Solution Architect (Principal Consultant)

The Role

We are recruiting an ambitious and technically accomplished Solutions Architect to join our Digital business unit as a Principal Consultant. You will lead the design and delivery of scalable, secure, and cloud-native platforms across Energy (including Low Carbon and UK regulatory systems), Financial Services, Public Sector, and Healthcare domains.

This is a strategic and hands-on role, central to enabling successful digital change initiatives for our clients. You’ll work with a team of experts to architect solutions that bridge business strategy with technical execution—while contributing to governance, delivery, and continuous improvement across a fast-evolving landscape.

Responsibilities

Domain and functional experience

• Lead the design and delivery of platforms across domains, be it Energy, Finance, Public Sector, Healthcare or other domains.
• Define and communicate clear solution requirements to support technology-enabled change.
• Act as a functional and technical expert across project implementation and release cycles.
• Set up and manage technical governance frameworks and programme-level architecture.
• Participate in design reviews, identifying risks, dependencies, and improvement opportunities.
• Architect cloud-native systems using Azure, AWS, and Oracle Cloud.
• Apply Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles.
• Design event-driven systems using Kafka and Pub/Sub.
• Lead API design, integration strategies, and legacy modernization to microservices.
• Contribute to Disaster Recovery planning and platform resilience.
• Implement Identity and Access Management (IDAM) and enterprise security architecture.
• Support data architecture using Databricks, Snowflake, ETL pipelines, and Big Data tools.
• Champion Data Governance practices including classification, cataloging, and lineage.
• Ensure compliance with ISO 27001, GDPR, PCI DSS, and other security standards.
• Embed DevSecOps principles into CI/CD pipelines and platform delivery.
• Produce High-Level and Low-Level Designs (HLD/LLD) and Solution Architecture Documents (SAD).

Competitive Salary- plus bonus and excellent benefits package