Solution Architect - (SC Cleared) - Telecom Networks (Ref: 194051)
hace 7 horas
Sheffield
Title: Solutions Architect (SC Cleared) - Telecom Networks Job Type: Contract Length: Initial 9-12 month contract (strong chance of extending further) Rate: Competitive Contact: The Role As a Solutions Architect, you’ll design scalable, repeatable, and customer-focused technical solutions that align with both business and technology strategy. You’ll play a central role in requirement capture, technical assurance, and decision-making—guiding stakeholders through the full design lifecycle. You’ll act as the IP technical authority, influencing direction, shaping standards, and ensuring that solutions are robust, compliant, and ready for deployment. With a strong focus on quality and operational readiness, you'll produce both High-Level and Low-Level Designs and support the transition into live service. Your work will involve breaking down solutions on a site-by-site basis, producing modular and industrialised configurations, and supporting hands-on build activities where required. What You’ll Be Doing • Capturing, analysing, and translating customer requirements into scalable, repeatable solutions, • Producing detailed HLDs and LLDs for customer deployments, • Providing technical sign-off across solution design, testing strategy, and operational handover, • Acting as the IP technical authority, guiding customers and stakeholders through decision-making, • Designing solutions using templated, modular, and industrialised approaches, • Supporting hands-on build activities and assisting the network design team, • Ensuring designs meet quality standards and operational expectations, • Influencing project direction to align with technical principles and best practices What You’ll Bring • Excellent presentation, communication, and problem-solving capabilities, • Self-starter mindset with the ability to take ownership and deliver under pressure, • Ability to produce complex HLD and LLD documentation Strong technical knowledge of: • Layer 2/3 networking, • IP networking and routing protocols, • MPLS, load balancing, Radio technologies, • Legacy technologies (SDH, PDH, ISDN), • Firewall and security technologies, • IP and Data Centre expertise (essential), • Classic Cisco networking skills, ideally with CCNP-level knowledge, • Data centre experience (preferably Cisco UCS / 9571K environments), • Experience working with Telecom networks, • Ability to break down complex architectures into site-by-site deliverables, • 2+ years into your Solutions Architect career with growing autonomy, • Strong knowledge transfer and mentoring skills, • Hands-on build experience and willingness to “roll up your sleeves” Security Requirements • MOD SC clearance (mandatory), • Contractors must hold SE clearance (preferably via MOD or DESNZ), • Ability to pass BS 7858 vetting as part of onboarding