Senior Solutions Architect

Senior 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.

Application Development 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"


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


• " Application dev 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 platform 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 database such as MongoDB, Cassandra, etc."

Key Responsibilities

• " 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"

Requirements

• " 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 Clients offices as based in Holborn - Central London.

The salary for this position will be based on expertise and will be in the range £70K - £100K.