We are representing a growing education business who are seeking a Solution Architect to design real-world systems end-to-end.

The ideal person will have a strong engineering background to design solutions across a diverse technology landscape. You’ll be the bridge between business goals and technical execution, shaping solutions that span on-premise platforms, SaaS systems, Azure cloud services, data, identity, and cyber security initiatives.

If you love variety, complexity, and working closely with stakeholders, this is a role for you.

Why This Role?

• Join a small, highly collaborative architecture team;

• Work on meaningful projects: data uplift, finance system uplift, website rebuild, cyber security uplift, SaaS integrations, and more;

• Architect solutions across on-prem (VMware), Azure, and SaaS;

• True variety, large projects, smaller initiatives, and everything in between;

• Hybrid working with two anchor days (Tuesday & Thursday); and

• Salary $180,000 plus + 12.5% super, negotiable for the right candidate.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Design end-to-end solutions across applications, data, integration, security, and infrastructure;

• Develop architecture artefacts including HLDs, LLDs, integration diagrams, data flows, and security patterns;

• Work closely with business stakeholders and a BA to gather requirements and shape solution outcomes;

• Understand on-prem constraints and design practical, achievable, real-world solutions;

• Engage with engineering and operations teams to ensure solutions can be delivered and supported;

• Drive architectural governance, standards, and documentation; and

• Provide expert guidance during delivery phases — without being hands-on coding.

What You Bring

Must-Have

• Strong engineering background (software, systems, or hybrid);

• Proven experience designing on-prem or hybrid solutions;

• Good working knowledge of:

  • VMware / virtualisation;

  • Active Directory / identity;

  • Network fundamentals (routing, firewalls, load balancing, DNS);

  • Azure or AWS cloud services; and

  • SaaS integration patterns.

• Ability to produce high-quality documentation (HLD/LLD, diagrams, reference patterns);

• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills — you can translate tech to business; and

• Experience working across multiple domains (apps, infra, security, data).

Nice to Have

• Experience in mixed or transitional environments (education, government, utilities, enterprise);

• Azure certifications;

• Exposure to tools like Tenable or other security platforms; and

• Experience with data uplift, finance systems, website rebuilds, or cyber uplift projects.

Who Will Succeed Here

This role is perfect for someone who:

• Enjoys breadth over narrow specialisation;

• Has worked in mixed on-prem + cloud environments;

• Thrives in a small team with a lot of variety;

• Can switch between business conversations and technical design;

• Values practicality over theory; and

• Wants to deliver solutions that actually work in the real world.

How to Apply

For more information or a confidential discussion please contact Matt Kirk at u&u on matt.kirk@uandu.com quoting reference number 43404.
 
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