Principal Software Architect

Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience defining architecture across SaaS, product-led, or platform-based environments
• Experience working across complex, multi-system, or distributed technology landscapes
• Strong understanding of API design, integration architecture, and service-oriented systems
• Cloud architecture experience, ideally within Azure
• Strong appreciation for security by design, resilience, scalability, and operational excellence
• Comfortable influencing technical direction without formal management responsibility
• Experience leading platform consolidation or large-scale modernisation programmes is highly advantageous

Responsibilities:

• Define architectural principles, standards, and target-state designs across our platform
• Drive platform consolidation and reduce duplication across systems
• Define service boundaries, ownership models, and integration patterns
• Review significant technical initiatives and provide architectural guidance across multiple engineering teams
• Embed security, resilience, scalability, and observability into platform design from the outset
• Identify architectural risk, technical debt, and platform constraints
• Partner with Engineering and Product leadership on strategic technical decisions
• Influence engineering teams through technical credibility rather than direct line management

Technologies:

• API
• Architect
• Azure
• Cloud
• CTO
• Security
• Support

More:

We are seeking a Principal Architect to shape the future of our broad, complex technology platform across multiple systems, services, integrations, and data capabilities. This is a hybrid role based in Uxbridge, Greater West London, with two days onsite per week and a salary of £100,000 to £120,000 plus benefits. You will report to our CTO and work closely with senior engineering and product leaders to create a more consistent, scalable, and maintainable architecture. This is a genuine platform-level architecture position focused on influencing the long-term technical direction of an evolving technology landscape.

last updated 32 week of 2026