Principal Solutions Architect

Location: London, UK; Conditions: UK

Company

hirify.global provides technology consulting and software engineering services for complex digital platforms and modernization programs.

What you will do

• Lead architecture discovery for a complex technology landscape, initially focused on web platform modernization.
• Assess applications, platform services, AWS infrastructure, integration patterns, technical debt, scalability, resilience, performance, and operational challenges.
• Define target-state architectures and modernization approaches covering replatforming, refactoring, cloud migration, and incremental replacement.
• Design scalable, resilient, and secure solutions across AWS, APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and other core platform services.
• Translate assessments into prioritized work packages, technical roadmaps, implementation strategies, migration plans, estimates, and commercial scopes.
• Provide technical direction to distributed engineering teams and lead workshops, architecture reviews, and solution design discussions with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture, including significant senior architecture leadership experience.
• Proven experience delivering complex application and platform modernization programs.
• Strong hands-on AWS architecture experience, including cloud-native application design and infrastructure considerations.
• Broad technical experience with web platforms, APIs, microservices, distributed systems, modern application architectures, integration patterns, and service-oriented design.
• Experience architecting high-volume, business-critical, customer-facing platforms.
• Experience assessing complex legacy environments and defining incremental modernization strategies while understanding technical interdependencies, caveats, and historical architectural variation.
• Ability to translate architectural recommendations into executable engineering work packages.
• Experience leading technical discovery and solution design where requirements are initially ambiguous.
• Experience providing architectural leadership to distributed engineering teams, engaging CTOs and senior engineering leaders, and supporting technical estimation and delivery planning.

Nice to have

• Experience in travel, transportation, e-commerce, or other high-volume transactional environments.
• Experience with search-intensive platforms and distributed search architectures.
• Familiarity with AWS services for compute, containers, networking, databases, messaging, and observability.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and modern DevOps practices.
• Experience with CMS modernization and headless web architectures.
• Knowledge of commerce, identity, payment, and fulfilment architectures.
• Experience with event-driven systems and real-time data processing.
• AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted software development and emerging agentic engineering practices.
• Experience in technology consulting or professional services environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on, advisory, and delivery-focused collaboration style.
• Work with architecture, engineering, and transformation leadership on the client side.
• Collaboration with distributed engineering teams in a medium-sized team of 10–20 people.
• Regular architecture workshops, reviews, and solution design discussions.