Enterprise Architect à Grande-Bretagne

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

• 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.

• 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.

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.

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