Job Description
Senior Solutions Architect with Pre Sales Experience
Our Client is an international consultancy with over 3000 employees.
They are now looking to recruit a Senior Solutions Architect with some Pre-Sales experience to be based at the Company's Central London Offices.
You will extensive and deep Expertise in following Application Development areas:
1. Expertise in application architecture using modern technologies such as cloud native development, 12 factor Apps, microservices, serverless, API management, Kafka, etc.
2. Deep knowledge of Microservices, Containers, REST APIs development, API Management tools (e.g. MuleSoft, Apigee), Kafka
3. 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.
4. Application dev experience with at least one of the cloud providers - Amazon AWS or MS Azure
5. Understanding of distributed computing paradigm and exposure to building highly scalable systems.
6. Experience with platform modernization and cloud migration projects
7. Expertise in Agile development methodologies like TDD, BDD, Performance/ Load testing etc.
8. DevOps experience - CI/ CD, Test Automation, Containerization - tools and processes
9. Should be conversant with emerging technologies - chatbots, voice/ conversational interfaces, RPA, Machine Learning, etc.
10. 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.
11. Exposure to polyglot programming languages like Scala, Python and Golang will be a plus
12. Ability to read/ write code and expertise with various design patterns
13. Have used NoSQL database such as MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.
Work on opportunities along with sales, practice, delivery teams through the pre-sales process
14. Develop customer proposals - solution architecture, pitch decks, estimating solution effort, resourcing and timelines
15. Translate requirements into solution architecture diagrams, implementation roadmap, delivery approach and other artifacts
16. Understand business & technology issues / challenges and translate that to modern technology solutions
17. Engage with business and IT groups to align solution architecture with strategic business direction
18. 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
19. Bachelors or master's degree in engineering (computer, electronics, etc.)
20. 20+ years of Solutions Architecture experience (or equivalent enterprise architecture experience) and in customer-facing roles
21. Vertical domain knowledge in Financial Services will be an advantage
22. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
23. Experience in client-driven large-scale application platform implementation projects
24. 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
25. Proven track record of designing / developing scalable solutions at the enterprise level
26. Demonstrated success in quickly understanding business needs and aligning it to technology solutions
27. 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.