Lead Solutions Architect (London (Hybrid Working) )
- London
- £115,000-130,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
Job Ref 43717DescriptionLead Solutions ArchitectAre you a Lead Architect with experience with Azure and a background leading Architecture teams? If so we have an exciting opportunity for you.We're supporting an International law firm based in Central London in their search for a Lead Solutions Architect.The scope of the role will be to manage and develop a cross functional team of architects and to be responsible for leading the selection and design of Enterprise SaaS platforms. This will involve:
- Mentoring and developing a team of Architects across data, applications and solutions domains.
- Fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture within the architecture team.
- Driving the development and evolution of the solutions architecture roadmap aligned with business goals.
- Ensuring that all strategy, architecture, standards, patterns, principles and roadmaps are kept current and fully understood by all relevant teams within the firm.
- Creating and maintain architectural documentation as artefacts that relate to network topology, architectural designs, patterns, principles and standards and technology selection.
- Competitive salary of £120,000 - £130,000 depending on experience plus a comprehensive benefits package.
- Flexibility with hybrid working - enjoy a balanced approach - circa 2 days a week in the office
- Be the subject matter expert in providing architectural guidance and assurance at both project and strategic level.
- Opportunity to work for a stable, respected firm in the legal sector
- Proven experience in a senior or lead architecture role within a complex enterprise environment.
- Proven experience in creating, line managing, developing and motivating Architecture teams including conducting performance reviews, setting goals and career development.
- Broad knowledge across data architecture, application architecture, and integration patterns.
- Experience with architectural frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, or similar.
- Deep Experience with Microsoft Azure architecture, landing zones, governance and enterprise-scale architecture.
- Experience in leading the selection of SaaS solutions/applications whilst ensuring conformance with enterprise standards.
- Experience with cloud native design, microservices, containers (AKS) and serverless computing.
- Thorough knowledge of applications integrations and the API economy.
- Hands on and design experience of services within Microsoft Azure leveraging services like Logic Apps, Durable Functions, APIM, Containers and other PaaS type services.
- Experience in leveraging both SQL and Document Databases and leveraging the Power Platform for low code data dashboarding.