Solutions Architect

Solutions Architect

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

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 & 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.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors or master's degree in engineering (computer, electronics, etc.).
• 20+ years of Solutions Architecture experience (or equivalent enterprise architecture experience) 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 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).

Technical Expertise:

• Expertise in application architecture using modern technologies 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.
• Application development experience with at least one of the cloud providers - Amazon AWS or MS Azure.
• Understanding of distributed computing paradigm and exposure to building highly scalable systems.
• Experience with platform modernization and cloud migration projects.
• Expertise in Agile development methodologies like TDD, BDD, Performance/Load testing, etc.
• DevOps experience - CI/CD, Test Automation, Containerization - tools and processes.
• Should be conversant with emerging technologies - chatbots, voice/conversational interfaces, RPA, Machine Learning, etc.
• In-depth, hands-on experience in developing web/mobile applications or platforms 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 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 £90K - £120K. Please do send your CV to us in Word format along with your salary and availability.