Solution Architect

Altura Partners Ltd; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global cybersecurity vendor is seeking a Solutions Architect to enhance their European Post-Sales team. This role focuses on ensuring customer satisfaction and shaping product direction by solving complex technical challenges. Key responsibilities include developing GUI components, writing scripts, and analyzing network architectures. Candidates should possess a bachelor's degree, 6–8 years of experience, and have strong skills in networking fundamentals and scripting languages like Python and JavaScript. The compensation ranges from £90-110k base plus a bonus and benefits package.

Benefits

Bonus

Benefits package

Qualifications

• 6–8 years of relevant professional experience.
• Strong background in customer-facing roles with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals and common application protocols.

Responsibilities

• Develop advanced graphical user interface components.
• Write complex trigger or event-based scripts.
• Build intermediate-level integrations using external REST APIs.
• Assess customer network architectures and application stacks.

Skills

Customer-facing roles

Interpersonal skills

Scripting languages (Python, JavaScript)

Network fundamentals

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Role Summary

Our client are a leading, global cybersecurity vendor in the network security space, looking to add additional resource in the UK to support the European Post-Sales team.

The Solutions Architecture team operates as part of the post-sales organisation—prioritising customer outcomes and long-term success. As a Solutions Architect, you’ll play a key role in ensuring customer satisfaction, shaping product direction, and strengthening the company’s overall market position. This role involves solving complex business and technical challenges across a wide range of industries and technology environments. You can expect consistently varied and engaging work.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop advanced graphical user interface components
• Write complex trigger or event-based scripts
• Build intermediate-level integrations using external REST APIs
• Apply an intermediate understanding of networking and application design
• Assess customer network architectures and application stacks; identify strategies for extracting high-value telemetry from network traffic
• Analyze and document industry-specific applications across multiple verticals; create technical materials to support product enhancement and marketing
• Perform root-cause analysis on high-impact technical issues and guide customers toward effective resolutions
• Create custom tools using Python, JavaScript, and related APIs to extend platform capabilities
• Build tailored data analysis workflows for real-time monitoring of technical and business conditions
• Produce high-quality data visualizations for investigative and strategic purposes
• Develop automation to streamline repeatable tasks and increase focus on high-value solution development
• Deliver hands‑on enablement workshops for customer teams

Required Qualifications

• 6–8 years of relevant professional experience
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Strong background in customer-facing roles with excellent interpersonal skills
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (OSI layers 2–4) and common application protocols (e.g., HTTP, SQL, CIFS / NFS, HL7, caching protocols, DNS)
• Familiarity with principles of distributed systems, web technologies, databases, and application communication models
• Proficiency with scripting languages such as Python and JavaScript
• Excellent written communication abilities
• High degree of independence, initiative, and ownership mindset

£90-110k base dependant on experience + bonus + benefits package