Cloud-Native Platform Architect & Engineering Leader

Praxy; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

IRIS Software Group in the United Kingdom seeks a Principal Engineer to shape architecture and technical direction across products. You will lead from the front, delivering scalable, secure software and guiding teams in modern engineering practices.

You will mentor engineers, champion CI/CD and DevOps, and collaborate with Product, Architecture, and DevOps to drive customer outcomes. This role is highly hands-on and strategic.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in software engineering, including leadership of complex technical initiatives and distributed teams.
• Strong expertise within the Microsoft technology ecosystem, including C#, .NET, SQL Server, Azure, and related technologies.
• Experience designing and delivering scalable, cloud-native applications and services.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership across software development teams.
• Lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable, secure, and high-performing software solutions.
• Drive architectural decisions and ensure alignment with engineering best practices and business objectives.
• Contribute to estimation, planning, and technical decision-making for new initiatives and product enhancements.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to support successful product releases and operational excellence.
• Ensure teams understand priorities, milestones, and delivery commitments.
• Remain actively involved in software development, code reviews, troubleshooting, and resolving complex technical issues.
• Champion modern engineering practices, including CI/CD, DevOps, automation, testing, and observability.
• Promote high standards of code quality, maintainability, security, and performance.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across development processes, tooling, and ways of working.
• Support the evolution and modernization of existing platforms and systems.
• Coach, mentor, and develop engineers at all levels, creating a culture of learning and technical excellence.

Skills

C# & .NET

Cloud-native design

Microservices architecture

Distributed systems

Code quality & testing

Multi-language experience

Tools

Azure

SQL Server

CI/CD

Job description

IRIS Software Group in the United Kingdom seeks a Principal Engineer to shape architecture and technical direction across products. You will lead from the front, delivering scalable, secure software and guiding teams in modern engineering practices.

You will mentor engineers, champion CI/CD and DevOps, and collaborate with Product, Architecture, and DevOps to drive customer outcomes. This role is highly hands-on and strategic.