Lead Solutions Architect

Midland Computer Services is a managed services provider with 510 employees, supporting more than 1,500 client organisations across the UK. Headquartered in London, the company has grown since 2007 by acquiring regional IT providers.

Job summary:

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Lead Solutions Architect. We're looking for someone who has built systems themselves and can still go deep in a technical review. Employment is through our payroll partner in India. Salary is paid monthly in Indian rupees. You will need to be available during UK office hours, at least until 3:00 PM GMT.

Duties:

• Guide delivery teams through implementation and answer design questions.
• Align solutions with enterprise standards, security controls and data governance.
• Track technical debt and propose remediation roadmaps.
• Produce architecture diagrams, decision records and high-level designs.
• Lead technical discovery workshops with customer stakeholders.

Minimum qualifications:

• 7+ years in software engineering, infrastructure or consulting, with at least three in an architecture role.
• Experience designing distributed systems, APIs and data flows.
• Understanding of security, identity and networking as they apply to architecture.
• Hands-on background in a language such as Java, C#, Python or JavaScript.
• Comfortable presenting to both executives and engineers.
• Strong diagramming and documentation skills (Lucidchart, draw, C4 model)

Preferred qualifications:

• AWS Solutions Architect Professional or Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification.
• Kubernetes and microservices architecture.
• Data platform design with Snowflake or Databricks.

₹21.5-29 LPA

Compensation and benefits:

• Company laptop.
• Wellness allowance.
• Annual learning budget.
• Annual team retreat.
• Two weeks of paid leave at year end.

Due to the number of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Midland Computer Services.