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.

Role: Integration Architect - Mulesoft
Location: Hybrid (UK)
Contract Length: 6 months (with extension potential)
Security Clearance: CTC mandatory due to central government project work
Day Rate: Competitive (circa £553/day depending on experience)

My client is seeking an experienced Integration Architect to support a major transformation programme within a central government environment. Due to the highly sensitive nature of the data involved, the successful candidate must be eligible for - or already hold - CTC security clearance.

In this role, you will lead the design, governance, and delivery of API-led integrations across a complex enterprise landscape. You will work closely with solution architects, business analysts, SMEs, and delivery teams to ensure secure, scalable, and maintainable integration patterns aligned to my clients standards and government-grade security protocols.

Key Responsibilities

Integration & API Architecture

• Lead end-to-end API and interface architecture for internal systems and external third-party applications.
• Produce detailed API specifications, canonical data models, and interface contracts.
• Design and document push/pull workflows, synchronisation logic, and integration business rules.
• Define API SLAs, RPO/RTO targets, and operational design standards

MuleSoft Solution Architecture

• Provide architectural leadership across the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform (API Manager, Exchange, flows, policies, pipelines).
• Design modular, reusable API-led connectivity (System, Process, Experience APIs).
• Oversee development, conduct design reviews, and ensure compliance with integration standards.
• Apply best-practice integration patterns including orchestration, mapping, error-handling, and observability.

Security & Compliance

• Apply robust API security controls including OAuth2, JWT, TLS 1.2+, zero-trust patterns and IP allow-listing.
• Ensure alignment with ISO27001, Cyber Essentials+, secure SDLC and audit requirements.
• Support secure design reviews, threat modelling and risk assessments.

Data, ETL & System Integration

• Support system testing, data loads, reporting validation and end-to-end integration testing.
• Strong understanding of ETL, data modelling, IDocs, JSON/XML schemas, and event-driven architecture.

What You Bring

• 5-10+ years in integration architecture and enterprise integration patterns.
• 3-5+ years hands-on experience with MuleSoft Anypoint Platform.
• Strong knowledge of RAML/OpenAPI, data contracts, async APIs, and canonical modelling.
• Experience integrating with ERP/CAFM/field applications (Planon experience advantageous).
• Understanding of batch, synchronous, and Real Time integrations.
• Familiarity with SAP BTP, CPI, and broader enterprise landscapes is highly beneficial.
• Excellent documentation, governance and stakeholder-facing communication skills.
• Desirable certifications: MuleSoft Integration Architect, TOGAF, or equivalent.

If you are available and interested, please apply today!

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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

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

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.

We are a Global Recruitment specialist that provides support to the clients across EMEA, APAC, US and Canada. We have an excellent job opportunity for you.

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.

3-month contract (possible extension)

£700-£800 per day (Inside IR35)
Hybrid - London, Glasgow or Cardiff
Must hold valid SC clearance

A major UK public sector organisation is seeking an experienced Senior Technical Architect (Salesforce) to lead the design, assurance, and governance of Salesforce-based solutions across multiple workstreams. This role sits within a large digital transformation programme, supporting secure, scalable, user-centric services that integrate with wider enterprise platforms.

Role Overview

You will be responsible for defining and assuring technical designs across multiple Salesforce clouds and domains, ensuring solutions are secure, robust, scalable, and aligned to organisational architecture standards. The role involves guiding engineering teams, influencing technical direction, and ensuring high-quality delivery across complex programmes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and documentation of multi-cloud Salesforce solutions aligned with architectural, security, and data standards.
• Provide technical assurance across all Salesforce implementations and integrations.
• Define integration patterns using APIs, Middleware, and reusable services.
• Collaborate with data, security, engineering, and delivery teams to ensure platform consistency and interoperability.
• Mentor architects and engineers, contributing to a Salesforce Centre of Excellence.
• Support governance processes, design reviews, and risk/impact assessments.
• Develop reusable patterns, templates, and architectural artefacts.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong experience designing and leading Salesforce solutions across multiple clouds (Service, Experience, Public Sector Solutions, Core Platform).
• Deep understanding of API-led integrations, Middleware, and enterprise data flows.
• Ability to create and maintain architecture artefacts using Archi, ArchiMate, UML, or equivalent frameworks.
• Strong grounding in secure design principles, data governance, and risk-based assurance.
• Experience influencing technical decisions across delivery teams and large programmes.
• Valid SC clearance (mandatory).
• Professional certifications such as:
  • Salesforce Technical Architect (or equivalent senior Salesforce certifications)
  • Architectural qualifications (BCS, TOGAF, Zachman, or equivalent)

Desirable

• Experience working within government or public-sector digital standards and assurance frameworks.

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. 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.

GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Location: Harlow, Essex (3 days per week onsite)

Duration: 12-month contract

Inside IR35

Role details:
Our client, a leading organisation in the Defence & Security sector, is currently seeking a highly skilled IT Solution Architect for a contract position. This role offers hybrid working based out of Harlow, with an expectation of at least 3 days a week onsite.

We require a candidate holding active SC clearance.

Key Responsibilities:

We are seeking a highly skilled Solution Architect to join our clients Architecture Team within the Digital Technology function. This role will be a key contributor to a major global ERP and connected systems transformation programme, operating in a highly regulated environment.

Working under the direction of the Lead Architect, the Solution Architect will serve as a trusted point of reference for the programme, helping translate business vision into robust technology designs while ensuring architectural coherence across applications, data, security, and integration landscapes.

Architecture & Design:-

• Develop high-quality solution architectures that align with enterprise standards and support the global ERP transformation and its connected systems.
• Ensure solutions meet functional and non-functional requirements, including performance, scalability, availability, and regulatory compliance.
• Produce architecture artefacts such as logical and physical diagrams, design decisions, roadmaps, and interface specifications.

Collaboration & Technical Leadership:-

• Work closely with the Lead Architect to ensure architectural consistency and alignment with strategic
• technology direction.
• Act as a point of architectural guidance for programme teams - clarifying solution intent, resolving design queries, and managing architectural risks.
• Engage business stakeholders, product owners, engineering teams, vendors, and security partners to ensure clarity and buy-in for architectural outcomes.

Data & Security:-

• Ensure data flows, data models, and data governance requirements are well understood and appropriately addressed in solution designs.
• Embed security-by-design principles, working with cybersecurity teams to ensure compliance with regulatory and internal security frameworks.
• Identify and mitigate risks related to privacy, data protection, and system integrity.

Integration & Connected Systems:-

• Design integration patterns for ERP and satellite systems using modern integration platforms, APIs, messaging, and workflow capabilities.
• Ensure end-to-end process coherence across ERP and connected applications (e.g., HRIS, CRM, manufacturing systems, reporting platforms).

Governance & Compliance:-

• Apply enterprise architecture principles (TOGAF or similar) to ensure traceability, alignment, and structured decision-making.
• Support architecture governance forums, design reviews, and adherence to architectural standards.
• Ensure solutions meet the requirements of a highly regulated environment, including auditability, traceability, and compliance.

What we are looking for in you:

Essential:-

• Active SC clearance
• Proven experience as a Solution Architect working on large-scale transformation programmes, ideally global and multi-year.
• Strong understanding of ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Dynamics) and their integration across the enterprise ecosystem.
• Competence with enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, SAFe, or equivalent.
• Demonstrable experience in:
  • Application architecture
  • Data architecture, governance, and modelling
  • Security architecture fundamentals
  • API and integration architecture
• Experience working in highly regulated sectors.
• Ability to create clear, concise architectural documentation and communicate complex concepts to diverse stakeholders.

Desirable skills:-

• Experience in cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP) relevant to ERP and integration workloads.
• Familiarity with global operating models and distributed delivery teams.

If you are an experienced Solution Architect looking to make an impact within a highly regulated environment, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to take on this exciting opportunity.

Summer-Browning Associates is currently supporting our central government client, who is seeking a Security Architect. This position is for an initial 12-month contract assignment, with the possibility of extension.

Location: London

The ideal candidate will hold an active security clearance and have a strong background in Security Architecture, along with the following skills and experience:

• A solid understanding of High-Level Security Architecture (HLD) and a secure-by-design approach.
• Experience leading security architecture for large-scale cloud hosting (specifically Azure and GCP) in high-threat government Tier 2 secure environments.
• Extensive knowledge of security architecture, including identity management, device security, workstation protection, cloud hosting, collaboration tools, networking, cryptography, operations, and data governance.
• Strong understanding of secure DevOps practices, CI/CD controls, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) hardening.
• Experience applying security controls to AI and machine learning components,
• Demonstrable knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks and standards, including the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework, ISO 27001, NIST, COBIT, as well as SABSA and TOGAF. -
• Preferred Qualifications: Industry certifications such as CompTIA Security+, CISSP, CISM, CEH, or GIAC are highly desirable.

To apply, please submit your latest CV for review.

Summer-Browning Associates is currently supporting our central government client, who is seeking an Enterprise Architect. This position is for an initial 12-month contract assignment, with the possibility of extension.

Location: London

The ideal candidate will hold an active security clearance and have a strong background in Enterprise Architecture, along with the following skills and experience:

• Extensive experience in developing Enterprise Architectural strategies, leading design authorities, and implementing architectural governance.
• Proven track record in leading enterprise architecture for large-scale cloud hosting, specifically in Azure and GCP, within high-security government Tier 2 environments.
• In-depth knowledge of cloud architecture, including IAM, identity federation, cryptography, network segmentation, and high-assurance gateways.
• Proven ability to lead enterprise design across all domains, including Data, Digital, Security, and Technical areas.
• Proficiency in Secure by Design principles and IT security documentation, including policies, standards, processes, procedures, and patterns.
• Demonstrable knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks and standards, including the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework, ISO 27001, NIST, COBIT, as well as SABSA and TOGAF.

To apply, please submit your latest CV for review.

Ideas | People | Trust

We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today’s changing world.

We work with the companies that are Britain’s economic engine - ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high-growth businesses that fuel the economy - and directly advise the owners and management teams that lead them.

We’ll broaden your horizons

To ensure our services and applications are fit for the modern market, our IT team collaborates with every department. They develop, they explore and they implement the new ideas helping us to change the future of accounting, tax and business consulting. But, just as importantly, they maintain the tech that keeps us advancing. By testing and adopting the future of financial technical solutions, they find new and exciting ways to drive us forward. And you could too. In an IT role at BDO, you’ll become part of a team that act as the backbone for our business. No matter who you are or what your skillset is, we’ll give you the training and support you need to achieve whatever you put your mind to.

We’ll help you succeed

Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with them and building long-lasting relationships.

You’ll be someone who is both comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO’s partners to help businesses effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.

Reporting into the IT Architecture team, the purpose of this role is to lead in designing, planning, and delivering solutions in collaboration with our Innovation & Digital Office and the business streams. Some of these solutions will be derived from innovation ideas that are being generated within the business. You’ll work closely with other Architects, and Innovation Managers to ensure new solutions address a business problem whilst adhering to our architectural design and enterprise strategy.

In order to accelerate time to market, you will utilise approaches such as buy before build and a rapid agile delivery. Using both minimum viable product and iterative principals the role is responsible in delivering solutions at speed into the business, utilising a ‘cloud first’ strategy.

You must be both technically proficient and solution focussed, motivated by finding coherent and strategic solutions to complex business. You will have a track record of innovation and be able to demonstrate examples of using creativity and technical knowledge to achieve successful business outcomes through an engaging and consultative approach.

In this role you’ll:

• Be responsible for leading the design, and technical delivery of prototypes and digital products within an agile squad.
• Participate in the discovery of new opportunities, turning problems statements into business outcome driven technical proposals.
• Solve problems using creative approaches and emerging technologies.
• Be comfortable learning, and becoming a subject matter expert within, an assigned business domain.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architects, Integration Architects and Cloud Architects to build coherent systems within our IT environments.
• Work alongside Business Analysts and UX Designers supporting the gathering and validating of requirements, user journeys and user experience.
• Contribute to the growth of the IT Architecture function and its practices, ensuring that Architecture is, and is recognised as, a valuable asset to BDO.
• Contribute and adhere to technical, delivery, and service governance standards whilst designing solutions.
• Adhere to change processes and produce high quality technical documentation.
• You’ll be someone with:
• Exceptional verbal and written communication, including presentation skills. Able to communicate to stakeholders at all levels of the organisation and 3rd parties.

Experience working with the following technologies:

• JavaScript, React, C# .NET, Python, SQL, APIs, Azure, Power Platform, SaaS, PaaS, IaC.
• Exposure to and understanding of emerging technologies e.g. AI, LLMs, Machine Learning, NLP, MCP etc.
• Experience in architecture and software development methodologies, and design techniques e.g. Agile, C4, UML, TOGAF, Microsoft Well-Architected Framework, design patterns.
• Experience using modern tools in support of delivery:
• e.g. Azure DevOps, LeanIX, Lucidchart, Figma, Balsamiq, M365.
• Excellent understanding of public cloud hosted infrastructure and application integrations.
• Experience in building Minimal Viable Products (MVP) and working with product teams.
• Experience evaluating and working with SaaS products.
• You’ll be able to be yourself; we’ll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to the business. We’re committed to agile working, and we offer every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit you, your teams, and the task at hand.
• At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

We’re in it together

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values and we’re proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we’ll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.

Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We know that collaboration is the key to creating value for the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences. With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you’ll never stop learning at BDO.

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Senior Solutions Architect-Perm

Location: Hybrid - Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, London

Security Requirement: Applicants must hold active SC clearance or be eligible to obtain it (UK citizenship and 5 years’ continuous UK residence required).

Our client is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to design and lead end-to-end digital solutions across government, healthcare, and purpose-driven sectors.

You will:

• Own solution design from concept through to delivery.
• Align architecture with business outcomes, technical strategy, and governance.
• Produce clear solution blueprints across business, data, application, and technology domains.
• Engage senior stakeholders and support delivery teams to implement solutions effectively.
• Ensure compliance with security and quality standards.

Role Requirements

• Proven experience performing solutions architecture responsibilities.
• Strong background in software development or technical delivery.
• Experience working in Agile, Scrum, or DevOps environments.
• Knowledge of architecture frameworks and modelling approaches.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and consulting skills.

While not essential, experience with architecture frameworks is beneficial, such as:

• TOGAF
• Zachman
• Open Agile Architecture

We are seeking a high-calibre EUC Solutions Architect (Slack & Google Workspace) to join a major, multi-year transformation programme for a Tier-1 Global Bank. This role is at the heart of a strategic modernisation initiative, focusing on collaboration tool resilience and complex carve-out/separation scenarios.

As the Lead for the collaboration ecosystem, you will sit at the intersection of technology strategy and programme delivery, ensuring the bank maintains a secure, compliant, and scalable posture while transitioning platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Architectural Governance: Serve as the Lead Solutions Architect for all matters related to Google Workspace, Slack Enterprise Grid, and associated integration ecosystems (Identity, Security, Messaging).
• Solution Design: Define future-state collaboration architectures aligned to transformation objectives and enterprise banking standards.
• Discovery & Analysis: Lead technical workshops with CISO, Engineering, and Risk partners to translate business requirements into robust architectural artefacts.
• Integration Patterns: Design complex integration patterns between Slack, Google, and core banking systems (IAM, DLP, Monitoring, and Workflow automation).
• Carve-out Strategy: Provide hands-on guidance for Slack Enterprise Grid configurations and Google sharing controls specifically for divestiture and separation activities.

Essential Experience & Technical Stack

• EUC / Collaboration Architecture: Proven track record of designing and governing large-scale workplace solutions within highly regulated environments (Banking/FS).
• Slack Enterprise Grid: Deep expertise in EKM (Enterprise Key Management), user provisioning, DLP, eDiscovery, and retention compliance.
• Google Workspace: Comprehensive knowledge of Gmail, Drive, Shared Drives, and Admin Console governance.
• Security & Identity: Strong understanding of SAML/OAuth, event frameworks, and API-based automation.
• Programme Experience: Experience working on ‘Carve-outs’ or complex platform migrations is essential.

Desirable Qualifications

• Slack Certified Admin or Consultant.
• Google Workspace Admin or Technology certifications.
• Architectural Frameworks (TOGAF / Zachman).
• Experience with the wider ecosystem (Atlassian, O365, etc.).

Solution Architect - Corporate Systems/Back-office Domain

London - 2-3 days a week onsite

95k- 110k + car allowance + up to 30% bonus

We’re seeking a Corporate Functions Domain Solution Architect to join a FTSE 250 organisation undergoing a major technology transformation under a new CIO. This is a strategic role within a significant, multi-year IT and digital transformation to modernise the organisation’s back-office and corporate systems, enabling greater standardisation, control, insight, and scalability across its global estate.

Role Overview

The Corporate Functions Domain Solution Architect will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering technology solutions across the organisation’s back-office and corporate domains, including Finance, HR, Payroll, Procurement, Legal, and Corporate Services.

This role will focus on architecting scalable, standardised solutions that support a complex, global operating model - balancing global consistency with local regulatory, statutory, and operational requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Solution & Domain Architecture

• Architect end-to-end solutions across corporate and back-office functions, including Finance, HR, Payroll, Procurement, Legal, and related enterprise services.
• Design solutions that support multi-country operations, regulatory compliance, financial controls, and workforce complexity.
• Own solution architecture designs for major corporate systems transformation initiatives, ensuring alignment to business strategy and operational needs.
• Define and maintain target and transitional architectures for corporate systems domains.

Enterprise Architecture & Governance

• Apply TOGAF principles and enterprise architecture standards to guide solution design and technology decisions.
• Work closely with Enterprise Architects to ensure corporate systems align with the broader enterprise architecture and technology roadmap.
• Establish architecture patterns, standards, and guardrails for corporate platforms and shared services systems.

Transformation & Delivery

• Support large-scale IT transformation programmes, including ERP modernisation, HR and payroll transformation, and procurement digitisation.
• Provide architectural governance throughout delivery, ensuring solutions meet quality, security, and scalability requirements.
• Support vendor and partner selection, RFP processes, and solution evaluations.

Required Experience & Skills

Essential

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect or Domain Architect within corporate or back-office systems environments.
• Strong experience architecting solutions across Finance, HR, Payroll, and/or Procurement domains.
• Experience working in large, complex, multi-country organisations.
• TOGAF or similar certification.
• Experience with large-scale ERP and corporate platforms (e.g. SAP S/4HANA, SAP SuccessFactors, Workday, Oracle, Coupa, Ariba, or similar).
• Experience operating within complex, global, multi-brand or multi-entity organisations.

To apply for this great opportunity, please apply with a copy of your latest CV.

Cyber Security Consultant / Security Assurance SME

Summer-Browning Associates is currently supporting our central government client, who is seeking a Cyber Security Consultant for an initial 6 assignments with the option to extend.

Location: London / Milton Keynes / Hybrid / Remote

The ideal candidate will have an active Security clearance and a strong background in Cyber Security Assurance within a high-threat government environment.

Skills and experience.

• Experience in producing GovAssure and Secure-By-Design assessments, including Risk Assessment Papers, Risk Treatment Plans, Risk Business Cases, and Security Management Plans.
• Knowledge and experience with security architecture and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools, such as Splunk, Defender, Sentinel, ELK, and Tenable Threat Modelling System solutions.
• Extensive understanding of cybersecurity threats, attack vectors, vulnerabilities, and security controls.
• Demonstrable knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks and standards, including the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework, ISO 27001, NIST, COBIT, as well as SABSA and TOGAF.
• Experience in risk and threat modelling within high-threat government environments.
• Preferred Qualifications: Industry certifications such as CompTIA Security+, CISSP, CISM, CEH, or GIAC are highly desirable.

Job Title: Solutions Architect - Salesforce

Location: London (Hybrid)
Type: Contract, Full-Time

We are looking for a skilled and experienced Solutions Architect to join a rapidly growing organisation. As a Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for designing and implementing comprehensive solutions that meet our client’s needs and drive their business success.

The ideal candidate will possess extensive knowledge in Customer CRM, Salesforce, Service Cloud, and migration experience.

As a Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for designing and implementing comprehensive solutions that meet our client’s needs and drive their business success.

You will be responsible for the ownership of solution architecture and technical designs within programmes of work.

Key Skills and Experience

• Customer CRM: Proven experience in implementing and managing Customer Relationship Management systems.
• Ideally you have experience in the retail sector.
• Salesforce experience specifically with Service Cloud.
• Service Cloud: Hands-on experience with Salesforce Service Cloud, including setup, configuration, and optimization.
• Knowledge of TOGAF

You must be a team player with the ability to work in a collaborative environment.

If the role is of interest please get across your CV.

Remote - UK

Up to £100,000 + £8,000 car allowance

VIQU have partnered with a leading engineering organisation who are seeking a skilled Dynamics 365 CRM Solutions Architect to lead the design and implementation of CRM and FSM solutions, focusing primarily on Dynamics 365 CE. The successful Dynamics CRM Solutions Architect will play a pivotal role in supporting a major global transformation initiative, driving the migration and optimisation of CRM and FSM solutions across various global locations. As the Dynamics 365 CRM Solution Architect, you will be responsible for defining and overseeing the architecture of the company s CRM and FSM systems, ensuring they align with the organisation’s business needs.

Key Responsibilities of the Dynamics CRM Solutions Architect:

• Lead the design and architecture of Dynamics 365 CRM and FSM solutions, ensuring alignment with strategic business goals and enterprise architecture governance.
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners and key stakeholders to oversee the global deployment of solutions.
• Offer expert guidance on best practices, identifying areas for improvement within CRM/FSM.
• Contribute to the development of business cases and long-term roadmaps for future projects.
• Organise and facilitate solution design workshops, leading discussions to define, evaluate, and document proposed solutions.
• Stay updated on new technologies and trends, recommending system enhancements.
• Lead product demonstrations, working alongside both technical and business teams.

Experience Required of the Dynamics CRM Solutions Architect:

• Extensive experience as a Functional Consultant or Solutions Architect, with a strong focus on Dynamics 365 CRM and FSM.
• Proven leadership experience in managing Dynamics CRM/FSM projects and application development.
• Experience with Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (CE) modules, including Marketing, Sales, Customer Service, and Field Service (Field Service is a bonus).
• CPQ experience would be great but not essential (Configure, Price, Quote).
• In-depth knowledge of Azure and hands-on experience with the implementation of COTS, SaaS, and cloud-based technologies.
• Expertise in designing and developing solutions across multiple platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with global teams.
• Strong understanding of complex organisational structures and the interdependencies between business units.
• Certifications in architecture frameworks, such as TOGAF or Archimate (desired).

To discuss this exciting opportunity in more detail, please APPLY NOW. Alternatively, you can contact Katie Dark directly on (url removed).

If you know someone who would be ideal for this role, by way of showing our appreciation, VIQU is offering an introduction fee up to £1,000 once your referral has successfully started work with our client (terms apply).

Dynamics CRM Solutions Architect

Remote - UK

Up to £100,000 + £8,000 car allowance