Director of Solution Architecture & Technology Consulting

Location: Greater London

Are you a technology leader who enjoys solving complex architectural challenges and driving large scale digital solutions for clients? Would you like to work in one of the world’s most prominent and entrepreneurial providers of digital platform engineering, software development, cloud and AI-enabled transformation services whilst helping transform the direction of our Architecture Practice in the UK?

EPAM is looking for a technically hands-on Director of Solution Architecture & Technology Consulting in London reporting to the UK Head of Architecture Practice. You will partner closely with senior technical leaders, Architects and Engineers to help drive strategic growth with existing and future clients, push forward our architectural initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals and enhancing technological capabilities.

The role requires a strong background in solution architecture, software development, client engagement, technology consulting and stakeholder management.

Our Solution Architects must have the ability to engage in opening discussions, identify technology needs, recommend the right technology choices and deliver cutting edge solutions.

We operate a flexible work environment made up of home working, office-based team collaboration and client site interaction mainly in the London area.

Responsibilities Lead the implementation of Architecture solutions from establishing project requirements and goals, to solution  go-live”, across different industry sectors depending on where the core client demand is coming from

Take an active role in aligning closely with EPAM’s wider leadership teams to help shape the business/technology/strategic direction and footprint across client projects with varying degrees of maturity

Use your experience as a hands-on technologist to demonstrate strong credibility working with engineering teams up to CxO level both in EPAM and within our clients

Direct our technology consultancy efforts in both sales/pre-sales pursuits, create and present architecture proposals and proof-of-concepts as required

Provide consulting services covering areas such as architectural review, audit, architectural road-mapping and technical governance across multiple projects

Formulate and present technology business cases across architecture, technology, strategy, IT organisational change management

Lead teams of Solution Architects and Technology Consultants, providing them with guidance and direction to grow and thrive

Act as a liaison between delivery managers, product managers and development teams

Representing EPAM at internal and external conferences, enhancing our visibility and thought leadership in the industry

Requirements

Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science or similar or strong relevant work experience

Industry visionary, avid technologist at heart and a senior proven leader who can drive a Solution Architecture and Technology Consulting capability in a large consulting organisation

Proven experience acting as a hands-on Senior/Lead/Chief Architect, Director of Architecture/Technology Consulting or CTO with a strong foundation in software development (Java, .Net etc), platform delivery, architecture design, digital transformation and comfortable partnering with teams up to CxO level

Good industry experience, ideally in Banking/Financial Services or Insurance with excellent understanding of major functional capabilities and common platform solutions across those sectors

Experience with Microservice based architecture, designing enterprise services or integration capabilities using REST APIs and event-driven technology as well as leveraging native Cloud services (Azure, AWS or GCP), decentralised systems, and AI—particularly in the practical application of large…