Lead Cloud Solutions Architect & Strategist

Jacobs; Gloucester; 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

Enhanced pension scheme

Job summary

Jacobs seeks a Lead Solution Architect to provide architectural leadership across a broad portfolio of software products and services. You will translate business needs into robust, scalable, and secure solutions, guide decision-making, and mentor engineering teams while influencing technical direction across multiple groups.

In this role you will engage with stakeholders, review designs, and help establish consistent cloud, CI/CD, and delivery practices.

Qualifications

• Experience designing distributed, cloud-based solutions across Azure, AWS, or similar.
• Strong architectural judgment and ability to influence across teams.
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading architectural decisions.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural leadership across a broad portfolio of software products and services.
• Review solution designs and establish consistent approaches to software delivery, cloud native development, and technical delivery.
• Mentor engineering teams and guide architectural decision-making across multiple projects.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud architecture

CI/CD

Leadership

Mentoring engineers

Stakeholder communication

Job description

Jacobs seeks a Lead Solution Architect to provide architectural leadership across a broad portfolio of software products and services. You will translate business needs into robust, scalable, and secure solutions, guide decision-making, and mentor engineering teams while influencing technical direction across multiple groups.

In this role you will engage with stakeholders, review designs, and help establish consistent cloud, CI/CD, and delivery practices.