Senior Solution Architect — AI, Data & Cloud

Codal; Lincoln; Hybrid; GBP 135,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Maternity/Paternity Leave

Pension Scheme

Professional Development

Hybrid work environment

Job summary

Codal in the United Kingdom is seeking a hands-on Solution Architect to translate business goals into practical architectures across software, data, AI, and DevOps. This client-facing role involves whiteboard sessions, design work, and prototyping to prove approaches before scaling a team.

You will mentor engineers, guide technical delivery, and contribute to pre-sales and architecture governance. The role requires 9+ years of experience, cloud and container expertise, and a track record of

Qualifications

• 9+ years of hands-on software or systems engineering experience designing and owning architecture for complex, client-facing solutions.
• Proven ability to evaluate a client's existing technology landscape and provide clear, defensible recommendations including build-vs-buy and platform trade-offs.
• Strong grounding across at least two areas: application architecture, systems design, data architecture, AI/ML solutioning, and DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Assess a client's existing technology landscape and rationalize pros, cons, and risks of what's in place versus what's proposed.
• Design end-to-end solution architectures across application, data, AI/ML, and DevOps.
• Present and defend architecture recommendations to client stakeholders, with support from delivery and account teams.
• Support discovery, technical planning, and pre-sales conversations, translating client goals into a scoped technical approach.
• Create and maintain architecture decision records capturing trade-offs and reasoning.
• Guide engineering teams through implementation, prototyping, and hands-on problem solving.
• Evaluate emerging tools and AI capabilities to improve client solutions and delivery speed.
• Partner with DevOps, data, and engineering leads to align architecture with CI/CD and cloud realities.
• Mentor engineers on architectural thinking to improve team-wide systems thinking.

Skills

Architectural design

Cloud platforms

Containerization

AI/ML solutioning

Communication

Executive presentations

Mentoring

Client discovery

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Codal in the United Kingdom is seeking a hands-on Solution Architect to translate business goals into practical architectures across software, data, AI, and DevOps. This client-facing role involves whiteboard sessions, design work, and prototyping to prove approaches before scaling a team.

You will mentor engineers, guide technical delivery, and contribute to pre-sales and architecture governance. The role requires 9+ years of experience, cloud and container expertise, and a track record of