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.