Solution Architect

We're an award-winning innovative tech consultancy - a team of creative problem solvers. Since 1993 we've been finding better, more sustainable ways to solve complex technology problems for some of the world's leading organisations and delivered solutions that millions of people use every day.

In the last 30 years we won several awards, including a prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category for our Enterprise Agile delivery approach.

Operating from 26 locations across the world, we bring together teams of creative experts with diverse backgrounds and experiences, who enjoy working and learning in our collaborative and open culture and are committed to world-class delivery.

We want to continue to grow our team with people just like you!

About the Role

We're looking for architects with strong technical knowledge, full life-cycle project experience and excellent communication skills to bridge the gap between client and engineering teams.

You'll bring extensive experience operating within the technology industry across various ecosystems, including architectural styles such as microservices, modulith, serverless, and event-driven and data architectures. You'll be proficient in architectural patterns including CQRS, event sourcing, service mesh and the Saga pattern, amongst others.

You'll be flexible in the types of engagements undertaken - from leading the design of cutting-edge greenfield platforms to performing Delivery Assurance tasks in multi-vendor environments. This includes experience with agile methodologies, DevOps practices, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

You should be able to advise on data principles, governance, patterns, and technologies, and how these shape or support architectures you design. You'll have hands-on experience with public cloud services like AWS, Azure or GCP.

Additionally, you will possess a deep knowledge and focus on security and privacy, including best practices and regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA) and their applications in data platform implementations. This also encompasses experience with identity and access management (IAM), encryption, and data masking techniques.

About You

As one of our Architects, you will use your broad technical knowledge, full lifecycle project experience and excellent communication skills to bridge the gap between client and internal delivery managers, enterprise architects, operations teams, UX consultants and developers.

Successful applicants should be able to evidence the following:

• Ability to be versatile, comfortable evaluating a new Open Source technology in a rapid technical spike, presenting to a CIO on a package selection, or working with a technical tester and a support desk engineer to debug a time-critical P1 issue.
• Confidently able to serve as a leader of an agile delivery organisation, ensuring that Agile processes and Product focused lifecycles deliver the right value, at the right time.
• As a technical authority, you lead by example and inspire delivery teams to create great software products that demonstrate the art of the possible.
• You enjoy working in the technology industry and are constantly adapting your skillset in line with industry trends.
• You have energy and a pragmatic, delivery-focused attitude that wins the respect of those around you.
• You're willing, and capable of being hands-on when you need to be.
• You balance innovation and intellectual rigour with realism.
• You love technology and want to keep on learning, with a genuine interest in understanding the challenges your users face and how you can help them.

Some of the Perks

• Flexible benefits allowance - you choose how to spend your allowance (additional pension contributions, healthcare, dental and more).
• Industry leading health and wellbeing plan - we partner with several wellbeing support functions to cater to each individual's need, including 24/7 GP services, mental health support, and more.
• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Hybrid working - Our roles are not fully remote as we take pride in the tight knit communities we have created at our local offices.
• Discounts - we have preferred rates from dozens of retail, lifestyle, and utility brands.
• An industry-leading referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals.
• Flexible holiday buy/sell option.
• Electric vehicle scheme.
• Training opportunities and incentives - we support professional certifications across engineering and non-engineering roles, including unlimited access to O'Reilly.
• Giving back - the ability to get involved nationally and regionally with partnerships to get people from diverse backgrounds into tech.
• We have a busy social calendar that you can choose to join- quarterly town halls/squad nights out/weekends away with families included/office get togethers.

At BJSS, the rewards aren't based on your time served, they're based on merit and the strength of your contributions. In exchange for bringing your best ideas to the most challenging problems, you'll be compensated with a competitive salary and the knowledge that you'll be rewarded and recognized for giving it your all.

Benefits that suit you

Aside from the standard annual leave allowance, life assurance and pension, our flexible benefits allowance lets you decide which benefits you want, with options across industry-leading health and wellbeing, buying and selling annual leave, electric vehicle scheme, GymFlex gym membership, as well as discounts across dozens of retail, lifestyle, and utility brands.

Bring your authentic self to work

We've built an environment where respect and inclusivity are paramount, where fantastic people of all kinds are free to be themselves and get on with doing a great job.

Make your mark

Clients trust us to get the hard things done. And if you join us, you'll be faced with challenges only people like you have the drive to solve.

Forge your own path

At BJSS, we don't believe in job titles or hierarchies, so how you progress in the company is entirely down to you.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES & DIVERSITY STATEMENT

BJSS is committed to equal opportunities and diversity so we want to ensure that our recruitment and selection processes are fair to all who wish to apply.