Qlik Sense Solution Architect

Location: London, UK

Working Model: Hybrid (3 days per week in office)
Contract Type: Contract
Duration: 12 Months
Rate: Competitve Market Rates

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Qlik Sense Solution Architect to support the delivery of business-critical Management Information (MI) and Business Intelligence (BI) solutions within a global banking environment.

The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and delivering scalable Qlik-based reporting solutions, working closely with business stakeholders, architects, project managers, and distributed development teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and deploy enterprise-scale Qlik Sense dashboards and reporting solutions.
• Lead the architecture and delivery of dashboards handling large-scale datasets.
• Design robust and scalable data models in collaboration with data platform teams.
• Ensure solutions are maintainable, fully tested, and delivered within agreed timelines and budgets.
• Support and enhance existing dashboards and reporting applications.
• Provide technical analysis for new requirements and review work requests for completeness and clarity.
• Recommend and evaluate new reporting technologies and methodologies where appropriate.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects to ensure alignment with organizational architecture standards.
• Support project managers in planning and delivery activities.
• Drive productivity, quality, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Work closely with offshore development, testing, and analysis teams to ensure high-quality deliverables.
• Champion best practices in development, testing, and solution design.
• Ensure compliance with internal controls, regulatory requirements, operational risk standards, and ethical guidelines.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to development teams.

Required Skills and ExperienceEssential

• Proven experience designing and delivering Qlik Sense dashboards processing hundreds of millions of records.
• Strong experience designing Qlik reporting solutions incorporating:
  • Custom mashup front ends
  • enigma.js
  • Microservices-based architectures
• Advanced Qlik Sense expertise with the ability to guide and support development teams.
• Enterprise administration experience with Qlik Sense, including QMC.
• Experience implementing and managing Session Apps in Qlik Sense.
• Strong data modelling and data warehousing expertise, including Kimball methodology.
• Experience optimizing reporting solutions for usability, performance, and scalability.
• Proficiency with Git and GitHub.
• Experience working with complex data structures and large-scale datasets.
• Ability to operate effectively in high-pressure environments supporting senior business stakeholders.
• End-to-end reporting life cycle experience, including requirements gathering, prioritization, development, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Strong commitment to Test-Driven Development (TDD) and software quality practices.
• Experience with financial reporting and standardized report design principles.
• Experience leveraging AI tools to improve development productivity and efficiency.
• Experience collaborating with offshore development and testing teams.
• Ability to manage requirements across multiple business groups simultaneously.
• Relevant Qlik certifications.
• Experience developing Qlik application mashups.
• Experience with Qlik Cloud and NPrinting.
• Experience with Jenkins and Ansible.
• Experience with Jira and Confluence.
• Experience with Node.js.
• Previous experience within Global Banking or Investment Banking environments.

Desirable

• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Ability to communicate technical designs to both Qlik and web development teams.
• Strong documentation and solution design capabilities.
• Experience leading geographically distributed teams.
• Ability to balance future-state architecture planning with ongoing delivery requirements.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Self-motivated, proactive, and able to work independently.
• Agile team leadership experience.
• Innovative mindset with strong problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and take ownership through to resolution.