Solutions Architect - #1753765

We are looking for an experienced Senior Solutions Architect with over 16+ years of experience in designing and delivering robust, reliable, scalable and cloud-native solutions. The candidate should have good technical understanding of various tools and technologies including cloud service offering from various providers. The candidate should have a strategic mindset and the ability to collaborate with senior stakeholders, experience contributing to proposals, RFI (Request for Information) responses and bids, along with a strong grasp of architecture frameworks such as TOGAF and familiarity with GDS standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and lead the development of enterprise-scale solutions using Spring Boot Java, Node.js, AWS, event-driven and Microservices Architecture


• Engage with public sector clients to translate business challenges into secure, reliable and scalable architectural solutions


• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams including Delivery Leads, Business Analysts, Developers, Testers and DevOps engineers


• Respond to RFI, RFP and bid requests, contributing architecture overviews, solution design documents and technical estimates


• Support proposal creation by defining solution scope, identifying key risks & assumptions and presenting high level solutions.


• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure alignment with compliance, security and data governance standards.


• Advocate and implement best practices in solution design, performance tuning, and maintainability.


• Ensure architectural documentation is clear, complete, and maintained


• Participate in architecture reviews, technical governance and the creation of reusable solution patterns.


• Keep up to date with emerging technologies and apply relevant innovations in client environments.


• Apply TOGAF or similar frameworks in designing and documenting architecture


• Drive innovation and contribute to organisation-wide initiatives and capability building

Required Experience & Skills:

• 16+ years’ experience as an solution architecture


• Proven technical leadership in Spring Boot, Node.js, REST APIs and AWS (including Lambda, S3, RDS, EventBridge, ECS Fargate, Secret Manager, API Gateway etc).


• Experience designing event-driven, microservices-based architectures and working with event stores.


• Demonstrable experience delivering complex solutions for private & public sector clients.


• Strong experience preparing and presenting technical responses for bids, proposals, and RFIs.


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to interact effectively with both technical teams and senior stakeholders.


• Experience in working in Agile methodologies and working with multidisciplinary delivery teams


• Comfortable managing relationships with delivery leads, practice heads, and client-side leadership.


• Knowledge of TOGAF or other architectural frameworks.


• Passion for staying updated with emerging technologies and applying them in solutioning.

Desirable / Nice to Have:

• Familiarity with GDS (Government Digital Services) guidelines and assessment processes


• AWS Solutions Architect – Professional or Associate certification


• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)


• Experience with hybrid/multi-cloud solutions