Platform Solution Architect – Part time
Summary
Part-time contract (Inside IR35, Nov 2026–Jan 2027) Platform Solution Architect with Deloitte Operations, working remotely for one of its clients. The architect designs and assures shared Azure foundation services — identity, networking, observability, security — producing blueprints, guardrails, and cross-component architectural decisions.
Role: Platform Solution Architect
– Part time
Location: Remote
Start Date: November 2026
End Date: 31st January 2027
Daily Rate: Inside IR35
Payroll
provider – Rockford Payroll Info for
Contingent Workers – Rockford Pay
This is an exciting opportunity to join Deloitte
Operations for an engagement with one of our clients.
The Role
We are seeking an experienced Foundation Platform Solution Architect to
design and assure shared Azure foundations across identity, networking,
observability, security, and reusable platform services.
About the Role
In this role, you will produce platform blueprints and guardrails,
resolve cross-component design decisions, and assure implementation against
enterprise standards. You will work closely with business SMEs, security, data,
engineering, and operations teams to evaluate options, document decisions, and
ensure detailed designs are aligned to the wider target architecture.
Key Responsibilities
· Design shared Azure foundation services covering identity, networking,
observability, security, and reusable platform capabilities.
· Produce platform blueprints, standards, and guardrails to support
consistent delivery.
· Resolve cross-component design decisions and provide architectural
assurance.
· Ensure implementation aligns with enterprise architecture and security
standards.
· Collaborate with business SMEs, security, data, engineering, and
operations stakeholders.
· Evaluate solution options and document key architectural decisions.
· Assure detailed designs to ensure the Foundation Platform is scalable,
supportable, compliant, and aligned to the target architecture.
Experience
& Skills Required
· Strong experience designing
Azure platform foundations and shared services.
· Knowledge of identity, networking, observability, and security
architecture.
· Experience producing architecture blueprints, standards, and guardrails.
· Ability to make and document cross-domain design decisions.
· Experience working with enterprise architecture, security, engineering,
and operations teams.
· Strong understanding of scalable, supportable, and compliant platform
design.
What We’re Looking For
We are looking for a collaborative and commercially aware architect who
can shape robust Azure foundation services and ensure solutions are fit for
purpose, secure, and aligned to strategic architecture goals.