Software Engineering Solutions Architect (AWS & Python) Location: Near Heathrow Airport (Hybrid - 2-3 days onsite per week) Salary: Circa £110,000 + Benefits
About Us We are a specialist consultancy with a strong software engineering focus, delivering innovative, scalable, and future-proof solutions to clients across multiple sectors. Our team thrives on solving complex technical challenges, and we are now looking for a seasoned Solutions Architect with deep expertise in AWS and Python to help drive forward our next phase of growth and innovation.
The Role As a Solutions Architect, you will play a pivotal role in bridging our clients' business needs with robust, efficient, and secure cloud-native solutions. You will lead the design and implementation of software platforms and architectures, ensuring they are optimised for performance, scalability, and long-term value.
Key Responsibilities:
Work directly with clients to understand requirements, define solutions, and deliver architectural designs.
Develop and oversee end-to-end software architectures leveraging AWS cloud services.
Provide technical leadership across full project lifecycles, from design to implementation.
Deliver hands-on development and solution prototyping, primarily using Python.
Ensure best practices in cloud security, scalability, and cost optimisation.
Mentor and collaborate with engineering teams to uphold technical excellence.
About You You are a confident communicator and technical leader, capable of translating business challenges into actionable software designs. You are equally comfortable architecting large-scale systems as you are writing code to validate a solution.
Required Skills & Experience:
Proven experience as a Solutions Architect, ideally within consultancy or client-facing environments.
Strong knowledge of AWS cloud services, architecture patterns, and cost/security optimisation.
Excellent Python skills, with experience applying them to large-scale production systems.
Background in software engineering best practices: CI/CD, testing, code quality, and DevOps principles.
Experience designing scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant solutions.
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
Nice to Have:
Experience with microservices, containers (Docker, Kubernetes), or serverless technologies.
Exposure to other languages/technical stacks for flexibility in solution design.
Why Join Us?
Competitive salary circa £110k plus benefits.
Hybrid working model - 2-3 days per week from our modern site near Heathrow Airport.
Opportunity to engage with diverse industries and cutting-edge projects.
A collaborative environment that values innovation, expertise, and career development.
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