Principal Software Architect

Salary: £100,000 - 120,000 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 hiring for a Principal Architect to help shape the future of a broad, complex technology platform spanning multiple systems, services, integrations and data capabilities. This is a genuine platform-level architecture role focused on guiding the evolution of our wider technology landscape, with a strong emphasis on consistency, scalability and maintainability. The role is based in Uxbridge, Greater West London, with hybrid working and two days onsite per week. We offer a salary of £100,000 to £120,000 plus benefits. You will work closely with senior engineering and product leaders and report to the CTO, with the opportunity to make a lasting impact across the organisation.

last updated 31 week of 2026