Solutions Architect
Company
Location
United Kingdom
Posted At
6/20/2025
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Description
Job Description
We have a great opportunity for a number of digitally skilled, Solution Architects with business domain experience, to design and assure digital solutions that enable, support and improve people's lives across multiple industry sectors supported by Costain.
This role will be involved in supporting various Internal Costain, Customers as well as Government Departments and associated arms length organisations. Client facing skills and stakeholder management are therefore critical 'must have' skills. You must prepared to be Security Cleared to relevant levels if not already held or transferable. (BPSS or SC)
You could be involved in all areas of our business and industry sectors - Government, Transport, Utilities, Carbon Capture and Digital Twin initiatives.
Skills needed for this role (Relevant skill level: SFIA 5-7)
The Solution Architect has end to end accountability to design all IS initiatives, and takes full ownership for the design and the design governance of solutions.
Takes Accountability For Solution Design
Provide a collaborative work environment that enables a fluid interaction among the team and with clients, partners and other key stakeholders. Upholds Costain values and behaviours.
Responsibilities
The Solution Architect operates in a delivery phase of project, taking conceptual architectures from the Enterprise Architect and produces logical designs to be built, making sure the strategy is followed. At this level, you will:
Desirable
Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase.
We do share individual feedback following an interview .
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.
It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign
We have a great opportunity for a number of digitally skilled, Solution Architects with business domain experience, to design and assure digital solutions that enable, support and improve people's lives across multiple industry sectors supported by Costain.
This role will be involved in supporting various Internal Costain, Customers as well as Government Departments and associated arms length organisations. Client facing skills and stakeholder management are therefore critical 'must have' skills. You must prepared to be Security Cleared to relevant levels if not already held or transferable. (BPSS or SC)
You could be involved in all areas of our business and industry sectors - Government, Transport, Utilities, Carbon Capture and Digital Twin initiatives.
Skills needed for this role (Relevant skill level: SFIA 5-7)
The Solution Architect has end to end accountability to design all IS initiatives, and takes full ownership for the design and the design governance of solutions.
Takes Accountability For Solution Design
- Designing solutions to meet specific business needs, following strategic direction/principles and utilising standards, patterns and policies
- Understands business requirements and together with functional stakeholders create and curate design deliverables as the project directs
- Contributes to technology strategy and application roadmap / standards
- Designs solutions with architecture guidelines, build/buy and continuously evolve solutions
- Ensures proper project governance is in place and design authority validation
- Technical dependency oversight and escalation to project managers and architecture governance
- Champion reusable designs and ensures proper integration or new and retirement of legacy solutions
- Ensure design documents reflect what was built as part of hand over to support
- Ensure that data and information architecture is developed and maintained.
Provide a collaborative work environment that enables a fluid interaction among the team and with clients, partners and other key stakeholders. Upholds Costain values and behaviours.
Responsibilities
The Solution Architect operates in a delivery phase of project, taking conceptual architectures from the Enterprise Architect and produces logical designs to be built, making sure the strategy is followed. At this level, you will:
- Network and communicate with senior stakeholders across supplier and customer organisations, and proactively seek out opportunities for digital transformation.
- Maintains standards and principles as part of the architectural governance framework Partners in business processes and technology solutions, highlighting opportunities to improve business performance
- Proactively proposes value recommendation to business, facilitates value creation with innovation team E
- Estimates technology costs for solution options and provides guidance on optioneering
- Coordinate multiple teams, finding and using best practice and emerging technologies.
- Inspire other architects and help them understand how to deliver the goals of the organisation.
- Be responsible for adhering to governance frameworks, solving complex and high-risk issues or delivering architecture designs.
- Identify existing patterns for reuse, new patterns to add to the approved design framework and where novel, bespoke designs are appropriate.
- Ensure cyber security and other policies are followed.
- Delivering designs that are traceable and meet the project requirements.
Desirable
- TOGAF
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
- Microsoft Azure Advance
- CISSP certified, or equivalent certification, NIST Cyber Security Framework, ISF Standard),
- GIAC or CompTIA Security+ (or equivalent).
Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase.
We do share individual feedback following an interview .
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.
It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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