Senior Solutions Architect – VR

Own the full cloud software lifecycle, from requirements and architecture to delivery, operations, and continuous improvement. Design cloud?native solutions, guide full?stack engineering and CI/CD, embed security and cost optimisation, uphold SLAs and budgets, and mentor teams. Extensive expertise across Azure/AWS/GCP, modern JavaScript, APIs, containers, and Dev Ops.

This role leads end-to-end cloud solution design and software architecture, partnering across internal functions, platform teams, global IT, and external vendors. You’ll ensure solutions are secure, scalable, standards-aligned, and cost-effective; meeting SLA and budget expectations, while enabling modern engineering practices and continuous improvement.

• Design and maintain cloud native architectures aligned with group standards and component catalogues.
• Provide end to end architectural guidance across client, server, APIs, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Produce architecture artefacts: cloud designs, application designs, and technical backlogs.

• Shape scalable cloud native applications and guide clean, maintainable, and secure code across front and back end.
• Ensure performance, resilience, observability, debugging, and responsive UX best practices.
• Oversee modern front end delivery (e.g., React based component libraries).
• Architect effective APIs, data models, and integration patterns.
• Recommend and govern responsible use of AI tooling for code generation within security and engineering standards.

• Embed secure authentication/authorisation patterns (e.g., JWT) and cloud security best practice.
• Participate in security reviews, component reviews, and cost optimisation cycles.
• Ensure compliance with corporate security rules, cloud governance, and architecture guidelines.

• Support product squads with solution design, troubleshooting, and modern Dev Ops workflows.
• Mentor engineers, uplift architecture and software engineering capability, and advise business stakeholders.
• Promote agile methods, automation, and platform first approaches.

• Identify improvements in software engineering processes, architecture patterns, cost efficiency, and system quality.
• Contribute to community best practice sharing across cloud and development groups.

• Degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Maths.
• Extensive experience in software or cloud engineering.
• Significant experience designing and delivering cloud-native applications on Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Strong proficiency with modern JavaScript frameworks (React.js, Node.js), and full-stack languages (Type Script, C#, Java, Python).
• Front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, XML) and back-end frameworks (Node.js, .NET).
• Container platforms (Kubernetes, Open Shift, ECS/Fargate).
• Dev Ops tooling (Git Hub, Azure Dev Ops, CI/CD pipelines).
• Secure API development (REST), distributed systems, and event driven patterns.
• SQL/noSQL databases (MySQL, Mongo
  
  DB) and cloud-native storage.
• Excellent communication, teamwork, and architectural documentation skills.
• Experience in upstream oil & gas domains preferred.
• Knowledge of multi-tier, highly available cloud solutions.
• Agile delivery experience.