Senior Solutions Architect

Our client, an international oil & gas operator is currently seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to join their Aberdeen team. The role will be on an ongoing contract and offers a hybrid working arrangement.

ROLE

• Interfaces with all internal departments, IT Services, Digital Platform teams, and external vendors.
• Responsible for the full cloud software lifecycle: requirements, design, development oversight, implementation, operations, and continuous improvement.
• Ensures solutions meet SLA expectations and adhere to budgetary constraints while enabling scalability and innovation

RESPONSIBILITIES

Cloud Architecture & Software Engineering

• Design and maintain cloudnative software architectures, ensuring alignment with Group standards and cloud component catalogues.
• Provide end to end software architectural guidance, covering client side, server side, API, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop architecture artefacts including:
• Cloud architecture designs
• Software/application architecture designs
• Technical backlogs

Full Stack Solution Design & Development

• Participate in the design and creation of scalable cloudnative software.
• Guide teams writing clean, functional code across frontend and backend.
• Ensure best practices for application responsiveness, performance, debugging, observability, and secure coding.
• Oversee the development of user facing interfaces using modern JavaScript frameworks and reusable component libraries.
• Architect and support the creation of effective APIs, databases, and application integration patterns.
• Recommend & guide the use of AI and AI tooling for generating code respecting development & security standards

Cloud Security, Cost Optimisation & Standards

• Advise and act on cloud security best practices, ensuring secure authentication/authorization patterns (e.g., JWT based mechanisms).
• Participate in monthly security reviews, software component reviews, and cost optimisation cycles.
• Ensure compliance with Security Rules, Company Rules, cloud governance and architectural guidelines.

Collaboration & Coaching

• Support developers in product squads with solution design, troubleshooting and modern development workflows.
• Provide expert advice to the business and mentor colleagues to uplift cloud, architecture, and software engineering competencies.
• Promote the use of modern development methodologies and DevOps practices.

Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities to improve software engineering processes, architectural patterns, cost efficiency, and system quality.
• Participate actively in best practice sharing across cloud and development communities.

REQUIREMENTS:

Required

• Strong numerate degree (Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics) with 7–10+ years in software or cloud engineering.
• Extensive experience designing and delivering cloudnative applications in Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Strong proficiency with modern JavaScript frameworks (React.js) and full stack development languages (JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, Java, Python).
• Experience with frontend technologies (HTML, CSS, XML) and backend frameworks (Node.js, .NET, etc.).
• Experience with container technologies: Kubernetes, OpenShift, ECS/Fargate.
• Expertise with DevOps tooling (GitHub, Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines).
• Competence in developing secure APIs, working with RESTful architectures and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases (MySQL, MongoDB) and cloudnative storage solutions.
• Excellent communication, teamwork, and architectural documentation skills.

Preferred:

• Experience in the Upstream oil & gas digital domain.
• Knowledge of multitier, high availability cloud solutions.
• Agile development experience.