Solutions Engineer

Solutions Engineer

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Role Overview

The Solutions Engineer will report to the Senior Solutions Architect and work within the Digital Solutions team to support the delivery of Halma's Digital Growth Enabler. This role is focused on accelerating the adoption of scalable, secure, and innovative technologies across Halma's group of companies.

The Solutions Engineer will play a key role in designing and prototyping modern digital solutions, leveraging cloud services, AI, VR/AR, Edge AI, and other emerging technologies to support strategic initiatives and operational improvements. You will collaborate with teams across the Halma Group to deliver both strategic group-level initiatives and individual company projects, promote best practices in software development, and create reusable technical assets that enable rapid solution deployment.

If you have a strong foundation in modern software development and want to explore how cutting-edge technologies can drive real business value across diverse industries, this is the role for you.

Role Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Senior Solutions Architect and the wider Digital Solutions team to ensure solutions are based on modern technologies that are scalable, secure, and offer benefits to the business and therefore encourage adoption by the individual companies.
• Collaborate closely with development teams across the Halma Group to deliver strategic, group-level initiatives, including the rollout of in-house Generative AI solutions.
• Design and develop Proof of Concepts (POCs) and prototype solutions to support OpCo project initiatives, aligning with business requirements and digital strategies. Leverage technologies such as cloud services, AI services, VR/AR, Edge AI, and other emerging innovations to explore and validate new capabilities.
• Provide guidance and hands-on support to technical teams across group companies to foster the adoption of modern software development practices. Champion best practices in areas such as code quality, version control, CI/CD pipelines, testing strategies, and agile methodologies to enhance delivery efficiency, maintainability, and scalability of solutions.
• Develop scalable and reusable technical assets, including reference architectures, implementation playbooks, and solution templates, to accelerate delivery and promote consistency across group companies. Ensure assets are well-documented, easily adaptable, and aligned with enterprise standards and best practices.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to translate innovative ideas into tangible prototypes that support strategic decision-making and stakeholder engagement.

Role Prerequisites

Required

• 5+ years of experience in cloud-native development, ideally within the Azure ecosystem.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with C# and/or Python.
• Strong proficiency in cloud services (e.g., Azure App Services, AI Services, Functions, Logic Apps).
• Hands-on experience with RESTful APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
• Skilled in Git-based version control (GitHub, Azure DevOps) and implementing automated CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
• Familiarity with software testing practices including unit, integration, and automated testing to support solution reliability and quality assurance.
• Understanding of solution architecture principles, including scalability, security, maintainability, and performance optimisation.
• Ability to work across multiple teams and domains, translating business requirements into technical solutions.
• Familiarity with agile delivery practices, including sprint planning, backlog management and iterative development cycles.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage technical teams and senior decision-makers effectively.

Desirable

• Experience with Generative AI technologies and concepts including Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques and frameworks such as LangChain or Semantic Kernal.
• Experience in Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automation, Copilot Studio).
• Front-end development experience, including building responsive and accessible web applications using modern frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.js. Proficient in implementing UI components, managing state, and integrating APIs to deliver seamless user experiences across devices and platforms.
• Exposure to technologies such as edge computing and VR/AR would be advantageous.

Professional Attributes

• Passion for learning and leveraging new technologies with a focus on applying these technologies to solve real-world problems.
• Entrepreneurial, "can do approach" – Will be determined, creative and resilient, with a ferocious work ethic. Will be highly resourceful and pragmatic and find a way to get to the right answer.
• Strong interpersonal and consulting skills, with the ability to support technology-driven change across teams, facilitating communication, encouraging adoption of modern practices, and contributing to a culture of innovation within group companies.
• Ability to navigate complex organisations and effectively socialise new ideas, fostering adoption and knowledge sharing across Halma's companies.
• Well-versed in rapidly evolving technology landscapes, with the ability to identify relevant trends and translate them into practical, forward-thinking solutions that support business and operational goals.

Location

This role is based in London, with additional project-dependent travel requirements to our headquarters in Amersham, Buckinghamshire and to our operating companies in the UK and abroad.

We are currently operating a hybrid working environment, with a mixture of working in the office, travelling to other locations, and home working.