Hands-On Software Architect for WCS & Automation (Remote)

Computer Futures; East Midlands; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Computer Futures is seeking a hands-on WCS Software Architect to shape and evolve a mission-critical Warehouse Control System for automated logistics environments. You will set architectural direction, make design decisions, and stay close to code as the platform shifts from Python/Django to a modern .NET/Blazor ecosystem.

You will lead architecture across persistence, messaging, and deployment, ensuring performance, scalability, and security while integrating with PLCs, robotics, and external

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Software Architect or a senior engineer stepping into architecture.
• Strong expertise in C# / .NET and modern application development practices.
• Experience designing distributed systems, microservices, and high-performance applications.
• Solid background in system integration (APIs, messaging, event-driven architecture).
• Exposure to industrial systems, warehouse automation, WCS/WMS, or similar environments.
• Experience working with PLCs, robotics, or real-time control systems (desirable).
• Knowledge of CI/CD, containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes), and Linux-based environments.
• Strong problem-solving ability, with experience in performance tuning and scalability challenges.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the architecture across application, data, messaging, and deployment layers.
• Lead the design of complex features and subsystems, producing clear design artefacts and architecture documentation (including ADRs).
• Make key technical decisions across persistence, messaging, caching, and integration patterns.
• Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements including performance, scalability, availability, and security.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex system issues, including concurrency, bottlenecks, and integration failures.
• Own and define integration patterns between the WCS platform and external systems including PLCs, WMS, ERP, and robotics platforms.
• Design robust, scalable messaging and API-based interfaces.
• Ensure resilience through clear contract definitions, error handling, and recovery strategies.
• Support emulation and pre-deployment validation approaches to reduce risk.
• Act as a technical authority in client workshops, design reviews, FAT/SAT, and commissioning phases.
• Provide support during go-live activities, including system tuning, troubleshooting, and stabilisation.
• Collaborate with delivery and project teams to ensure integration success.
• Maintain a calm, solution-focused approach in high-pressure live environments.
• Contribute to architectural standards, coding guidelines, and design governance.
• Evaluate new tools and technologies, making evidence-based recommendations.
• Ensure alignment between business requirements, architecture decisions, and delivered solutions.
• Drive best practices across performance, observability, and system resilience.
• Work closely with product, development, test, and controls engineering teams.
• Provide visibility of architectural direction, risks, and readiness to stakeholders.
• Mentor and support engineers, raising overall technical capability within the team.
• Promote a culture of high-quality engineering and continuous improvement.

Skills

C# / .NET

Distributed systems

Microservices

APIs / Messaging

CI/CD

Docker / Kubernetes

Linux

Real-time control

Communication skills

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Job description

Computer Futures is seeking a hands-on WCS Software Architect to shape and evolve a mission-critical Warehouse Control System for automated logistics environments. You will set architectural direction, make design decisions, and stay close to code as the platform shifts from Python/Django to a modern .NET/Blazor ecosystem.

You will lead architecture across persistence, messaging, and deployment, ensuring performance, scalability, and security while integrating with PLCs, robotics, and external