Security Clearance: Applicants must either hold current Security Check (SC) clearance or be eligible to obtain SC clearance. Candidates without existing clearance must be willing to complete the required security vetting process as a condition of appointment.

About the role

Shivom Consultancy is looking for an experienced Document & Workflow Solution Architect to join our growing architecture practice. You will provide architecture leadership across enterprise document processing, intelligent document processing, workflow, business process automation and robotic process automation. The role will focus on how organisations receive, digitise, classify, extract, validate, route, process, retain and produce information at scale, and how these capabilities integrate with wider digital services, case management platforms and enterprise systems.

You will also help organisations make informed decisions about automation, including where technologies such as UiPath and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) provide genuine business value and where more sustainable approaches such as APIs, event driven integration, workflow services or native platform capabilities should be introduced. You will work across document ingestion, intelligent document processing, digital mailroom, workflow orchestration, RPA, managed file transfer, digital correspondence and high volume print services.

The role requires someone who combines strong solution architecture skills with practical understanding of document, workflow, automation and integration technologies. You will work closely with enterprise architects, product teams, engineers, automation specialists, data teams, cyber security specialists, operational stakeholders and technology suppliers.

This role will support major UK public sector and enterprise transformation programmes within Shivom’s client portfolio.

What you will be doing You will:

• Lead solution architecture across enterprise document processing, workflow and automation capabilities.
• Define current, target and transition architectures for document, workflow and automation platforms.
• Architect solutions for high volume document intake, scanning, digitisation, classification, extraction, validation and routing.
• Design intelligent document processing solutions using OCR, rules based processing, machine learning and AI assisted techniques where appropriate.
• Define enterprise workflow and orchestration architectures spanning people, applications, data and automated processes.
• Architect and govern enterprise Robotic Process Automation capabilities, including UiPath based automation.
• Assess business processes to determine when RPA is appropriate and when APIs, event driven integration, workflow platforms or native application functionality provide a more sustainable solution.
• Define architecture for attended and unattended automation.
• Define reusable RPA patterns covering orchestration, queues, credentials, scheduling, exception handling, monitoring and operational support.
• Assess existing automation estates and identify opportunities to simplify, redesign, consolidate or replace tactical automation.
• Design integrations between document, workflow and automation platforms and enterprise applications, case management systems, CRM platforms, data services and APIs.
• Architect secure Managed File Transfer and enterprise file exchange solutions.
• Define patterns for SFTP, secure batch exchange, encryption, scheduling, reconciliation, failure handling and operational monitoring.
• Support migration from Legacy file based and batch integrations towards API based and event driven approaches where appropriate.
• Define approaches for human in the loop processing, validation, exception management and operational intervention.
• Architect outbound document generation, digital correspondence and high volume print services.
• Identify opportunities to replace manual, paper based and repetitive processes with sustainable digital workflows.
• Develop solution visions, high level solution approaches and High Level Designs.
• Translate business and operational requirements into secure, scalable, resilient and maintainable technical solutions.
• Define and assure non functional requirements including availability, resilience, performance, scalability, security, auditability, disaster recovery, maintainability and supportability.
• Develop technology roadmaps covering platform modernisation, automation evolution, service consolidation, migration and lifecycle management.
• Support migration from Legacy workflow, document and automation technologies to modern cloud based or SaaS platforms.
• Define monitoring and observability requirements for document, workflow and automation services.
• Ensure platforms support auditable and repeatable deployment through modern source control, CI/CD and configuration management practices.
• Work with engineering and delivery teams throughout discovery, design, implementation and transition into live service.
• Review detailed technical designs and implementation approaches against agreed architecture.
• Identify architectural risks, dependencies and technical debt and recommend proportionate remediation.
• Prepare and present architecture decisions through technical governance and design authority forums.
• Support proofs of concept, technical feasibility exercises and technology evaluations.
• Contribute to architecture peer reviews and continuous improvement across Shivom’s architecture practice.

Essential experience and skills We are looking for strong experience across most of the following:

• Significant experience as a Solution Architect, Technical Architect, Automation Architect, Workflow Architect or Document Solutions Architect within complex enterprise environments.
• Experience designing enterprise document processing, workflow or content management solutions.
• Experience with high volume document intake and processing.
• Strong understanding of document capture, scanning and digital ingestion.
• Experience with OCR and intelligent document processing technologies.
• Experience with document classification, metadata extraction, validation and routing.
• Strong understanding of Robotic Process Automation architecture and delivery.
• Practical experience with enterprise RPA platforms, ideally UiPath.
• Experience designing attended and unattended automation patterns.
• Experience with workflow orchestration, queues, exception handling and human in the loop processing.
• Experience assessing and rationalising RPA estates.
• Ability to determine when RPA should be retained, redesigned or replaced by APIs, events or native integration.
• Experience designing enterprise workflow and business process automation solutions.
• Experience integrating document, workflow and automation platforms with enterprise applications and digital services.
• Strong understanding of API based and event driven integration patterns.
• Experience designing Managed File Transfer or secure enterprise file exchange solutions.
• Understanding of batch processing, file based integration and migration towards modern integration patterns.
• Experience of document generation and outbound correspondence services.
• Experience working with high volume or operationally critical services.
• Strong understanding of information security, identity, access control, credential management, audit and data protection.
• Experience defining resilience, availability, performance and disaster recovery requirements.
• Experience architecting monitoring, logging and operational support for document and automation platforms.
• Understanding of CI/CD, source control and repeatable deployment for workflow and automation solutions.
• Experience producing architecture artefacts including solution visions, High Level Designs, options assessments, architecture decisions, roadmaps and integration designs.
• Experience modernising or replacing Legacy document, workflow or automation technologies.
• Experience working within technical governance or architecture review processes.
• Experience working across multiple delivery teams and technology suppliers.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively with both technical teams and operational business stakeholders.
• Ability to make pragmatic architecture decisions balancing automation benefits, maintainability, security, cost and delivery constraints.

RPA and automation architecture RPA is an important part of this role. We are looking for someone who can architect automation as an enterprise capability, rather than simply design individual bots or scripts.

You should understand areas including:

• UiPath platform architecture
• UiPath Studio
• UiPath Orchestrator
• UiPath Robots
• Attended and unattended automation
• Automation queues
• Workload scheduling
• Credential and secrets management
• Role based access control
• Development, test and production environments
• Reusable automation components
• Source control
• CI/CD for automation assets
• Exception and retry handling
• Monitoring and alerting
• Audit and traceability
• Business continuity and disaster recovery
• Automation lifecycle management
• Platform capacity and licensing
• Automation governance and standards
• Operational support models

You should also be comfortable determining whether a business process is best addressed using RPA, workflow, API integration, event driven integration or native application functionality .

Document processing and intelligent document processing You should have good architectural understanding across areas such as:

• Enterprise scanning
• Document capture
• Digital mailroom
• Optical Character Recognition
• Intelligent Document Processing
• Document classification
• Metadata extraction
• Forms recognition
• Image processing
• Validation
• Exception management
• Barcode and QR processing
• Batch document ingestion
• Near Real Time document ingestion
• Document redaction
• Document transformation
• PDF generation and processing
• Records management
• Retention and disposal
• Archiving

Experience designing solutions that combine document processing, workflow, automation and downstream enterprise integration would be particularly valuable. Intelligent automation and AI We are interested in candidates who understand how AI and machine learning can improve document processing and workflow automation, while recognising where deterministic automation remains more appropriate.

You should be comfortable assessing technologies such as:

• OCR
• Document intelligence
• Machine learning based classification
• Natural language processing
• Data extraction
• Generative AI
• AI assisted validation
• Intelligent routing

You should also understand architectural considerations including:

• Accuracy and confidence thresholds
• Human validation
• Exception management
• Data privacy
• Security
• Explainability
• Auditability
• Model lifecycle
• Monitoring
• Operational resilience
• Cost and scalability

Managed File Transfer and enterprise integration You should understand how document and workflow services exchange information with wider enterprise systems.

Experience with several of the following would be beneficial:

• Managed File Transfer
• SFTP
• Secure enterprise file exchange
• Encryption in transit and at rest
• Batch processing
• File based integration
• File reconciliation
• Transfer scheduling
• Monitoring and alerting
• Failure and retry handling
• REST APIs
• API management
• Azure API Management
• Azure Service Bus
• Messaging and queues
• Event driven architecture
• Azure Functions
• SaaS and COTS integration

You should be able to support organisations operating transitional file based integrations while also defining pathways towards more sustainable API and event driven architectures. Technology experience Candidates do not need deep expertise in every technology listed below. We are looking for strong depth in document, workflow and automation architecture combined with sufficient breadth across cloud, integration, engineering and operational tooling. RPA and automation Experience with technologies such as:

• UiPath
• UiPath Studio
• UiPath Orchestrator
• UiPath Robots
• UiPath Document Understanding
• UiPath Automation Hub
• UiPath queues
• Microsoft Power Automate
• Microsoft Power Platform
• Automation Anywhere
• Blue Prism
• Workflow engines
• Business Process Management platforms
• Rules engines
• Process mining
• Task mining

Experience with equivalent automation platforms is relevant where strong transferable architecture experience can be demonstrated. Document and content technologies Experience with technologies or platforms such as:

• Azure AI Document Intelligence
• ABBYY
• Tungsten Automation/Kofax
• OpenText
• Hyland
• Adobe document technologies
• Enterprise content management platforms
• Document management systems
• Digital mailroom solutions
• Correspondence generation platforms
• Print management services
• Records management platforms

Specific product experience is less important than strong architectural understanding of enterprise document processing. Cloud and integration Experience across several of the following would be useful:

• Microsoft Azure
• Azure API Management
• Azure Service Bus
• Azure Functions
• Microsoft Entra ID
• REST APIs
• Event driven architecture
• SaaS and COTS integration
• Azure Storage
• Data integration services

Engineering and deployment Experience or architectural understanding of:

• Azure DevOps
• GitHub
• CI/CD
• Source control
• Infrastructure as Code
• Terraform
• Bicep
• Automated deployment
• Environment configuration
• Release management

You do not need to be a DevOps engineer, but should understand how modern workflow and automation platforms can be deployed and governed through repeatable engineering practices. Monitoring and observability Experience with several of the following would be advantageous:

• Azure Monitor
• Application Insights
• Log Analytics
• Dynatrace
• Grafana
• Centralised logging
• Automation monitoring
• Queue monitoring
• Failed transaction monitoring
• Operational dashboards
• Alerting and event management
• Performance monitoring
• Capacity monitoring

Our architecture approach At Shivom, we place strong emphasis on:

• Intelligent and proportionate automation
• Automation that delivers measurable operational value
• API based integration where appropriate
• Event driven architecture
• Reuse of common platforms and services
• Simplification and convergence
• Modernisation of Legacy technology
• Reducing brittle point to point and screen based automation
• Secure by design architecture
• Resilience and operational readiness
• Auditability and traceability
• Engineering aligned architecture
• Sustainable technology choices
• Effective collaboration across multiple suppliers and delivery teams

We believe RPA can deliver significant value, particularly where Legacy systems lack modern interfaces, but automation should form part of a broader enterprise architecture rather than become an isolated tactical capability. Desirable experience It would be advantageous to have:

• Significant UiPath architecture or platform design experience.
• UiPath professional certification.
• Experience establishing, governing or supporting an enterprise RPA capability or Automation Centre of Excellence.
• Experience assessing and rationalising large RPA estates.
• Experience migrating tactical RPA towards strategic integration.
• Experience combining UiPath, document processing, workflow and APIs into end to end business processes.
• Experience with UiPath Document Understanding.
• Experience with process mining or automation discovery.
• Experience designing Managed File Transfer solutions.
• Experience with secure batch or file exchange between enterprise systems.
• Experience with Azure DevOps or GitHub based deployment of automation assets.
• Experience with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics or similar observability technologies.
• Experience delivering architecture within UK central government, healthcare, financial services, defence, policing or another regulated environment.
• Experience with large scale document processing or digital mailroom services.
• Experience with high volume outbound correspondence and print services.
• Experience replacing paper based or manual processes with digital workflows.
• Experience integrating document and automation platforms with case management, CRM or workflow systems.
• Experience with records management, retention and disposal.
• Experience handling sensitive or regulated information.
• Experience working within complex multi supplier environments.
• Existing SC security clearance.
• TOGAF, Microsoft Azure or other relevant architecture or technology certifications.

Professional certifications are desirable rather than mandatory where equivalent practical experience can be demonstrated. What success looks like You will be successful when you can:

• Understand complex document, workflow and automation landscapes quickly.
• Identify where digitisation and automation will genuinely improve business outcomes.
• Determine whether RPA, workflow, API integration, event driven architecture or another approach is most appropriate.
• Architect enterprise RPA capability rather than focusing only on individual robotic processes.
• Establish sustainable standards and patterns for automation.
• Identify opportunities to replace fragile automation with more resilient integration.
• Define a clear architecture direction for modern document and workflow services.
• Design solutions capable of processing high document and transaction volumes reliably.
• Integrate document, workflow and automation capabilities cleanly with wider enterprise systems.
• Balance automation with appropriate human validation and exception handling.
• Build security, auditability and operational resilience into solutions from the outset.
• Design monitoring and operational support as part of the solution rather than as an afterthought.
• Produce architecture that engineering and automation teams can practically implement.
• Make clear recommendations when faced with competing technology and product options.
• Work effectively with operational teams as well as technology specialists.
• Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, suppliers and fellow architects.

Security requirements

Applicants must either hold current Security Check (SC) clearance or be eligible to obtain SC clearance . Candidates who do not currently hold SC clearance must be willing to complete the required security vetting process as a condition of appointment. The successful candidate will be expected to work in accordance with applicable client and government security policies when undertaking assignments involving sensitive information or systems. Working arrangements This is a UK based hybrid role. You should be comfortable working remotely while also attending Shivom offices, client locations and other UK sites where collaboration, delivery activities or security requirements make in person attendance appropriate. The frequency of on site attendance may vary depending on the nature and stage of individual assignments. Benefits At Shivom, we want our people to build long term careers while working on meaningful and technically challenging programmes.

Our benefits package includes:

• Private medical insurance
• Critical illness cover
• Employer pension contribution
• Generous annual leave entitlement plus UK bank holidays
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, subject to client requirements
• Support for professional certifications and technical training
• Continuous professional development opportunities
• Access to architecture, cloud, automation, AI, security, data and engineering learning opportunities
• Support for maintaining and progressing professional and security clearances
• Career progression within Shivom’s architecture and technology leadership practice
• Opportunities to work on major UK public sector and enterprise transformation programmes
• Regular knowledge sharing, technical forums and architecture communities of practice
• Employee wellbeing support
• Company sponsored social and team events
• Employee referral opportunities
• Recognition and performance related reward opportunities

About Shivom Consultancy

Shivom Consultancy is a UK based technology consultancy specialising in architecture, cloud, data, security, software engineering and digital transformation. We help organisations modernise complex technology estates, automate manual processes, adopt cloud and digital platforms, strengthen cyber security and build secure, resilient and sustainable technology capabilities. Our architecture practice focuses on practical architecture that connects strategy with engineering. We believe architects should remain close to delivery, understand the operational impact of their decisions and help teams make technology choices that remain sustainable beyond the immediate project. You will join a growing architecture community with opportunities to work across document services, automation, AI, cloud, data, integration, identity, security and digital platforms.

Why join Shivom?

You will have the opportunity to work at the intersection of enterprise automation, intelligent document processing, workflow, AI and modern integration while developing your career within a growing architecture practice. You will be able to influence how organisations move from manual processes and tactical automation towards scalable, resilient and sustainable enterprise capabilities. We combine the variety and technical challenge of consultancy with the opportunity to build longer term relationships with clients and delivery teams, influence architecture direction and see solutions progress from early design through implementation and live service.

Equal opportunities

Shivom Consultancy is committed to creating an inclusive and supportive working environment. We welcome applications from suitably qualified candidates regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We will make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process where required.