Location: Bristol / Customer Sites (fully onsite)Duration: 9 month contractRate: 89ph LTD (Outside IR35) Role details: Our client, a leading defence company, are looking for a Solutions Architect to join their Intelligence Solutions business unit on a contract basis. You will work within a highly skilled Solution Architecture community and apply your architecture skills to new systems integration projects and across a range of existing systems. Key responsibility areas will include: Interpret customers'' business objectives, concerns, statements of work, and target market for services, to define requirements and key success factors for solutions. Break down EPIC into stories and facilitate the AGILE approach to deliver the solution.Assess the current and desired state of customer systems and environments.Understand contextual factors, constraints and stakeholder perspectives including business, user and operations, and define use cases.Maintain current understanding of IT, security and supporting technologies, supplier offerings and in-house capabilities with which to construct solutions.Use broad technical expertise and creative thinking to define, evaluate alternatives, develop and communicate solution architectures that address functional and non-functional requirements and integrate with their environment.Support project, programme and service operations managers in the development and delivery of transformation plans and operational plans that implement solution architec