Principal Consultant (Enterprise Modernisation Architect)

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.

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.

Job responsibilities

• Provides technical guidance on Enterprise Systems Modernization.
• Supports delivery teams in solving complex client problems.
• Contributes to solution design, proposals, and pre-sales activities.
• Develops and refines service accelerators and reference architectures.
• Mentors engineers and architects within the service domain.
• Acts as a bridge between delivery teams and global service development.
• Measures success by technical quality, asset adoption, and talent uplift.
• Requires 10+ years of experience in software engineering or technical consulting.
• Requires 3+ years in Enterprise Systems Modernization advisory.
• Focuses on technical depth in modernization strategies and enterprise solution architecture.

Job qualifications

Technical Skills

• Experience supporting solution design and technical delivery in complex enterprise environments.
• Proven ability to build, extend, and support delivery tools, frameworks, and reusable assets.
• Deep technical expertise in modernization strategies, cloud architecture, and platform thinking.
• Strong engineering skills, architecture patterns knowledge, and toolchain understanding.
• Excellent communication to translate technical insights into actionable business decisions.
• Collaborative with mentorship abilities and solution-oriented with asset contribution commitment.

Professional Skills

• 10+ years in software engineering, platform delivery, or technical consulting roles.
• 3+ years in a subject matter expert or senior technical advisory role within Enterprise Systems Modernization.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Certifications in relevant platforms, tools, or frameworks for the Enterprise Systems Modernization domain.
• Experience contributing to internal accelerators, open-source projects, or client-aligned IP development.
• Familiarity with enterprise transformation programs and the consulting delivery lifecycle.

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