Senior Cloud Solution Architect — Hybrid, High-Impact Leadership

Jacobs; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health cover

Life assurance

Income protection

Holiday buy/sell scheme

Enhanced pension

Job summary

Jacobs is seeking an experienced Lead Solution Architect to drive architectural leadership across a portfolio of cloud-based software products and services. You will collaborate with engineers, product leaders and stakeholders to shape design choices, ensure scalable solutions and maintain secure delivery across multiple teams.

The role emphasises transforming software delivery practices, cloud-native development, and CI/CD maturity, with hybrid working 2–3 days in a Jacobs office in the UK and

Qualifications

• Experience designing distributed cloud-based software platforms.
• Strong architectural judgement and ability to influence across teams.

Responsibilities

• As Lead Solution Architect, provide architectural leadership across a broad portfolio of software products and services.
• Mentor engineering teams, review designs and establish consistent software delivery practices.
• Engage with stakeholders to translate business needs into robust, scalable, secure solutions.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Leadership

Architectural design

CI/CD

Stakeholder communication

Mentoring engineers

Azure

AWS

Tools

Azure

AWS

Job description

Jacobs is seeking an experienced Lead Solution Architect to drive architectural leadership across a portfolio of cloud-based software products and services. You will collaborate with engineers, product leaders and stakeholders to shape design choices, ensure scalable solutions and maintain secure delivery across multiple teams.

The role emphasises transforming software delivery practices, cloud-native development, and CI/CD maturity, with hybrid working 2–3 days in a Jacobs office in the UK and