Principal Solution Architect

Waracle are looking for a Principal Solution Architect for an exciting new role joining our world-class digital technology consultancy and home to a diverse, smart, curious and ambitious community of specialists in technology-driven transformation.

We work with ambitious clients to help them solve their biggest business and customer challenges. We help our clients to innovate and create intelligent digital products and services. We thrive on complex challenges and deliver business-critical IT transformation projects, moving seamlessly from strategy, design and delivery to operations.

This is a Hybrid role, offering the flexibility to balance your professional and personal life, with 2 days a week spent connecting with colleagues in our London office or on client site.

The Role

Are you a visionary technical leader who thrives on bringing clarity to complex engineering challenges?

In this influential role, you’ll act as the bridge where mobile engineering, product strategy, security, and delivery converge. Partnering with high-profile clients, you will shape resilient, secure, and user-friendly digital mobile experiences that millions rely on daily. You will work ahead of delivery teams to resolve architectural ambiguity, steer platform evolution, and lead with empathy, collaboration, and purpose.

Key aspects of the role include:

• Strategic Architecture & Vision: Shape and lead end-to-end mobile architecture across iOS, Android, APIs, and cloud services, aligning technical roadmaps with long-term business goals.
• Platform Governance & Innovation: Define organisation-wide security, resilience, and performance standards while leading proof-of-concepts for emerging technologies.
• Executive & Stakeholder Influence: Act as a trusted advisor to senior business leaders and client steering boards, effectively translating complex technical strategies into clear, impactful choices.
• Engineering & Practice Leadership: Drive practice-wide capability growth, build playbooks, and foster an inclusive, high-performing engineering culture by mentoring and empowering teams across multiple squads.
• Secure & Resilient Design: Champion "secure by design" principles, threat modeling, and robust platform controls to protect customers and maintain platform integrity at scale.

Research shows that underrepresented groups tend to only apply for roles that they believe they meet 100% of the criteria for. At Waracle, we want to buck that trend! We hire for passion, potential and mindset as much as credentials. If you think you'd be incredible in the role, then apply - even if you don't think you tick every box.

What you'll bring

• Architectural Mastery: Strong expertise designing end-to-end mobile platform solutions, mobile SDKs, shared libraries, and modularised codebases across iOS and Android.
• Strategic & Inclusive Leadership: Proven ability to influence executive-level stakeholders, resolve organisational challenges, and guide cross-functional teams with clarity and empathy.
• Security & Resilience Focus: Deep appreciation for secure design principles, threat modeling, authentication, tamper detection, and operational reliability in enterprise environments.
• Modern Engineering Mindset: Experience in agile delivery, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, observability, and continuous improvement practices.
• Collaborative Coaching: Passion for nurturing talent, designing upskilling initiatives, building communities of practice, and establishing reusable organisational accelerators.
• Domain Exposure (Desirable): Experience within regulated financial services, high-control enterprise environments, or evaluating vendor SDKs and cloud-native services.

What to expect from our hiring process

1. First Hello: An informal chat with your dedicated Talent Attraction Partner to talk about Waracle, what you want out of your next move, salary, benefits, and office hybrid working model.
2. Craft Showcase: A chance to demonstrate your real-world expertise. Depending on the role, this will be a focused take-home task (capped at 2–3 hours to respect your time) or a practical presentation.
3. Talking Impact: A collaborative deep dive into how you solve problems, work with others, and raise the bar, guided by our core values and competency framework.

Your Talent Attraction Partner will be in your corner through every step right up to your Welcome Ritual on day one!

Our Benefits

We believe in supporting our team, inside and outside of work. Here's a glimpse of what you can expect:

• Rest & Recharge: You'll receive 27 days of annual leave, plus 8 bank holidays, totaling 35 days of holiday to unwind and pursue your passions.
• Financial Future & Security: Plan for retirement with our company-matched 5% pension contribution. For added peace of mind, we also offer a Death in Service benefit, providing 2 x your annual salary for your loved ones.
• Health & Wellness: Our Medicash Health Cash Plans help cover everyday healthcare costs, complemented by an Employee Assistance Programme for confidential support, and Group Sickness Cover for peace of mind.
• Flexible Working: We champion hybrid working, providing a home office setup budget to ensure you're comfortable and productive wherever you are.
• Learning & Development: Invest in yourself with access to Udemy Business and a dedicated learning and development budget for continuous growth.
• Lifestyle Perks: Make the most of our Cycle to Work Scheme, and enjoy exclusive gym and retail discounts.
• Family First: Our enhanced parental leave policies include support for fertility journeys, recognising diverse family needs.
• Community & Connection: We foster a vibrant culture with regular fun meet-ups and lunch on us in the office once a month. You'll also have the opportunity to make a local impact through Spirit of Waracle, our initiative for getting involved in charitable causes locally, building strong team bonds and giving back.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.