Solution Architect (Higher Education) Rate - 625 (a day)Duration - 6 months (initially)Location - Manchester (Hybrid)Ir35 - Inside (Must use an umbrella company) We are looking to appoint a Solution Architect to work with our existing architecture team within ITS Strategy and Architecture. The team is responsible for architectural design and governance, and translating ITS strategy into design principles, standards and guidance. It leads the definition and shaping understanding of IT need. ITS Strategy and Architecture is a specialised team with roles across information architecture, solution architecture, business analysis, and business architecture. Colleague and Student Compute Delivering an improved experience for students in the PC cluster environments and a more robust service for colleagues.Expanding services offering increased flexibility and remote access to Teaching and Learning softwareDocumented designs and processes for new and existing services within Colleague and Student computingStronger links between IT Services and the Teaching and Learning community for colleague and student computing services. Environments: Delivering on-demand, high availability, reusable, stable and managed environments utilising industry-standard tools.On-demand and Automated builds for environments for our core systems.Improved release management and data obfuscation technologies and processes.Robust guidelines, standards and governanceDelivering a Privileged Access Management (PAM) ..... full job details .....