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.

You will have extensive and deep expertise in the following Application Development areas:

• 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
• Solution architect with broad expertise in a wide range of digital technologies in areas of application platform development, web and mobile development, cloud, integration, security, etc.
• 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.

Responsibilities include:

• Work on opportunities along with sales, practice, 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 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 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) 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 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 communication skills (e.g. active listening, requirements elicitation, oral, written, presentation, workshop facilitation, consensus building) are essential.

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.