Security, Service and Solution Architecture

Our security, service and solution architecture services provide an integrated approach to designing the platforms and services your organisation depends on – across SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, and across public, private, hybrid and sovereign cloud.

We work with you to understand business drivers, regulatory obligations, service levels and technical constraints, then translate these into target architectures, patterns and roadmaps. This includes cloud platform design, application and integration architectures, data and analytics, identity, observability and operations – all aligned to recognised frameworks and good practice.

Our architects are experienced in multi-cloud and enterprise environments, unifying disparate technologies and suppliers into coherent designs. We design reference architectures and blueprints that make use of modern engineering practices: Infrastructure as Code, containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes), GitOps and CI/CD; platform engineering; and automation for provisioning, patching and compliance. We also design security and privacy into each layer, ensuring architectures support strong controls, monitoring and resilience by default.

We can support greenfield designs or modernisation of legacy estates, including migration strategies, coexistence patterns, data migration and service transition. Service and solution design is aligned to GDS Service Design and Technology Code of Practice where applicable, ensuring user-centred, operable services that fit your operating model and support/outsourcing approach.

By combining security, service and solution architecture into a single, joined-up view, we help you make informed technology choices, reduce complexity and risk, and create a platform for faster, safer delivery of digital and cloud services.