Lead Cloud Solutions Architect | Hybrid UK Role

Jacobs; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Cover

Life Assurance

Income Protection

Holiday buy/sell scheme

Wellbeing programs

Pension scheme

Job summary

Jacobs is seeking a Lead Solution Architect to shape software architectures for a diverse portfolio of cloud-based products. You will influence engineering direction, mentor teams, and collaborate with product leaders and stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure solutions across the organization.

The role emphasizes leadership over hands-on coding, with a focus on cloud-native development, CI/CD, and technical delivery, aligned to Jacobs’ global software platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience designing distributed, cloud-based software platforms.
• Strong architectural judgement and leadership.
• Ability to influence across multiple teams.
• Experience mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural leadership across a broad portfolio of software products.
• Review designs and guide cloud architecture and CI/CD practices.
• Collaborate with engineers, product leaders, and stakeholders.
• Mentor teams and drive engineering excellence.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Architect leadership

CI/CD

Mentoring engineers

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Azure

AWS

.NET

C#

Python

Microservices

Job description

Jacobs is seeking a Lead Solution Architect to shape software architectures for a diverse portfolio of cloud-based products. You will influence engineering direction, mentor teams, and collaborate with product leaders and stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure solutions across the organization.

The role emphasizes leadership over hands-on coding, with a focus on cloud-native development, CI/CD, and technical delivery, aligned to Jacobs’ global software platforms.