Lead Cloud Solution Architect - SaaS & AI Platforms

Jacobs; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Cover

Life Assurance

Income Protection

holiday buy/sell scheme

Wellbeing benefits

Pension scheme

Job summary

Jacobs is hiring a Lead Solution Architect to shape architectural direction for a broad portfolio of cloud-based software products. You will collaborate with engineers, product leaders, and stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable, secure solutions.

The role emphasizes architectural leadership, mentoring teams, and guiding CI/CD and cloud delivery without hands-on development, with a hybrid UK-based setup and 40-hour week.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and delivering distributed, cloud-based software solutions in Azure, AWS, or similar cloud environments.
• Proven track record of providing architectural leadership across multiple applications, products, or teams.
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, including CI/CD, cloud-native development, and software delivery lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural leadership across a broad portfolio of software products and services.
• Mentor engineering teams and influence technical direction without direct line management.
• Review designs and help establish scalable, secure delivery across cloud environments.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Leadership

Architectural judgement

Communication

CI/CD

Mentoring engineers

Stakeholder management

Tools

Azure

AWS

.NET

C#

Python

Microservices

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Jacobs is hiring a Lead Solution Architect to shape architectural direction for a broad portfolio of cloud-based software products. You will collaborate with engineers, product leaders, and stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable, secure solutions.

The role emphasizes architectural leadership, mentoring teams, and guiding CI/CD and cloud delivery without hands-on development, with a hybrid UK-based setup and 40-hour week.