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 based at the Company’s Central London Offices.

You will extensive and deep Expertise in 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 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.
  
  
  

• 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 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)

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 £90K - £120K.

Please do send your CV to us in Word format along with you salary and availability.