Developer Velocity - Developer Experience & Platform Engineering Solution Architect

Computacenter (UK) Ltd • Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Hatfield, London, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Reading, Salford

Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Hatfield, London, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Reading, Salford

218987-en_GB

Life on the team

Are you passionate about transforming how developers build, deploy and operate software?

Computacenter is looking for a Developer Experience & Platform Engineering Solution Architect to join our growing Cloud & Apps Practice, helping some of the UK's largest public and private sector organisations modernise software delivery through Platform Engineering, Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), DevOps and Developer Experience (DevEx) best practices.

As a senior member of our Cloud & Apps Practice, you'll work at the intersection of technology strategy, architecture and delivery, partnering with customers to design and implement modern engineering platforms that improve developer productivity, accelerate delivery and enhance operational resilience.

What you'll do

  • Lead customer engagements focused on Developer Experience, Platform Engineering and enterprise software delivery transformation
  • Design and architect Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native engineering platforms at scale
  • Facilitate workshops with engineering leaders, product teams and platform stakeholders to define target architectures, operating models and delivery roadmaps
  • Translate complex business and technical challenges into clear, implementable platform and DevEx solutions
  • Provide end-to-end technical leadership across pre-sales and delivery engagements, from discovery through to implementation assurance
  • Support sales teams with opportunity shaping, bid responses, solution design and commercial proposal development
  • Define reusable patterns, reference architectures and engineering standards across the Cloud & Apps Practice
  • Research and experiment with emerging tools, technologies and practices to evolve our Platform Engineering and DevEx offerings
  • Lead and mentor consultants and architects, ensuring high-quality delivery across multiple customer engagements
  • Ensure solution quality through design assurance, technical governance and risk identification across multi-technology environments

What you'll bring

  • Platform Engineering and Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs)
  • Developer Experience (DevEx) and DevOps transformation
  • Kubernetes (AKS, EKS, OpenShift)
  • CI/CD tooling including GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or Harness
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent)
  • Backstage or similar developer portal technologies
  • Observability, monitoring and developer feedback platforms
  • Secrets management and identity solutions such as HashiCorp Vault
  • Progressive delivery, release orchestration and modern deployment practices
  • You'll be comfortable engaging with senior stakeholders, leading technical teams and translating business challenges into practical, scalable engineering solutions

Access all areas

Join us and you’ll follow a structured programme that gives you access to all parts of Computacenter including our senior leaders.

Freedom & trust

You’ll have the support on hand when you need it and the autonomy when you don’t. Feel right at home in an environment where you’re able to work with freedom and flexibility, and trusted to manage your own work.

Showing appreciation & having fun

Great performance is recognised, so too is the willingness to help others. Our Bravo! awards and Long Service Awards Scheme are just a taste of how we say thank you for a job well done. And when it comes to recognising success, we love to celebrate. Our company and team events are legendary!

Working with the best

Over 1,300 technology consultants, 900 project managers and 3,200 systems engineers come together to form our highly regarded professional services community. You’ll find they’re a close-knit team, where mutual trust and collaboration is the norm.

Sharing knowledge

We organise several events and initiatives, such our UK Professional Services Conference and ‘Lunch and Learn’ sessions, that bring together the brightest minds in the business. Here you can learn new things, network, and celebrate success together.

Exciting digital technology

Challenging and rewarding projects: The range of technologies and industries that we are so diverse, that no two projects are alike. The result? A role for you that’s varied and provides the opportunity to expand your expertise and develop your career further.

Health & wellbeing

Our people are our greatest asset and we’re passionate about supporting you in feeling good and staying healthy. We offer a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme, Wellbeing Champions, Mental Health First Aiders, Access to Work scheme, and more.

Personal development

We like to invest in our people. We offer training and technology certifications, mentoring and coaching, specialist or management careers, access to our on-the-go immersive learning platform, Percipio, and much more.

Inclusive workplace

People work best when they bring their whole selves to work, that’s why we see and value you as the amazing individual you truly are. We take a genuine interest you that extends beyond skills, knowledge, and experience. Our Employee Impact Groups champion best practice, celebrate diversity and promote inclusion within our industry.

Pension and financial security

Thinking ahead, planning for life’s uncertainties, or simply saving for a rainy day? We offer auto-enrolment onto our pension scheme, a Sharesave/SAYE scheme and more besides.

Flexible benefits

Do you fancy a new bicycle? Want to work-out at the gym? Or do you prefer to get-away from it all? With our voluntary flexible benefits platform, ‘My Benefits’, you can. Achieve savings with our Cycle2Work, GymFlex, Travel Insurance benefits and loads more.

We’re a place where you can belong

We’re a place where you can belong

At Computacenter, people matter. We value what makes you, you, and believe everyone should feel comfortable being themselves at work. Here, you’ll be recognised for your contribution, supported to grow, and welcomed into a vibrant, collaborative culture where you can experience a genuine sense of belonging - because when you thrive, we thrive.

You’ll see this reflected in our recruitment process too. We aim to provide fair access to opportunities and an inclusive, barrier‑free experience. All that matters to us is that you share our vision and values and bring the skills and experience we need.

As a Disability Confident Committed employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme. If you opt in and meet the minimum criteria for the role, you’ll be guaranteed an interview, and we’re happy to support any reasonable adjustments. Please let us know when you apply.

Winning Together

At Computacenter, we have been writing success stories for more than 40 years! Today, we’re driving digital transformation with over 20,000 employees worldwide. We develop IT strategies, implement new technologies and manage complex infrastructures.

As a proud, independent partner to some of the world’s leading technology providers, our portfolio covers workplace, applications & data, cloud & data center, security, and networking. What’s the secret of our success? Quite simply, it’s our people.

The people who bring their unique skills and perspectives to a diverse and inclusive environment that enables them to reach their full potential.

Winning Together

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