Solutions Architect

Jas Gujral; City Of London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An international consultancy in Central London seeks a Senior Solutions Architect with over 20 years of experience. Responsibilities include developing customer proposals, solution architecture, and aligning IT with business strategies. The ideal candidate excels in Application Development and has strong communication skills. Salary range is £90K - £120K. Please send your CV in Word format along with salary expectations and availability.

Qualifications

• 20+ years of Solutions Architecture experience or equivalent in customer-facing roles.
• Vertical domain knowledge in Financial Services will be an advantage.
• In-depth experience in developing web/mobile applications or platforms.

Responsibilities

• Engage with sales, practice, and delivery teams through the pre-sales process.
• Develop customer proposals including solution architecture and timelines.
• Build a trusted advisor relationship with business and technology leaders.

Skills

Solutions Architecture

Communication skills

Application Development

Agile methodology

Education

Bachelor's or master’s degree in engineering

Tools

Java/J2EE

.NET

Oracle

MySQL

MongoDB

Cassandra

Job description

Solutions Architect

Our Client is an international consultancy with over 3000 employees. They are now looking to recruit a Senior Solutions Architect to based at the Company’s Central London Offices.

Overview

Solutions Architect role with extensive and deep expertise in Application Development areas.

Responsibilities

• Work on opportunities along with 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 roadmap, delivery approach and other artifacts
• Understand business and technology issues / challenges and translate that to 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 established solution vision
• Read / write code and leverage various design patterns where appropriate
• Ability to read/write code and expertise with various design patterns

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
• In-depth, hands-on experience in developing web / mobile applications or platform with either Java/J2EE or .NET tech stack and database technologies such as Oracle, MySQL, etc.
• Exposure to polyglot programming languages like Scala, Python and Golang will be a plus
• Ability to read/write code and expertise with various design patterns
• Have used NoSQL database such as MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.

Ability to travel up to 40%

• Familiarity with architecture modelling 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 it 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)

The Clients offices as based in Holborn – Central London.

The salary for this position will be based on expertise and will be in the range £90K - £120K.

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