Principal Modernisation Architect & Solutions Lead

Codurance; Leeds; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Uncapped training support

Personal learning budget with Learnerb

Transparency – salary bands

Private medical cover & life assurance

Pension top-up option

Employee assistance program (EAP)

Enhanced parental leave

Electric Vehicle and Cycle to Work

Job summary

Codurance is seeking a Client Solutions Principal to shape and deliver modernisation work across multiple client engagements in the UK. The role is senior, hands-on with no line management, involving pre-sales shaping and delivery of projects, with travel to client sites as engagements require.

You will design target architectures for aging applications, explain approaches to client CTOs, and discuss how AI changes the strategy.

Qualifications

• Proven design and architecture of application modernisation: moving legacy or monolithic systems to modern architectures in increments while the business keeps running.
• A strong development background, with hands-on credibility in at least one mainstream stack such as .NET, Java or Node.js.
• Cloud-native delivery experience on Azure, AWS or GCP.
• Engineering discipline: automated testing, CI/CD and safe, incremental change to legacy code.
• Around five years or more in a consultancy, agency or embedded client delivery environment.
• Evidence of client-facing work, such as shaping scope, running discovery, or explaining a technical approach to a non-technical buyer.
• Credible AI literacy: you can explain how AI tooling changes modernisation work and have used it on real code.
• Care about how the work is done, including testing, pairing and passing knowledge to client teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the modernisation architecture story in proposals and discovery: target architecture, migration approach and risk.
• Join client calls and workshops, and explain technical approaches to non-technical buyers.
• Help scope work, build estimates and defend them.
• Shape repeatable modernisation offers, such as an assessment-to-roadmap package or a phased migration approach.
• Lead or work hands-on in live modernisation engagements: architecture, decomposition, incremental migration and re-platforming.
• Advise clients on how AI tooling changes modernisation work, and say plainly where it doesn't help.
• Set architecture and engineering standards and mentor engineers, without line management.
• Pass knowledge to client teams as the work goes, so they can run it themselves.

Skills

Solution architecture

Pre-sales

Client engagement

AI literacy

Architectural design

Cloud platforms

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Databricks

Job description

Codurance is seeking a Client Solutions Principal to shape and deliver modernisation work across multiple client engagements in the UK. The role is senior, hands-on with no line management, involving pre-sales shaping and delivery of projects, with travel to client sites as engagements require.

You will design target architectures for aging applications, explain approaches to client CTOs, and discuss how AI changes the strategy.