NICE Systems
Senior Software Architect
Job Description
Salary: £40,000 - 60,000 per year
Requirements:- Solid experience developing applications in C# using Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code.
- Proven ability to break down complex market requirements into secure, scalable, and resilient system designs.
- Experience with multi-tenant cloud solutions and collaborative multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience creating maintainable code and using source control solutions such as DevOps, Git, or similar.
- Experience with unit testing, code reviews, and other product quality disciplines.
- Solid understanding of network security, authentication, and authorization principles.
- Experience working with databases using Entity Framework or similar.
- Good knowledge of SOLID principles.
- Experience creating RESTful APIs and ensuring API extensibility.
- Recent practical experience using AI tools such as Copilot, Claude Code, Codex, or equivalent in daily work, with the ability to discuss what worked, what did not, and why.
- Accountability for the architecture you own, regardless of the tools used to produce it.
- Comfort with probabilistic systems and sound judgment about when to use AI in a high-trust domain.
- Ability to learn a new AI tool or technique quickly.
- Preferred: Knowledge of security best practices, including the OWASP Top Ten; Azure SQL Server; DevOps, pipelines, TeamCity, or GitHub; and Windows services.
- Preferred: Experience using AI tools in an architect role, such as for design review, ADR drafting, threat modeling, or contract design.
- Preferred: Familiarity with AI-native software patterns, such as agentic workflows, evaluation harnesses, prompt-and-response evaluation, and evidence packets.
- Own the architecture and carry out design, AI-led implementation, and validation in cloud-based, multithreaded, multi-server environments.
- Work within our AI-led delivery method, setting intent, orchestrating implementation, and validating AI-drafted code, tests, and decisions.
- Lead architectural decisions using a collaborative, team-based approach.
- Ensure architecture addresses security, scalability, compatibility, maintainability, and responsible, evidenced use of AI at build time and run time.
- Test your work, fix defects, and help resolve customer support cases.
- Ensure the team follows architectural direction and standards.
- Mentor and coach team members in architecture practices, AI-led delivery techniques, and validating AI outputs.
- Liaise with Product Management during planning sessions.
- AI
- API
- Architect
- Azure
- C#
- Claude Code
- Cloud
- Copilot
- DevOps
- Git
- GitHub
- Support
- Network
- OWASP
- SQL
- Security
- Teamcity
- Visual Studio
- Windows
More:
We are NiCE, an AI, cloud, and digital software company whose products are used by more than 25,000 businesses, including 85 of the Fortune 100. Our software supports customer experiences, financial-crime prevention, and public safety; we have more than 8,500 employees across 30+ countries. We are hiring a Lead Software Architect as an individual contributor, reporting to a Manager, for our AI-led transformation of a digital evidence platform. We value practical daily use of AI tools, curiosity, sound judgment, and accountability; AI expertise or credentials are not required. The final interview stage includes a working session with our AI tools to explore how you set intent, validate outputs, and make decisions. This is a hybrid role. We are an equal opportunity employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics.
last updated 39 week of 2026
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£75,000
UK median
This salary is 33% below the UK median for Senior roles (£75,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks