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.

Overview

Solutions Architect role with extensive and deep expertise in Application Development areas.

Responsibilities

• Work on opportunities along with sales, practice, and 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 and 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
• Read / write code and leverage various design patterns where appropriate
• Ability to read/write code and expertise with various design patterns

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
• 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.

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.