Principal Cloud Solutions Architect - Hybrid UK

Jacobs; Stafford; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health cover

Life Assurance

Income Protection

Holiday buy/sell scheme

Wellbeing programs

Enhanced pension

Job summary

Jacobs is seeking a Lead Solution Architect to provide architectural leadership across a broad portfolio of software products and services. You’ll translate business needs into robust, scalable, and secure solutions while guiding decision-making and collaborating with engineers, product leaders and technical stakeholders.

The role emphasizes mentoring, design reviews, and establishing consistent approaches to cloud architecture, CI/CD, and software delivery.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing distributed, cloud-based software solutions.
• Proven track record providing architectural leadership across multiple applications or teams.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, cloud-native development, and software delivery lifecycle principles.
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction without direct line management.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural leadership across a broad portfolio of software products and services.
• Translate business needs into robust, scalable, and secure solutions.
• Guide architectural decision-making and review solution designs.
• Mentor engineering teams and establish consistent development approaches (CI/CD, cloud architecture).
• Engage with technical and non-technical stakeholders to align technical direction.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud architecture

Leadership

Mentoring

Stakeholder communication

Solution design reviews

Tools

Azure

AWS

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Job description

Jacobs is seeking a Lead Solution Architect to provide architectural leadership across a broad portfolio of software products and services. You’ll translate business needs into robust, scalable, and secure solutions while guiding decision-making and collaborating with engineers, product leaders and technical stakeholders.

The role emphasizes mentoring, design reviews, and establishing consistent approaches to cloud architecture, CI/CD, and software delivery.