Global Software Architect – AI, Cloud & Scale

MBR Partners; Greater London; On-site; GBP 66,000 - 106,000; Full time

Job summary

MBR Partners in London is seeking a senior leader to own and evolve the technical architecture for a global, high-throughput telecommunications platform. You will guide distributed engineering teams, translate business goals into scalable system designs, and balance innovation with reliability.

The role requires deep DevOps, cloud, and AI-driven architecture experience, plus strong stakeholder management with product and executive teams. A global, strategic technology agenda will be your focus.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software architecture or senior engineering leadership roles.
• Proven experience defining technical strategy for complex, distributed R&D teams.
• Strong track record of aligning technical design with business outcomes and budget goals.
• Experience designing complex, high-throughput platform-based or telecommunications solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to design globally distributed, highly available systems.
• Deep experience with Agile software development and continuous integration environments.
• Multi-year experience in the telecommunications industry, including standard data processing and data-to-settlement workflows.
• Strong analytical mindset with ownership of technology trade-offs and risk management.
• Ability to bridge high-level business strategy and low-level code execution seamlessly.
• Expert understanding of the software development lifecycle, DevOps, and cloud infrastructure.
• Excellent technical leadership across multidisciplinary engineering and product teams.
• Strong stakeholder management from technical developers to business executives.
• Data-driven decision-making, benchmarking capabilities, and pattern evaluation discipline.
• Experience designing AI and automation-led architecture is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end technical architecture, system design, and technology stack selection.
• Lead and mentor engineering teams globally on architectural patterns and standards.
• Inform investment trade-offs by evaluating technical debt and infrastructure costs.
• Ensure the technical viability and high-quality delivery of product releases.
• Define and implement engineering frameworks, design patterns, and development standards.
• Translate telecommunications market trends such as AI, cloud-native, and automation into scalable systems.
• Work closely with Product and R&D leaders to deliver clear technical value propositions.
• Engage key customers to understand technical integration constraints and operational pain points.
• Establish strong technical governance, code quality baselines, and design review processes.
• Optimise platform design to maximise resource utilization, performance, and speed to market.
• Define and drive architectural strategy and technical roadmaps across the portfolio.
• Guide global engineering teams to deliver against architectural blueprints.
• Balance innovation with system reliability and platform scalability.
• Engage with product managers, developers, and internal stakeholders to shape solutions.
• Align system architecture with business priorities and commercial constraints.
• Champion AI, automation, and next-gen telecommunications platform evolution.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud & DevOps

AI & automation architecture

Stakeholder management

Technical strategy

Product collaboration

Data-driven decisions

Telecommunications domain

CI/CD & Agile

Job description

MBR Partners in London is seeking a senior leader to own and evolve the technical architecture for a global, high-throughput telecommunications platform. You will guide distributed engineering teams, translate business goals into scalable system designs, and balance innovation with reliability.

The role requires deep DevOps, cloud, and AI-driven architecture experience, plus strong stakeholder management with product and executive teams. A global, strategic technology agenda will be your focus.