Solution Architect - Cortex Reply

Solution Architect

About Cortex Reply:

Cortex Reply is a specialist consultancy within the Reply Group, focused on helping organisations adopt and scale AI-enabled, cloud-native solutions - particularly in highly regulated sectors such as financial services and central government. We combine deep technical expertise in cloud architecture and applied AI with a pragmatic understanding of our clients’ business challenges. Our work spans modern infrastructure, FinOps, and AI application development - helping clients turn complex requirements into secure, scalable, and high-impact platforms.  

Role Overview:

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and delivery of high-quality, cloud-native architectures across Cortex projects. 


• Translate business and non-functional requirements into secure, scalable, and maintainable designs. 


• Work across the solution stack, with a particular focus on event-driven and decoupled architectures. 


• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure architecture is translated into effective implementation. 


• Support business development activity, pre-sales architecture assessments, and RFP responses. 


• Contribute to the development of Cortex’s reusable patterns, reference architectures, and accelerators. 


• Stay current with technology trends, particularly in cloud services, automation, and AI enablement.

About the Candidate:

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field with a minimum 2:1 or higher.  


• Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing solutions on AWS. 


• Confident working across application, data, and infrastructure domains.  


• Ability to communicate architectural vision to both technical and non-technical stakeholders . 


• Experience with architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF) is a plus, but not essential.


• Able to work in agile delivery teams and support multiple modes of delivery (e.g. MVPs, PoCs, scaled implementation). 


• Comfortable operating in regulated environments and balancing innovation with compliance.