Cloud-Native Solutions Architect – Azure & API Focus

Virgin Active Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Pension contributions 3%

Virgin Active membership

Dental Insurance

Life Assurance 4x

Discounts across Virgin Active

Virgin Family discounts

Food & drink discount

Salary Finance access

Counselling sessions

Corporate letting services

ePoints discounts

Academy discounts

Job summary

Virgin Active Limited is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to lead the architecture across its digital ecosystem, shaping the technical roadmap and ensuring secure, scalable cloud-native solutions. You will drive API-led and event-driven designs across mobile, web, backend services and data platforms.

You’ll guide complex features, collaborate with Product, Engineering and Data teams, and oversee Azure architecture to balance delivery with reliability and cost.

Qualifications

• Senior architect with cloud-native experience across mobile, web and data platforms.
• Experience leading architecture across multiple domains including integrations and data.
• Strong knowledge of Azure, microservices and security considerations.
• Experience designing API-led and event-driven solutions.
• Experience integrating third-party platforms at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own target architecture and technical roadmap for Virgin Active’s digital ecosystem.
• Define standards for applications, APIs, integrations, data, security and cloud infra.

Skills

Azure cloud

API-led architecture

C#/.NET

DevOps CI/CD

AI in digital products

Tools

Azure Functions

Service Bus

Event Grid

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Virgin Active Limited is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to lead the architecture across its digital ecosystem, shaping the technical roadmap and ensuring secure, scalable cloud-native solutions. You will drive API-led and event-driven designs across mobile, web, backend services and data platforms.

You’ll guide complex features, collaborate with Product, Engineering and Data teams, and oversee Azure architecture to balance delivery with reliability and cost.