Principal Architect - Technical

The Scc; United States; Hybrid; USD 133,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Large company benefits

Flexible benefits scheme

2 volunteering days

Job summary

The Scc in London is seeking a Principal Architect - Technical to lead strategy, architecture and governance engagements for client projects. You will work with Sales to drive consultancy opportunities and deliver across verticals in a hybrid environment.

Eligible candidates should have senior presales/consulting experience, board‑level presentation skills, and a broad IT services/architecture background. The role requires security clearance eligibility and provides extensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience in a professional services architecture role with presales/client consulting.
• Experience presenting technical solutions to tech and non-tech staff up to board level.
• Knowledge across end-to-end business operating models and processes.
• Expertise in at least one industry sector.
• Breadth of knowledge across IT services, technology domains, governance.
• Experience across programme and project management, delivery, architecture, and service management.

Responsibilities

• Engage directly with customers, often on speculative/pre-RFP requirements, to understand their business challenges and translate these into technology requirements.
• Advise customers on technology choices and options.
• Acting as a single point of contact for consultative presales engagements.
• Coordinating Business Unit presales where required.
• Developing customer proposals, statements of work, supporting cost models and defining proof of concept engagements where appropriate.
• Participate in bid responses working as part of a bid team.
• Deliver Consultancy engagements across the consultancy stack providing and producing consultancy recommendations - including but not limited to - strategies, roadmaps, business cases, as-is / to-be assessments, and high-level architecture blueprints.
• Work closely with colleagues in the delivery teams to ensure presales opportunities are handed over appropriately and with clarity in relation to the proposed solution, implementation approach, and customer engagement.
• Development of SCC's Consultancy propositions and associated collateral.
• Drive best practice, standards, and principles to assist SCC clients with achieving their transformation and maturity goal.
• Ensure that skills and knowledge are developed and kept up to date with market trends, customer demands, and BU standard solutions.

Skills

Presales / client consulting

Board-level communication

Programme & project management

Delivery & service management

Interpersonal communication

Job description

About The Role

We are actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone.

Role: Principal Architect - Technical

Location: London (SCC operate hybrid working, which comprises of a mix of office and home working)

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary Package: 100-120k plus large company benefits, a broad flexible benefits scheme, and 2 paid-for volunteering days a year

Hours: 9.00 am - 5.30 pm Monday - Friday

Interview Process: 2-stage process

Why SCC?

An inclusive workplace

Excellent package: solid basic and company benefits

Hybrid working & core hours in line with role requirements

Career development and life-long learning opportunities

Opportunity to join Europe's largest privately-owned IT Company

Role purpose:

The Principal Architect Technical, works with SCC's clients to develop their strategic goals, providing strategy, architecture and governance services using best practice approaches. Working closely with Sales colleagues to drive Strategic Consultancy opportunities and deliver engagements across all verticals.

• Please note - this role requires eligibility for security clearance!

The Principal Architect Technical, works within the SCC Consultancy Team with the purpose to ensure that we help our customers make the correct decisions relating to IT and business in the most efficient, risk-managed way. This involves development of our customers' architecture and IT services in partnership, to ensure that business strategy, objectives and benefits are met and that future business roadmaps can be achieved through effective IT services and business change.

Key responsibilities:

• Engage directly with customers, often on speculative/pre-RFP requirements, to understand their business challenges and translate these into technology requirements.
• Advise customers on technology choices and options.
• Acting as a single point of contact for consultative presales engagements.
• And coordinating Business Unit presales where required.
• Developing customer proposals, statements of work, supporting cost models and defining proof of concept engagements where appropriate.
• Participate in bid responses working as part of a bid team.
• Deliver Consultancy engagements across the consultancy stack providing and producing consultancy recommendations - including but not limited to - strategies, roadmaps, business cases, as-is / to-be assessments, and high-level architecture blueprints.
• Work closely with colleagues in the delivery teams to ensure presales opportunities are handed over appropriately and with clarity in relation to the proposed solution, implementation approach, and customer engagement.
• Development of SCC's Consultancy propositions and associated collateral.
• Drive best practice, standards, and principles to assist SCC clients with achieving their transformation and maturity goal.
• Ensure that skills and knowledge are developed and kept up to date with market trends, customer demands, and BU standard solutions.

Skills and experience:

• Proven experience of working in a professional services architecture role with a proportion of that time spent in a presales / client consulting capacity at a senior level.
• Experience of presenting technical solutions to both technology focused and non-technology focused personnel up to and including board level.
• Breadth of knowledge across end-to-end business operating models and processes.
• Able to demonstrate expertise in at least one industry sector.
• Breadth of knowledge across IT services and technology domains.
• Breadth of knowledge across technology best practice and governance.
• Able to demonstrate across programme and project management, delivery, architecture, and service management.

Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills. Not scared to pick up the phone and have a conversation.

About You

About Us

SCC is Europe's largest privately-owned IT business, based out of the new 7m HQ office in Birmingham and we help clients succeed through IT transformation and exceptional customer experiences. We are a business where innovation is greater as we combine unique ideas, people and disciplines. We are a global company that is passionate about IT and where we look to simplify the complex.

We are an equal opportunities employer

SCC is committed to providing equal opportunities and a proactive and inclusive approach to equality and diversity in employment.

No applicant or employee will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of a protected characteristic which are defined as sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, trade union membership or non-membership, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race and religion or belief.

If you are selected for interview, and need any reasonable adjustments made for your interview, please let the SCC Talent Acquisition team know, at the point of scheduling.