Principal Consultant (Enterprise Modernisation Architect)
thoughtworks - London; Manchester - Global - Engineering & Technical
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<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>
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<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>
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<h3 id="technical-skills">Technical Skills</h3>
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<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>
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