Senior Solution Architect

As a Cloud Native Enterprise Architect or Senior Solution Architect, you will advise customers and define and deliverhybrid-cloud strategies and architectures aligned with their business and technology requirements. You will design, guide the implementation of, and optimise cloud-native solutions that improve scalability, resilience, security, and operational efficiency across complex enterprise environments.

This position requires a strong blend of technical expertise, strategic thinking, and leadership to work closely with cross-functional teams in IT, security, and business units to drive cloud transformation initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the architecture and design of cloud native, ensuring alignment with our customer’s business requirements.

• Advise, develop, integrate and implement solutions in the cloud native technology areas ensuring seamless interoperability, security, and data governance.

• Provide architectural oversight for the design, deployment, and lifecycle management in cloud native technology areas, focusing on scalability, security, and performance.

• Collaborate with business leaders to understand enterprise-level requirements and translate them into effective, scalable cloud native architecture.

• Ensure that solutions adhere to industry standards, regulatory compliance (e.g., ISO, GDPR), and best practices for environment security, data privacy, and infrastructure resilience.

• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to teams involved in cloud native solutions, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards.

• Develop and maintain comprehensive architectural documentation, including blueprints, guidelines, and best practices for using these artefacts as standard referenceacross the delivery teams.

• Monitor industry trends and innovations to drive continuous improvement and stay ahead of technological advancements.

1. Cloud-native platforms and containers - architecture, implementation, and operations experience with Kubernetes and enterprise distributions such as Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, SUSE Rancher, or Rafay. Experience should include cluster design, multi-tenancy, networking, storage, security, observability, upgrades, resilience, and workload lifecycle management.

Platform engineering and application delivery - experience designing automated developer platforms and software delivery workflows using GitOps, continuous integration and continuous delivery, policy as code, secrets management, container registries, software supply-chain controls, service mesh, observability, and site reliability engineering practices., * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field (Master’s degree preferred).

• Senior level experience in IT architecture, with focus on Cloud native solutions.

• Deep expertise in above-mentioned technology areas , with a proven track record of architecting and deploying large-scale solutions in cloud native areas for customers.

• Deep knowledge and hands on experience of virtualization technologies (e.g., VMware, KVM, Hyper-V, Nutanix) and software-defined infrastructure (SDN, SDS).

• Strong background in security best practices, including identity management, access control, encryption, and compliance frameworks.

• Excellent understanding of networking, storage, and compute within cloud environments and how to optimize for performance and cost-efficiency.

• Strong experience in automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies using tools like Ansible, Terraform, or similar.

• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels of the organization.

Preferred Skills & Certifications:

• Practical working experience and knowledge of Enterprise and solution architecture

• Industry specific knowledge - FSI, MDI, CME, etc

• Business continuity, risk management

• Communication, technical leadership, problem solving skills

• Stakeholder, customer escalation mgmt

• Familiarity with enterprise-level workload migrations from Vmware to other virtualization platforms/containers, etc

• Understanding of AI / Gen AI, its impact on security,

• Understanding of DevOps and DevSecOps principles and their application

• Cloud native related certifications such as CKA, CKS, RHCA, etc

• TOGAF or architecture related certification, * How many years of experience do you have as Senior Solution Architect?
• Do you have the right to live and work in United Kingdom?
• Can you able to join in 30 days?