmented spreadsheets, emails, and phone calls with real-time data, rules-based automation, and intelligent agents. CropFlo is powered by Good Produce, a leading grower-importer of table grapes supplying major UK and EU retailers. With deep roots in the global supply chain — from vineyards in Namibia, South Africa, Italy, Egypt, and Brazil through to retail shelves in the UK and Europe — the team behind CropFlo has lived the inefficiencies this platform is designed to solve. This is not a tech company guessing at an industry problem; it is an industry operator building the tool the sector has been waiting for. The platform covers 33 core processes across four pillars: Supply Commitment, Demand Commitment, Allocation Engine, and Compliance, Risk & Settlement. It is designed to handle everything from crop planning and quality monitoring through to multi-leg logistics, pack-to-stock decisions, and automated settlement. We are in active conversations with major UK and EU retailers who have confirmed that this is the platform they expected to have to build themselves. We are now looking for a Founding System Architect to take the functional architecture and turn it into a working product. What You Will Do In the first 6 months, you will: • Translate the existing functional requirements document (33 processes, 4 pillars, modular access model) into a technical architecture and data model. • Make the core technology decisions: stack, infrastructure, database design, real-time data layer, and API structure. • Build the beta from Process 19 onwards — the core trading and allocation engine that sits at the heart of the platform. During the 12-month beta, the earlier processes (1–18) covering supply commitment, crop planning, and quality monitoring will be formally architected and written up ready for development. • Design and implement the modular access system where each process functions as a self- contained module assignable to any user with configurable input and visibility permissions. Beyond the first 6 months, you will: • Architect the multi-leg logistics layer (5 legs per shipment, configurable responsibility matrix, haulier/carrier booking facilitation). • Build the settlement and cash position engine with automated reconciliation. • Design and deploy AI agents for quality triage, demand-supply matching, waste prediction, and temporary specification facilitation. • Own the technical roadmap and make build-vs-buy decisions across the platform. What We Are Looking For Essential Experience • You have built a multi-sided platform — a system where different user types (e.g. suppliers, buyers, logistics providers) interact with shared data through different views and permissions. Marketplaces, supply chain platforms, logistics systems, or commodity trading platforms all count. • You are a full-stack builder who is comfortable working across frontend (React or equivalent), backend (Node.js or Python), relational databases (PostgreSQL or similar), and cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP). • You understand real-time data: websockets, event-driven architecture, live dashboards. The platform’s quality alerts, pack rates, and logistics tracking all update in real time. • You can design a clean data model for complex relational structures — programmes, contracts, allocations, container assignments, multi-party logistics, and settlement flows. Fresh produce is an industry full of “ifs” and “buts” — exceptions, conditional logic, and edge cases at every step — and the data model needs to govern all of it. • You can set technical standards, define coding conventions, and establish the engineering practices that a future team will follow. Strongly Preferred • Experience in agri-tech, food supply chain, logistics technology, or commodity trading platforms. You understand perishable goods, time-sensitive supply chains, and multi-party commercial workflows. • Familiarity with AI/ML integration at the application layer — not necessarily building models from scratch, but using APIs (like Anthropic’s) to build intelligent features into a product. • Experience designing modular, permission-based systems where functionality can be assigned and configured per user or role.