Overview
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Salary and Location
Salary: competitive depending upon experience + benefits
Location: hybrid (home-based & working with Kerv Digital office/customer site visits as required) UK HQ, Seven House, 18 High Street, Longbridge, B31 2UQ
Who We Are
Dive into a world where technology meets innovation. At Kerv Digital, we are problem solvers and we transform complex challenges into seamless digital experiences. We utilise a powerful blend of Power Platform, DevOps, Data experiences, and Software Engineering to create business solutions that resonate with our clients while delivering value. With roots in Birmingham and global branches, we are part of the Kerv Group, a dynamic £112m revenue technology consultancy with over 700 professionals, partnering with 800+ sector leaders. We are proud to hold Great Place to Work certifications in the UK and India.
The Role / Who We Are Looking For
As a rapidly growing, award-winning Employer of Choice, we’re expanding our technical leadership capacity to govern multi-project engagements, support existing customers, and onboard new customers and team members. We are deeply technical and outwardly facing, so an effective Principal Architect will have prior consultancy experience, hands-on delivery, demonstrable pre-sales success, and strong relationships with our primary partner, Microsoft. They will have learned their craft by doing and will contribute at all levels of engagement, willing to pitch in to support teammates when needed.
Day To Day This Will Include
* Designing and setting up multi-year transformation and software development programmes
* Pre-sales driven technical management of early customer engagements (including bid writing)
* Providing commercial and technical assurance to solution architects and other technical roles on key projects
* Underwriting technical/solution risks
* Assuring a solid, scalable release management process with DevSecOps
* Identifying and flagging potential IP opportunities with the products team
* Assuring solution compliance with KD architectural principles
* Contributing to the technical leadership team to shape sustainable growth
* Providing consultancy to end-client organisations on managing the transition to CI & Support as managed service; and licensing requirements and utilisation/optimisation
* Supporting the Sector leadership team and Programme Management in defining new phases of work with existing customers and bridging sales-to-delivery handover
* Providing platform expertise in Microsoft Dynamics (Customer Service), Dataverse, Power Pages
Our Solution Principles
We are an architecturally and governance mature organisation with multiple independent accreditations. Our Principal Architects identify with a core set of principles, including:
* Putting the customer first, speaking their language, and understanding their needs (and challenging them when needed)
* Being honest with each other and with our customers
* Not reinventing the wheel; leverage existing solutions where possible
* Secure by design and in-depth
* Agile, repeatable, testable consumer-grade outcomes
* Equality and sustainability from the outset
* Governance is good, bad documentation is bad business
* Always think ahead, Build Future
What We Look For In Our People
* Happiest working under their own direction, but fully supported when needed
* An obvious attention to detail; obsess about the little things
* An escalation handler, able to achieve win-win outcomes by utilising skills across the team
* Ability to work effectively with remote teams in India
* Ability to work flexibly to deliver on-time to tight timescales
What We Can Do For You
We’re a transparent, honest and fiercely equal employer that believes in providing the best possible work experience for our employees:
* RealFlexibility – family-first organisation; you can work when and where you want
* Awesome Environment – easy-going culture; experts at what we do; care about our work
* Interesting Work – involvement with household-name customers; projects with real-world impact
* Great Benefits – including choose-your-own tech for devices, well-stocked provisions, professional development and private healthcare (some benefits after probation)
* Recognition & Growth – Great Place to Work in the UK and India; culture of innovation, collaboration and growth
Join us at Kerv Digital, where we don’t just build groundbreaking technology – we build the future.
Equality and Inclusion
At Kerv, we value diversity, equality and belonging, and we promote an inclusive culture through collaboration and creating exceptional solutions together. By applying, you agree to Kerv Digital’s privacy notice.
Legal and Role Details
* Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
* Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting
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