Senior Solutions Architect - Pre-Sales & Cloud Native

Free-Work; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Free-Work in Central London (Holborn) is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect with Pre Sales experience. You will lead architecture discussions, translating business needs into scalable technology solutions while collaborating with sales, practice and delivery teams through the pre-sales cycle.

The role requires deep expertise in cloud-native development, microservices, API management and DevOps, with hands-on work in Java/J2EE or .NET and databases like Oracle/MySQL.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in engineering or related field.
• Extensive experience in enterprise architecture and pre-sales support.
• Experience in client-facing roles and global delivery environments.

Responsibilities

• Work with sales, practice, and delivery teams through the pre-sales process to develop customer proposals and solution architecture.
• Translate requirements into architecture diagrams, implementation roadmaps, and delivery approaches.
• Engage with business and IT leaders to align solution architecture with strategic direction.
• Develop customer proposals, pitch decks, estimating effort, and resourcing timelines.
• Stay engaged through project lifecycle to ensure alignment with solution vision.

Skills

Cloud native development

Microservices

API management

Kafka

REST APIs

AWS

Azure

DevOps

CI/CD

NoSQL

Education

Bachelors or Masters in engineering

Tools

TOGAF

Job description

Free-Work in Central London (Holborn) is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect with Pre Sales experience. You will lead architecture discussions, translating business needs into scalable technology solutions while collaborating with sales, practice and delivery teams through the pre-sales cycle.

The role requires deep expertise in cloud-native development, microservices, API management and DevOps, with hands-on work in Java/J2EE or .NET and databases like Oracle/MySQL.