Application Architect

Salary: £50,000 - 90,000 per year

Requirements:

• Demonstrable, hands-on experience in application or software architecture and engineering.
• Strong knowledge of application design patterns and architectural styles such as microservices, event-driven, and layered.
• Experience with modern application frameworks and technologies.
• Experience with API design, microservices, and distributed systems architecture.
• Excellent collaboration and problem-solving skills with the ability to document and communicate complex solutions.
• Ability to lead and manage projects and teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages.
• Solid understanding of the end-to-end Software Development Lifecycle.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure, and their application services.
• Awareness of or hands-on experience with AI tools and technologies, and their application in software development and engineering productivity.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver the application architecture for strategic projects and programmes, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure, and aligned with our architectural direction.
• Provide hands-on architectural leadership within delivery teams, working alongside engineers to solve complex technical challenges and guide architectural decision making from concept through to delivery.
• Apply and contribute to the evolution of our application architecture standards, patterns, and engineering principles through practical delivery experience.
• Produce architectural designs, decision records, and technical documentation that clearly communicate solution intent and support long-term maintainability.
• Participate in architecture, design, and code reviews, providing constructive feedback and helping ensure consistency with established architectural principles.
• Collaborate with business, product, engineering, and fellow architects to understand requirements and translate them into pragmatic, high-quality technical solutions.
• Own the architectural direction of assigned initiatives, balancing business objectives, technical quality, operational considerations, and long-term maintainability.
• Identify technical risks, architectural debt, and opportunities for improvement, working with engineering teams to develop practical remediation plans.
• Design and evolve AI-assisted software engineering practices, tooling, and delivery pipelines that enable teams to build software safely, efficiently, and consistently.
• Use AI-assisted development tools to prototype, validate, and deliver architectural solutions, reference implementations, and production-quality software where appropriate.
• Research, evaluate, and recommend new technologies, frameworks, and architectural approaches that improve engineering effectiveness and deliver measurable business value.
• Champion the adoption of AI and emerging technologies to enhance application capabilities, engineering productivity, and software quality.
• Share knowledge, mentor engineers and technical leads, and contribute to the continuous improvement of our architecture and engineering communities.

Technologies:

• AI
• API
• Azure
• Cloud
• Support
• microservices
• Architect
• Embedded
• REST

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We are Fourth, formed in July 2019 through the merger of Fourth and HotSchedules to become a global leader in end-to-end restaurant and hospitality management technology solutions. We provide a complete SaaS suite covering scheduling, time and attendance, applicant tracking, training, inventory management and procurement, HR and benefits, and payroll services, supporting customers in 120,000 locations worldwide. Our team is unified across offices in the US, UK, Bulgaria, China, Australia, and the UAE. We offer benefits including 25 basic holidays with the option to grow to 30 with service, your birthday off, bank holidays, flexible working hours, hybrid working, wellness activities, gym subscription discounts, laptop and equipment, healthcare expense claim tools, certification support, annual meet ups, an enhanced parenting scheme, cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan, pension and life insurance options, and on-demand pay tools. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

last updated 35 week of 2026