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Principal Solution Architect
akersystems • Remote/Home Based, UK
Posted: April 24, 2026
Job Description
A UK Government Security Check (SC) clearance is required for this role. If you don’t hold SC clearance, we will support you to apply assuming you have lived and worked in the UK for a minimum of 5 years.
Aker Systems deliver secure cloud hosted solutions into the public and private sectors, we are rapidly expanding and are looking to hire a Solution Architect to support our product delivery.
The successful candidate will need to have a good blend of HLD and LLD design experience around Security, Data, Cloud, Service and Solution. You will be seeing designs through from start to finish incorporating everything from technology to solution, assurance, governance, and security (pen testing) - Not from a hands-on perspective but from a design perspective. You will need to be client facing and be able to make complex designs seem simple to customers.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Research and develop high level and detailed solution designs
- Monitor technical deliverables against the designs, manage and report on design divergences
- Contribute to technical Change Requests
- Maintain and monitor solutions against Non-functional requirements, design principles and patterns
- Support solution option analysis and provide architectural recommendations
- Maintain the AsIs design against the build identifying design branches to be included into the core Aker product set
- Capture the technology stack and map to the architecture
- Closely collaborate with and guide the DevOps and application development teams
Core Competencies
- Skilled in designing distributed, event driven systems
- Platform and application development
- Has recently designed services that reside on AWS, Azure, GCP or hybrid environments
- Has the ability to work in and has strong knowledge of agile development and modern CD/CI approaches
- Understands how security design is integrated into the solution design
Will need extensive experience in:
- Delivery - designing, delivering platforms and managed services at enterprise scale, specifically bespoke software solutions, particularly in streaming and cloud-native solutions
- Data - solving enterprise data and analytics problems using technology
- Cloud - hands-on Public Cloud experience in either AWS/Azure/Google, both their 'services' and 'how' to work in the cloud such as DevOps-centric approach
- Security - having worked in sensitive data environments
Additional Content
A UK Government Security Check (SC) clearance is required for this role. If you don’t hold SC clearance, we will support you to apply assuming you have lived and worked in the UK for a minimum of 5 years.
Aker Systems deliver secure cloud hosted solutions into the public and private sectors, we are rapidly expanding and are looking to hire a Solution Architect to support our product delivery.
The successful candidate will need to have a good blend of HLD and LLD design experience around Security, Data, Cloud, Service and Solution. You will be seeing designs through from start to finish incorporating everything from technology to solution, assurance, governance, and security (pen testing) - Not from a hands-on perspective but from a design perspective. You will need to be client facing and be able to make complex designs seem simple to customers.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Research and develop high level and detailed solution designs
- Monitor technical deliverables against the designs, manage and report on design divergences
- Contribute to technical Change Requests
- Maintain and monitor solutions against Non-functional requirements, design principles and patterns
- Support solution option analysis and provide architectural recommendations
- Maintain the AsIs design against the build identifying design branches to be included into the core Aker product set
- Capture the technology stack and map to the architecture
- Closely collaborate with and guide the DevOps and application development teams
Core Competencies
- Skilled in designing distributed, event driven systems
- Platform and application development
- Has recently designed services that reside on AWS, Azure, GCP or hybrid environments
- Has the ability to work in and has strong knowledge of agile development and modern CD/CI approaches
- Understands how security design is integrated into the solution design
Will need extensive experience in:
- Delivery - designing, delivering platforms and managed services at enterprise scale, specifically bespoke software solutions, particularly in streaming and cloud-native solutions
- Data - solving enterprise data and analytics problems using technology
- Cloud - hands-on Public Cloud experience in either AWS/Azure/Google, both their 'services' and 'how' to work in the cloud such as DevOps-centric approach
- Security - having worked in sensitive data environments