Solutions Architect

🕒 March 20

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Code First Girls

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2019

📚 Education

🤝 B2B

🎯 Recruiter

💰 $5.2M Series A - Code First Girls on 2022-09

Education • B2B • Recruitment

Code First Girls is a nonprofit education and talent organisation that provides free coding and tech training to women and underrepresented genders, and partners with employers to create pathways into technology roles. It runs community-driven courses (from tasters to intensive 16-week CFGdegree and +Masters), mid-level accelerator and employer-sponsored training to prepare job-ready candidates in software engineering, data, AI/ML, cybersecurity, DevOps/cloud, product and related fields. With a global community of 300k+ learners, 130+ employer partners, and high job placement and retention rates, Code First Girls focuses on closing the gender and digital skills gaps by combining education, recruitment pipelines, and employer-focused workforce transformation.

📋 Description

• Step into a role as a Solutions Architect with one of our client partners through the Mid-Level Accelerator programme. • Collaboratively define and maintain the long-term architectural roadmap for digital systems • Maintain a holistic view of the service ecosystem to identify technical dependencies, risks, and opportunities • Represent architecture in governance forums, supporting prioritisation, risk discussions, and assurance reviews • Contribute to the development of architectural patterns, principles, and standards to ensure directorate-wide consistency • Create high-quality architectural artefacts, including C4/UML diagrams, data flows, and migration pathways • Provide expert oversight to ensure services are robust, secure, scalable, and maintainable • Evaluate technology options, assessing impacts across infrastructure, data, security, and operations • Mentor and coach tech leads and senior engineers to support capability development • Translate complex architectural concepts into clear terms for senior stakeholders • Facilitate alignment between technical and business leaders to balance strategic direction with delivery needs • Champion inclusive working practices and support diversity within engineering roles.

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience as a technical or solution architect in complex enterprise environments • Strong background in modern application architectures, including microservices, APIs, and distributed systems • Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (ideally AWS), including Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and security control • Deep understanding of threat modelling, authentication patterns, and observability • Familiarity with languages such as Ruby, Python, or Java, alongside CI/CD, TDD, and containerisation • Experience with enterprise ERP platforms (e.g., Oracle E-Business Suite) • Knowledge of UK government digital service standards and assurance processes • Familiarity with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) or event-driven architectural approaches • Prior consultancy experience working across multiple product teams or client environments.

🏖️ Benefits

• Benefits - vary per client, but are competitive.