Senior Cloud Solution Architect - AI-Ready Platform Lead

Jacobs; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Cover

Life Assurance

Income Protection

Holiday Buy/Sell

Pension Scheme

Job summary

Jacobs in the United Kingdom is seeking a Lead Solution Architect to shape software platforms used by engineers across our global business. You will translate business needs into robust, scalable, and secure cloud-based solutions while guiding architectural decisions.

This is a transformation role focused on strengthening engineering standards, improving development practices, and enabling AI-enabled capabilities.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and delivering distributed, cloud-based software solutions in Azure, AWS, or similar cloud environments.
• Proven architectural leadership across multiple applications, products, or engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, cloud-native development, and software delivery lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural leadership across a broad portfolio of software products and services.
• Mentor engineering teams, review solution designs, and establish consistent delivery approaches.
• Influence technical direction across multiple teams and stakeholder groups.
• Engage with engineers and product leaders to translate business needs into robust solutions.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Distributed systems

Azure

AWS

CI/CD

Mentoring

Stakeholder comms

Tools

.NET

Python

Microservices

Job description

Jacobs in the United Kingdom is seeking a Lead Solution Architect to shape software platforms used by engineers across our global business. You will translate business needs into robust, scalable, and secure cloud-based solutions while guiding architectural decisions.

This is a transformation role focused on strengthening engineering standards, improving development practices, and enabling AI-enabled capabilities.