Principal Consultant

About the Role (your why) We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Software Architect to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software development, having delivered many systems over your career using multiple technologies, with a deep understanding of application architectures and how they fit into an enterprise environment. We are particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate practical experience and a keen interest in leveraging Artificial Intelligence to drive innovative solutions. This role will be pivotal in driving our pre-sales consulting activities, including RFx, discovery, solution design, and estimation for various integration, and application development projects. This is a client-facing role, so you'll need to be an excellent communicator and good with people. The Principal Consultant works closely with General Managers, Practice Leads, other Architects, Technical Leads, and client stakeholders and teams, often identifying and incorporating AI-driven strategies. What you’ll do Pre-Sales Consulting: Lead and participate in client discovery workshops to understand business requirements, technical challenges and provide customers with compelling solutions, proactively identifying and proposing AI-enabled solutions where beneficial. Design and architect robust application solutions, aligning with business objectives and technical constraints. Develop compelling technical proposals and presentations to win new business. Provide accurate and timely estimates for project scopes and timelines. Solution Architecture: Define and document high level application architecture blueprints and approaches. Identify and mitigate potential risks and challenges. Take responsibility for ensuring projects deliver business outcomes form the solution you have proposed. Stay up-to-date with the latest application development trends and technologies, with a particular focus on advancements in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Generative AI. Contribute to the development of reusable solutions and consulting frameworks and methodologies. Apply latest AI approaches to solutions and to how solutions are delivered. What you’ll bring Must Have Strong Software Development background, and delivery within an enterprise environment. Practical experience of development across a range full stack of technologies. Ability to rapidly define solutions and options within a presale’s environment. Able to facilitate customer conversations, solicit high level requirements and outcomes and concisely determine and obtain key technical information. Practical solution architecture experience. Proven experience with defining, and planning delivery approaches and creation of estimates and risk pricing. Experience as a project/programme architect. Ability to identify mitigate and management delivery risks. Experienced in cloud and container-based architecture. Strong written and verbal communication. Able to guide and convince senior stakeholders. Strong knowledge of modern cloud-based application architectures, approaches and components. Demonstrable experience with AI/ML concepts, frameworks, and practical application in solution design, development, or strategic consulting. Nice To Have Knowledge of multiple programming languages and frameworks (e.g. Java, Spring, C# .NET, Python, React, Angular etc…). Integration experience. Knowledge of data and analytics approaches, modern and legacy. Experience of COTS/Platform implementations. Deep Azure or AWS knowledge, with specific experience in their AI/ML and Generative AI services (e.g., Azure OpenAI, AWS SageMaker, Bedrock). Experience with large language models (LLMs) and their integration into enterprise applications.