Vetted on a call by a Wave consultant, not scraped. £90,000 to £115,000.
Contact centre and customer experience architecture, and it runs deep. They are the CCaaS enterprise architect inside a UK government department of more than 60,000 people, designing across Genesys Cloud, NICE CXOne, Amazon Connect, Cisco and Avaya with Salesforce and ServiceNow integrated around them. Before that, voice and telephony architecture at a water utility, a global telecoms services provider and a large online fashion retailer.
Looking forWants a permanent enterprise architect seat with a team under them and a line to the CTO, and a say in how the role gets shaped. They gave us no push factor at all, so this is a pull move.
How they came acrossPeople-first in how they frame a problem. They go to siloed platforms and process complexity before they go to technology, and years of pre-sales and engagement management show in how they handle a room.
Genesys Cloud, NICE CXOne, Amazon Connect, Cisco, Avaya · Salesforce, ServiceNow, SAP · AWS, Azure, REST APIs, Python
11 employers over more than three decades, from telecoms vendors and systems integrators into architecture across government, retail, telecoms and utilities. Average tenure 1 year 7 months, longest stint 4 years 9 months.
The architecture is contact centre and telephony first, so they are the wrong shape for bespoke product engineering. On the upside, 2 weeks notice is the shortest in this bracket.
Masters in microelectronics from a Russell Group university.
Architect and lead engineer at a public sector and health consultancy, running 1 to 3 teams of 7 to 11 people from greenfield through to production. C# and .NET with TypeScript and React on the front, event sourcing and saga patterns, micro-frontends and microservices on Azure. Cut cloud infrastructure cost by 40% while holding 99.9% uptime, and took a response time from 7 seconds to 200 milliseconds.
Looking forThey have hit the ceiling where every next step internally is fully hands-off management. Wants a leadership role that keeps them writing code and owning architecture, and they will not take the version that separates the two.
How they came acrossSelective, and they can afford to be. Says they get 4 or 5 approaches a day and turn nearly all of them down. Responded well to a role with a clear structure and told us so in plain terms.
C#, .NET Core, TypeScript, React · Azure Functions, Azure DevOps, CosmosDB, SQL Server · Docker, microservices, event sourcing, micro-frontends
6 employers over 12 years, from SAP and SharePoint development into full-stack engineering at a water utility and a UK university, then architecture at a B2B consultancy. Average tenure 1 year 11 months, longest stint 2 years 9 months.
They will walk from anything that takes the hands-on work away, and with 4 or 5 approaches a day they have plenty of alternatives. Notice period not confirmed.
PhD in computer software engineering.
Production AI on AWS, architected and built by the same pair of hands. They are the only AI architect on two live systems, one doing video analysis and one running document analysis workflows, owning requirement capture through to delivery with nobody above them. Bedrock, Lex and Nova Sonic for the conversational side, LangGraph, Strands and AgentCore for agentic workflows, retrieval over S3 Vectors, OpenSearch and FAISS, all deployed through CDK and Lambda.
Looking forNo push factor on file. They are exploring rather than escaping, and told us technical challenge and influence matter more than the number, although they leaned to the top of the range we discussed. Wants autonomy and production systems rather than slideware.
How they came acrossConsultative by background, with pre-sales and C-suite presenting on the CV, and they frame work in ROI and business case terms without losing the technical detail. Used to operating with no leader above them, which is either the attraction or the risk depending on your team.
Python, TypeScript, Node.js · AWS Bedrock, Lex, Lambda, DynamoDB · LangGraph, LangChain, RAG · CDK, Terraform
6 employers over 10 years, from consulting at Accenture and a global policy organisation into an integration consultancy, then AI architecture and now a venture of their own. Average tenure 2 years 2 months, longest stint 5 years.
They are self-employed and running their own venture, so there is a business to unwind as well as a notice period, and the notice is not confirmed. The recent stretch has been solo work rather than inside an engineering team.
Bachelors in computer science. AWS Certified Solutions Architect, professional.
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