Consulting AI & Cloud Solutions Architect

CACI Digital Experience (formerly Cyber-Duck); Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

CACI Ltd in London is hiring a Consulting Solutions Architect to lead architecture work for a broad client base across utilities, gaming, publishing, retail and more. You will collaborate with Business Analysts, Lead Consultants and technical SMEs to capture requirements, define As-Is and To-Be architectures, and plan phased transitions.

You will present proposals to clients, guide development teams, and drive AI- and cloud-native solutions, focusing on data platforms, integration, DevOps

Qualifications

• Understanding of contemporary software engineering, including the selection and application of appropriate technology and patterns.
• Confidence working in a team and designing full‑stack solutions.
• Detailed knowledge of at least one major Cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Confident in front of clients and technical stakeholders, explaining design decisions.
• DevOps and the techniques which enable it, including containerisation, CI/CD and IaC.
• Relational and non‑relational databases.
• Integration methods and transport protocols e.g. REST API, Kafka etc.
• Knowledge of Cloud native resources, and their uses and application e.g. Lambdas, Functions, Kubernetes.
• Experience of working in agile environments.
• Comfortable working with high‑level stakeholders, both internally and externally.

Responsibilities

• Define and assess technical architectures and solutions.
• Define technical and requirements.
• Produce high‑ and low level technical designs.
• Define the tools and practices to monitor and support cloud applications.
• Architect end to end solutions that support the ingestion, processing and storage of data, including, potentially, the deployment of ML or AI models.
• Architect and make recommendations to rationalise, simplify or optimise architectures.
• Make recommendations that may support: digital sovereignty, compute optimisation, cost optimisation.

Skills

Software architecture

Full‑stack design

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Client facing

DevOps & IaC

Databases

APIs & Kafka

Cloud‑native infra

Agile

Stakeholder management

Tools

REST API & Kafka

Job description

CACI Ltd in London is hiring a Consulting Solutions Architect to lead architecture work for a broad client base across utilities, gaming, publishing, retail and more. You will collaborate with Business Analysts, Lead Consultants and technical SMEs to capture requirements, define As-Is and To-Be architectures, and plan phased transitions.

You will present proposals to clients, guide development teams, and drive AI- and cloud-native solutions, focusing on data platforms, integration, DevOps