Principal Architect - Technical

The Principal Architect Technical, works with SCC's clients to develop their strategic goals, providing strategy, architecture and governance services using best practice approaches. Working closely with Sales colleagues to drive Strategic Consultancy opportunities and deliver engagements across all verticals.
The Principal Architect Technical, works within the SCC Consultancy Team with the purpose to ensure that we help our customers make the correct decisions relating to IT and business in the most efficient, risk-managed way. This involves development of our customers' architecture and IT services in partnership, to ensure that business strategy, objectives and benefits are met and that future business roadmaps can be achieved through effective IT services and business change., Engage directly with customers, often on speculative/pre-RFP requirements, to understand their business challenges and translate these into technology requirements.
Advise customers on technology choices and options.
Act as a single point of contact for consultative presales engagements, and coordinate Business Unit presales when required.
Develop customer proposals, statements of work, supporting cost models and define proof of concept engagements where appropriate.
Participate in bid responses as part of a bid team.
Deliver Consultancy engagements across the stack providing and producing recommendations - strategies, roadmaps, business cases, as-is / to-be assessments, and high-level architecture blueprints.
Work closely with delivery teams to ensure presales opportunities are handed over with clarity regarding the proposed solution, implementation approach, and customer engagement.
Develop SCC's Consultancy propositions and associated collateral.
Drive best practice, standards, and principles to help clients achieve transformation and maturity goals, and ensure skills and knowledge are updated with market trends, customer demands, and BU standard solutions.

Proven experience in a professional services architecture role with a proportion of time spent in presales/client consulting at a senior level.
Experience presenting technical solutions to technology and non-technology personnel, up to and including board level.
Breadth of knowledge across end-to-end business operating models and processes, with expertise in at least one industry sector.
Extensive knowledge of IT services and technology domains.
Strong understanding of technology best practice and governance; experience across programme & project management, delivery, architecture, and service management.
Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills and a proactive, engaging communication style.

SCC is Europe's largest privately-owned IT business, based in the new £7m HQ office in Birmingham, helping clients succeed through IT transformation and exceptional customer experiences. We combine unique ideas, people, and disciplines to innovate and simplify the complex.
Equal opportunities
We are an equal opportunities employer.
SCC is committed to providing equal opportunities and a proactive, inclusive approach to equality and diversity in employment. No applicant or employee will be treated less favourably on the grounds of a protected characteristic defined as sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, trade union membership or non-membership, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, and religion or belief.

Location: London (SCC operate hybrid working, which comprises of a mix of office and home working)
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary Package: 100-120k plus large company benefits, a broad flexible benefits scheme, and 2 paid-for volunteering days a year
Hours: 9.00 am - 5.30 pm Monday - Friday
Why SCC?

An inclusive workplace
Excellent package: solid basic and company benefits
Hybrid working & core hours in line with role requirements
Career development and life-long learning opportunities
Opportunity to join Europe's largest privately-owned IT Company