Principal Solution Architect

Principal Solution Architect 

Salary: competitive depending upon experience + benefits 

Where the job is based: hybrid (home-based & working with Kerv Digital office/customer site visits as required) UK HQ, Seven House, 18 High Street, Longbridge, B31 2UQ 

Who we are: 

Dive into a world where technology meets innovation. At Kerv Digital, we're not just another tech company. We’re the problem solvers, the magicians who transform complex challenges into seamless digital experiences. Utilising a powerful blend of Power Platform, DevOps, Data experiences, and Software Engineering, we create business solutions that truly resonate with our clients while driving extreme value! 

With our roots planted in Birmingham and branches spreading across the globe from London to Bangalore, we're a proud member of the Kerv Group - a dynamic £112m revenue technology consultancy leader with a dedicated team of over 700 professionals, partnering with 800+ sector leaders. 

People come first always.  We are incredibly proud of our unparalleled work culture. Not just words on paper, we wear our "Great Place to Work" certifications from the UK and India like badges of honour. Immerse yourself in an ocean of opportunities in an atmosphere that celebrates collaboration. Sharpen your prowess with a global multi-discipline team and be guided by the industry's most forward-thinking leaders. 

The Role / Who we are looking for:  

As a rapidly growing, award winning, Employer of Choice, we’re seeking to expand our capacity with a crucial member of our technical leadership team that can effectively help the overarching governance of multi-projects, ensuring we are doing the right things by our existing customers whilst working to bring onboard new customers and team members. 

We’re a deeply technical and outwardly facing organisation, so we anticipate that an effective Principal Architect will have prior experiences with consultancy, hands-on delivery, clearly demonstrable pre-sales success and strong relationships with our primary partner, Microsoft.  

They will have learned their craft by “doing” and being involved at all levels of an engagement and will not shy away from rolling their sleeves up and pitching in to support teammates should the need arise.  

Day to day this will include:  

• Designing and setting-up multi-year transformation and software development programmes 

• Pre-sales driven technical management of early customer engagements (including bid writing) 

• Providing commercial and technical assurance to solution architects (and other technical roles) on key projects 

• Underwriting technical/solution risks 

• Assuring there is a solid, scalable release management process with DevSecOps 

• Identifying and flagging any potential IP opportunities with the products team 

• Assuring solution compliance with KD architectural principles 

• Contributing to the technical leadership team, helping to shape the sustainable growth of the organisation. 

• Providing consultancy to end-client organisations on managing the transition to CI & Support as managed service; and licencing requirements and utilisation/optimisation 

• Supporting the Sector leadership team and Programme Management in defining new phases of work with existing customer and bridging the sales-to-delivery handover.  

• Providing platform expertise in, but not limited to: Microsoft Dynamics (Customer Service), Dataverse, Power Pages  

Our solution Principles         

We’re an architecturally and governance mature organisation that holds multiple independent accreditations. We operate using a set of core principles and believe our Principal Architects will closely identify with many of them. For reference they include: 

• Putting the customer first, speak their language, learn their needs and sometimes this involves challenging them. 

• Being honest and true with each other and our customers. 

• Not re-inventing the wheel, if someone has already done it, let’s look at it. 

• Secure by design and in depth. 

• Agile, Repeatable, Testable consumer-grade outcomes 

• Equality and Sustainability from the outset 

• Governance is good, bad documentation is bad business. 

• Always think ahead, Build Future. 

We are also looking for people that fit how we work, which is something like;  

• happiest working under their own direction, but fully supported when needed  

• an obvious attention to detail, we want you to obsess about the little things! 

• an escalation handler, able to achieve win-win outcomes by utilising the skills across the team 

• ability to work effectively with remote teams in India 

• ability to work flexibly to deliver on-time to tight timescales