Architecture, AI, cloud, and automation services for complex environments.
Unicorn Consultants brings 25+ years of hands-on solution architecture and delivery experience to government, public-sector, and regulated enterprise teams. We help you make hard technical decisions, shape secure architectures, and get them delivered by real engineering teams.
Search-led architecture support.
Teams usually find us when they need a senior solution architect, cloud architecture consultant, AI architecture consultant, DevOps automation consultant, security architecture specialist, or technical design authority for delivery-critical work. We cover short advisory calls, fractional architecture leadership, and hands-on delivery support across the UK.
Core capabilities.
Six connected specialisms, built on decades of delivery in public sector, healthcare, and regulated enterprise environments.
Solution Architecture & Governance
Senior architecture leadership for complex programmes: strategy, design authority, stakeholder governance, risk communication, and engineering-team delivery direction.
Cloud & Infrastructure Architecture
Azure and AWS landing zones, hybrid platforms, migrations, resilience, and architecture governance — designed by a lead architect, delivered hands-on.
Security & Compliance
Secure-by-design infrastructure, identity and access, and a deep PKI/Certificate Services specialism — proven in environments where assurance is mandatory.
AI & Communications Architecture
RAG, agentic AI, OpenAI and Azure AI Services, plus AI-powered communications built on deep telephony, SIP, IVR, and contact-centre experience.
Monitoring & Observability
Enterprise monitoring architecture across Zabbix, Grafana, Splunk, SCOM, and ELK — integrated with ServiceNow and your incident process, not just your inbox.
DevOps & Automation
Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and configuration management at scale — turning fragile manual work into reliable, auditable systems.
Specialist services.
Specific architecture and engineering services for teams dealing with inherited platforms, assurance pressure, scaling constraints, or operational risk.
PKI & Certificate Services
Windows ADCS design, remediation, certificate authority migration, and safe decommissioning.
SRE & Observability
Reliability practice, SLOs, alert ownership, ITSM integration, and operational observability.
AI Voice Agents for Web
Web-based conversational AI grounded in live, user-specific data from backend systems.
Privileged Access Management
CyberArk-style PAM design, session control, ITSM integration, and credential rotation.
Network Automation at Scale
Ansible-led network standardisation across large, multi-vendor, multi-site estates.
Interim Lead Architect
Fractional technical authority for programme delivery, assurance, vendor management, and rescue work.
Zero Trust Perimeter
Azure Front Door WAF, resilient ingress, segmentation, DDoS mitigation, and ITHC scoping.
Regulated Data Migration
Lineage, validation, and security controls for sensitive government and regulated data migrations.
Post-Quantum Cryptography
Cryptographic discovery, migration planning to the NCSC timeline, and crypto-agile PKI design.
Certificate Lifecycle Management
Certificate discovery, issuance and renewal automation, and expiry monitoring for shorter TLS lifetimes.
NCSC CAF & Cyber Resilience
CAF v4.0 gap assessment, remediation architecture, and the assurance evidence reviewers expect.
VMware Exit & Migration
Independent options analysis, TCO modelling, target platform design, and safe staged cutover.
Service questions.
Can you act as technical design authority?
Yes. We provide design authority, architecture governance, technical assurance, and decision support for programmes that need senior architectural control.
Do you only advise, or can you help deliver?
Both. We can review and steer decisions, or work directly with engineering teams on cloud, automation, monitoring, security, AI, communications, and integration delivery.
Can you support public-sector or regulated work?
Yes. Our experience includes public-sector, healthcare, government, MSP, and regulated enterprise environments where governance, evidence, security, and handover matter.
Three ways to engage.
Micro-Consulting
Short, scoped senior architecture time — an advisory session, a review with written findings, or a focused design sprint. Delivering under a partner brand instead? See Associate & White-Label Delivery.
SaaS & Tooling
End-to-end design and engineering for SaaS products, internal platforms, portals, and the integrations that hold them together.
Automation Packages
Pre-scoped automation sprints that transform repetitive operations into reliable flows — fixed scope, measurable outcomes.
Who we work with.
Organisations — public sector, healthcare, and regulated enterprises that need senior architecture and delivery leadership without a permanent hire.
Partners — MSPs, digital agencies, and Microsoft Partners that need specialist capability delivered under their own brand, with no conflict of interest.