Senior Solutions Architect

Jas Gujral; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An international consultancy based in Central London is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect. The successful applicant will work with sales and delivery teams, develop solution architectures, and engage with business leaders. The role requires over 20 years of experience, strong communication skills, and knowledge of cloud technologies. The competitive salary ranges from £70K to £100K based on expertise.

Qualifications

• 20+ years of Solutions Architecture experience in customer-facing roles.
• Proven track record of designing scalable solutions at the enterprise level.
• Experience with cloud technologies and application development.

Responsibilities

• Work on opportunities with sales, practice and delivery teams through pre-sales process.
• Develop customer proposals and solution architecture.
• Engage with business and IT groups for alignment.

Skills

Solution architecture

Communication skills

Agile/Scrum methodology

Cloud technologies

Microservices

Education

Bachelors or master's degree in engineering

Tools

TOGAF

MuleSoft

Apigee

Job description

Overview

Senior Solutions Architect for an international consultancy with offices in Holborn, Central London. The role is based at the Company's Central London Offices.

Responsibilities

• Work on opportunities with the sales, practice and delivery teams through the pre-sales process.
• Develop customer proposals – solution architecture, pitch decks, estimating solution effort, resourcing and timelines.
• Translate requirements into solution architecture diagrams, implementation roadmaps, delivery approaches and other artifacts.
• Understand business and technology issues and translate them into modern technology solutions.
• Engage with business and IT groups to align solution architecture with strategic business direction.
• Build a trusted advisor relationship with business and technology leaders.
• Stay periodically engaged throughout the entire project lifecycle to ensure ongoing alignment to the established solution vision.

Qualifications

• Bachelors or master's degree in engineering (computer, electronics, etc.).
• 20+ years of Solutions Architecture experience (or equivalent enterprise architecture experience) and in customer-facing roles.
• Vertical domain knowledge in Financial Services will be an advantage.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in client-driven large-scale application platform implementation projects.
• Experience and desire to work in a global delivery environment.
• Ability to travel up to 40%.
• Familiarity with architecture modeling tools. TOGAF experience / certification desired but not necessary.
• Proven track record of designing / developing scalable solutions at the enterprise level.
• Demonstrated success in quickly understanding business needs and aligning them to technology solutions.
• Experience delivering solutions using an Agile / Scrum methodology.
• Strong communications skills (e.g. active listening, requirements elicitation, oral, written, presentation, workshop facilitation, consensus building).
• Experience with cloud technologies and application development areas such as cloud native development, 12 factor apps, microservices, serverless, API management, Kafka, etc.
• Deep knowledge of Microservices, Containers, REST APIs development, API Management tools (e.g. MuleSoft, Apigee), Kafka.
• Broad expertise in digital technologies in areas of application platform development, web and mobile development, cloud, integration, security, etc.
• Application development experience with at least one cloud provider (AWS or MS Azure).
• Understanding of distributed computing and building highly scalable systems.
• Experience with platform modernization and cloud migration projects.
• Expertise in Agile development methodologies like TDD, BDD, and performance/load testing.
• DevOps experience – CI/CD, Test Automation, Containerization – tools and processes.
• Familiarity with emerging technologies – chatbots, voice/conversational interfaces, RPA, Machine Learning, etc.
• Hands-on development experience in web/mobile applications or platforms with Java/J2EE or .NET stack and databases such as Oracle, MySQL, etc.
• Exposure to polyglot programming languages like Scala, Python and Golang is a plus.
• Ability to read/write code and expertise with various design patterns.
• Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.

Location and Benefits

The client’s offices are based in Holborn - Central London. The salary for this position will be based on expertise and will be in the range £70K - £100K.

Application Instructions

Please do send your CV to us in Word format along with your salary and availability.