Solutions Architect (Enterprise Modernization)
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<div> <div class="description content"> <p>The Solution architect for Enterprise Modernization in Europe is a senior subject matter expert responsible for technical excellence, solution integrity, and capability development within the service line.</p> <p>This hands-on role leads high-impact client engagements, contributes to pre-sales and solution design, and ensures the regional adoption and evolution of service-specific delivery frameworks, tools, and best practices. The role brings deep expertise in modernization strategies and execution in large legacy systems modernization programs, serving as a trusted technical advisor to both clients and internal teams. This role is key to ensuring delivery quality, enabling service adoption, and evolving the technical maturity of the offering.</p> </div> <h2 id="job-responsibilities">Job responsibilities</h2> <div class="job-responsibilities content"> <ul> <li>Provides technical guidance on Enterprise Systems Modernization.</li> <li>Supports delivery teams in solving complex client problems.</li> <li>Contributes to solution design, proposals, and pre-sales activities.</li> <li>Develops and refines service accelerators and reference architectures.</li> <li>Mentors engineers and architects within the service domain.</li> <li>Acts as a bridge between delivery teams and global service development.</li> <li>Measures success by technical quality, asset adoption, and talent uplift.</li> <li>Requires 10+ years of experience in software engineering or technical consulting.</li> <li>Requires 3+ years in Enterprise Systems Modernization advisory.</li> <li>Focuses on technical depth in modernization strategies and enterprise solution architecture.</li> </ul> </div> <h2 id="job-qualifications">Job qualifications</h2> <div class="job-qualifications content"> <h3 id="technical-skills">Technical Skills</h3> <div class="qualifications inner-content"> <ul> <li>Experience supporting solution design and technical delivery in complex enterprise environments.</li> <li>Proven ability to build, extend, and support delivery tools, frameworks, and reusable assets.</li> <li>Deep technical expertise in modernization strategies, cloud architecture, and platform thinking.</li> <li>Strong engineering skills, architecture patterns knowledge, and toolchain understanding.</li> <li>Excellent communication to translate technical insights into actionable business decisions.</li> <li>Collaborative with mentorship abilities and solution-oriented with asset contribution commitment.</li> </ul> </div> &l
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