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.