Solutions Architect with Pre Sales Experience

Our Client is an international consultancy with over 3000 employees. They are now looking to recruit a Senior Solutions Architect with some Pre-Sales experience 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.

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 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.

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 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).

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.