Lead Solutions Architect, Consulting

Lead Solutions Architect, Consulting

Cognizant Consulting

At Cognizant, our consultants orchestrate the capabilities to truly change the game across strategy, design, technology and industry/functional knowledge to deliver insight at speed and solutions at scale. Our consulting services elevate the unique abilities and business aspirations of customers and employees and build relationships based on trust and value.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Shaping, leading and delivering value through technology advisory consultancy and through guiding transformational delivery engagements.
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship building skills at senior levels that will enable consensus building and shaping technology direction.
• Leading in the development and presentation of client proposals collaborating with teams across our business.
• Leading in the development of collateral to support Technology Consulting ‘go to market’ propositions and service offerings.
• Farming of accounts - working with account teams to support opportunity identification, qualification and sales.
• Contribute to the development of practice members’ skills to ensure a consistency of service delivery and expertise. Active coaching and mentoring of junior members of the team.
• Develop, implement and continually refine a coherent approach and appropriate frameworks to support business transformation proposals, that includes presentations, specimen RFI/RFP content, methodologies, toolkits and deliverables.
• The Solution Architect will have a strong foundation in the design of microservice and event-driven architectures, implemented in Java on AWS. They will have experience of creating high-level designs (HLDs) from functional and non-functional requirements, following standards and principles to guide the design. They will own the design and be able to defend design choices at architecture assurance forums (e.g., TDA).

Core skills and experience:

• Architecture design (HLD, SAD).
• Cloud-native (Microservice, EDA).
• Java, frameworks (Spring, React).
• SQL/NoSQL, RDBMS (RDS, PostgreSQL).
• APIs (REST, GraphQL).
• Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Agile methods (SCRUM).
• Sparx EA (UML).
• Design methods (OOD, ERD).
• Design patterns (Integration, GoF).

Desirable skills and experience:

• AWS Certified Solution Architect.
• Exposure to Python, Tableau.
• Java security (e.g., JCA, JAAS, JSSE, OWASP).
• Familiarity with TOGAF, DDD. The Solution Architect must be comfortable drafting documents, preparing presentations, researching IT architecture and technology topics, and providing oversight to development teams. They must have the ability to abstract complex themes, problem solve, distil key discussion points, organise work, deliver to tight deadlines, and communicate with non-technical senior stakeholders.

Security Clearance:

Please note that candidates must hold or be able to gain UK SC level Security Clearance or higher. Therefore we can only accept applications from British passport holders who meet this criteria.