Principal Architect - Technical

SCC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Large company benefits

Flexible benefits scheme

2 paid volunteering days

Job summary

SCC is seeking a Principal Architect - Technical based in London to engage with clients and develop their strategic goals. This role involves providing architectural and governance services while working closely with sales to drive consultancy opportunities. Required skills include proven experience in architecture and presales consulting, presentation of technical solutions, and strong communication skills. The position offers a salary of £100k-£120k and supports hybrid working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a professional services architecture role with some time spent in presales/client consulting.
• Experience presenting technical solutions to both technology and non-technology personnel.
• Breadth of knowledge across end-to-end business models and processes in at least one industry sector.

Responsibilities

• Engage directly with customers to understand their business challenges.
• Advise customers on technology choices and options.
• Coordinate presales activities and develop customer proposals.
• Deliver consultancy engagements producing recommendations and blueprints.

Skills

Professional services architecture experience

Consultative presales/client consulting

Technical solution presentation

Knowledge across IT services

Interpersonal and communication skills

Job description

About The Role

We are actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone.

Role: Principal Architect - Technical

Location: London (SCC operate hybrid working, which comprises of a mix of office and home working)

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary Package: 100-120k plus large company benefits, a broad flexible benefits scheme, and 2 paid-for volunteering days a year

Hours: 9.00 am – 5.30 pm Monday – Friday

Why SCC?

• An inclusive workplace
• Excellent package: solid basic and company benefits
• Hybrid working & core hours in line with role requirements
• Career development and life-long learning opportunities
• Opportunity to join Europe's largest privately-owned IT Company

Role purpose

The Principal Architect Technical, works with SCC’s clients to develop their strategic goals, providing strategy, architecture and governance services using best practice approaches. Working closely with Sales colleagues to drive Strategic Consultancy opportunities and deliver engagements across all verticals.

The Principal Architect Technical, works within the SCC Consultancy Team with the purpose to ensure that we help our customers make the correct decisions relating to IT and business in the most efficient, risk-managed way. This involves development of our customers’ architecture and IT services in partnership, to ensure that business strategy, objectives and benefits are met and that future business roadmaps can be achieved through effective IT services and business change.

Key responsibilities

• Engage directly with customers, often on speculative/pre‑RFP requirements, to understand their business challenges and translate these into technology requirements.
• Advise customers on technology choices and options.
• Act as a single point of contact for consultative presales engagements, and coordinate Business Unit presales when required.
• Develop customer proposals, statements of work, supporting cost models and define proof of concept engagements where appropriate.
• Participate in bid responses as part of a bid team.
• Deliver Consultancy engagements across the stack providing and producing recommendations – strategies, roadmaps, business cases, as‑is / to‑be assessments, and high‑level architecture blueprints.
• Work closely with delivery teams to ensure presales opportunities are handed over with clarity regarding the proposed solution, implementation approach, and customer engagement.
• Develop SCC’s Consultancy propositions and associated collateral.
• Drive best practice, standards, and principles to help clients achieve transformation and maturity goals, and ensure skills and knowledge are updated with market trends, customer demands, and BU standard solutions.

Skills and experience

• Proven experience in a professional services architecture role with a proportion of time spent in presales/client consulting at a senior level.
• Experience presenting technical solutions to technology and non-technology personnel, up to and including board level.
• Breadth of knowledge across end-to-end business operating models and processes, with expertise in at least one industry sector.
• Extensive knowledge of IT services and technology domains.
• Strong understanding of technology best practice and governance; experience across programme & project management, delivery, architecture, and service management.
• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills and a proactive, engaging communication style.

About Us

SCC is Europe's largest privately‑owned IT business, based in the new £7m HQ office in Birmingham, helping clients succeed through IT transformation and exceptional customer experiences. We combine unique ideas, people, and disciplines to innovate and simplify the complex.

Equal opportunities

We are an equal opportunities employer.

SCC is committed to providing equal opportunities and a proactive, inclusive approach to equality and diversity in employment. No applicant or employee will be treated less favourably on the grounds of a protected characteristic defined as sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, trade union membership or non-membership, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, and religion or belief.