Development Architect

Brambles / CHEP; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

CHEP, part of Brambles, seeks a Senior Software Architect to define and implement major parts of the software architecture for the Digital team. You’ll work on real-time IoT tracking systems across enterprise apps, collaborating with architects and engineering to build high-performance, scalable solutions embedded in business processes.

You’ll mentor developers, review code, and drive architectural decisions across platforms, including ERP integrations and cloud services.

Qualifications

• Substantial software development and design expertise with large and complex systems.
• Experience across the software stack including web UI, algorithms, databases, event-driven data processing, and modular data models.
• Hands-on experience with Go, Python, and JS/TS in real-world projects.

Responsibilities

• Define, design, and implement major parts of the software architecture for the Digital team.
• Focus on real-time IoT tracking systems across enterprise apps and data models.
• Design and develop scalable, high-performance software to meet enterprise requirements.
• Lead and participate in code reviews; mentor junior developers; ensure code quality and consistency.
• Develop integrations with ERP, SCade/SCM or cloud-based systems for data exchange.

Skills

Go

SQL-Postgres

Python

JavaScript

TypeScript

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 347 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ approximately 13,000 people and operate in 60 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world’s biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact.

What does that mean for you? You’ll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere, and small enough to get you there sooner. You’ll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability. You’ll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals. And you can maximize your work-life balance and flexibility through our Hybrid Work Model .

Job Description

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Define, design, and implement major parts of the software architecture for the Digital team in tight collaboration with other architects and engineering team members.
Primarily focusing on real-time IoT tracking systems, the work performed is on all levels of detail from the review of individual code elements to data model and component design to module integration scenarios, with the intent to build a high-performing application that is embedded in the fabric of business applications run by Brambles.
Key Responsibilities May Include:

Design and develop scalable, efficient, and high-performance software solutions that meet enterprise and user requirements. Design and implement robust, scalable architectures for enterprise applications, selecting the appropriate technologies to ensure high performance and maintainability. Develop clean, efficient, and well-documented code, adhering to best practices, coding standards, and performing regular code reviews to ensure consistency and quality across the team. Collaborate closely with designers, product managers, and QA testers to ensure a cohesive development process that meets both technical and business objectives. Develop integrations with various enterprise systems such as ERP, Supply Chain Planning systems, or other cloud-based applications to support seamless data exchange and functionality. Lead and participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to ensure consistency, quality, and scalability in all development projects. Mentor and support junior developers by providing technical guidance, coaching, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement within the development team.

This position is responsible for analysing, optimising and enhancing our real-time IoT framework, and building and maintaining support for current and future devices that Brambles uses to monitor and improve the supply chains of Brambles’ customers.

The success and viability of the real-time IoT framework requires a well-defined modular and architecture focusing on performance and semantic adaptability, especially considering the long lifetime of the system, the need for 99.9% uptime and the evolving nature of the requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement technical evolving designs for complex enterprise software.
• Provide technical and architectural guidance for specific software development while keeping the big picture across projects in mind.
• Establish technical priorities and strategies consistent with business goals and economic viability.
• Research options and propose software designs that solve immediate needs of the organization while including new and emerging technologies and anticipating future changes.
• Successfully delivery of detailed technical designs and artefacts across multiple integrated technologies and platforms, in accordance with stage gates, milestones, and business objectives: This includes conceptual work, reviews, trouble-shooting, and coding.

Challenges

Monitoring, maintaining and improving application performance levels.
Ensuring backwards compatibility and seamless upgrades to historic data with minimal downtime. Building understanding of complex algorithms and identifying ways to optimise and improve performance.

Experience Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in software development – or proven, exceptional software design contributions in previous positions
• Must have acquired deep understanding through practical real-world experience in different software technologies, ideally across the software stack including (Web) user interfaces, algorithm development, different types of database technologies, event-based systems, and the design of modular and extensible data models.
• Hands‑on expertise in multiple programming languages such as Go & SQL-Postgres (primarily), but also Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript are helpful.
• Must have worked as technical owner of major modules of applications, which were deployed to customers ,and has helped these customers go live
• Experience technically influencing a group of software developers to meet a common goal with successful outcome

Qualifications

Substantial software development and design expertise with large and complex systems, ideally in enterprise software, real-time applications and specifically around supply chain management or geographical information systems

Formal: At least a bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, science, engineering, statistics or mathematics

Beyond this baseline, software development experience and proven success is more important than formal education. However, large and complex systems also arise in university research, so a Master’s Degree or Ph.D. can be a plus.

Skills and Knowledge

• Excellent understanding of enterprise applications, cloud computing, algorithms on large data sets, event-driven data processing, and user interface technologies
• Proven technical leadership in multiple complex software projects
• Expertise in analysing and designing for performance of large-scale software systems
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present complex technical concepts into understandable terms to different teams in the organization including non-technical product managers
• Thorough understanding of technology trends in Enterprise software and beyond, and the ability to analyse the potential impact or benefit for the software projects of the Digital team
• Proven ability in coaching and mentoring others
• Knowledge of Supply Chain and Logistics applications is a benefit

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Remote Type

Hybrid Remote
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Skills to succeed in the role

Adaptability, Agile Methodology, Algorithmic Design, Application Frameworks, Cloud and Application Platforms, Computer Programming, Continuous Deployment and Integration, Debugging, Empathy, Error Analysis, Experimentation, Software Release Cycle, Source Control Management, Taking Ownership, Teamwork, Understand Customers, Unit Testing

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we are committed to developing a diverse workforce in which everyone is treated fairly, with respect, and has the opportunity to contribute to business success while realizing his or her potential. This means harnessing the unique skills and experience that each individual brings and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class.