Solution Architect - Cloud

Valcon is a north-western European consulting, technology and data company based in the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and even Croatia.

Valcon is private equity backed and in recent years has bought together some of the most exiting companies from these companies to form one of the brightest and most exciting consultancies around.

We're one of the fastest growing companies across Europe and have no plans to stop.

What do we do:

Our mission is to combine premium consulting with deep technology and data knowledge to add value to our clients.

The opportunity:

Valcon UK is seeking Power Platform Developers to join our growing Intelligent Process Automation capability group within our Technology Practice.

Overview of Technology Practice:

We're at the forefront of empowering the future of work, helping organisations of all sizes achieve their goals. For large enterprises, we eliminate manual labour through automation and intelligent tools, boosting knowledge worker productivity. Across the board, we build high-quality, performant and user-friendly solutions that leverage the latest technologies to deliver exceptional results for both scale-ups and large companies.

Our Technology Practice has 5 capabilities:

Software Engineering

Quality Management

Architectural Design & Strategy

• Translate complex business and functional requirements into scalable, secure, and cost-effective technical architectures.
• Align solution designs with enterprise business goals, value streams, and multi-year technology roadmaps.
• Choose appropriate architectural patterns (e.g., microservices, event-driven, serverless) to meet the needs of each solution.
• Design and integrate cloud-native and hybrid/multi-cloud architectures across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Define APIs, data flows, and middleware integrations to ensure seamless interoperability across systems.
• Optimise cloud performance, security, cost, and resilience.
• Work closely with stakeholders including developers, security, DevOps, product managers, and business leads to guide solution delivery.
• Ensure solutions follow architecture principles and are implemented with best practices.
• Drive adoption of Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD methodologies.

Governance, Security & Compliance

• Implement architectural governance, ensuring adherence to security standards and compliance regulations.
• Apply identity management, encryption, and access controls to safeguard systems and data.
• Act as a bridge between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.
• Present architecture decisions clearly to executives and cross-functional teams.
• Lead and mentor engineering teams, promoting best practices and technical excellence.

• Expertise in designing and implementing cloud-native solutions on AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
• Strong background in enterprise systems integration, data architecture, and application design
• Proven ability to define and deliver large-scale, high-performance, and secure technical architectures.
• Strong understanding of architectural frameworks, modelling (e.g., ArchiMate, C4), and roadmapping.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Track record of balancing strategic and technical priorities with business value in mind.