R&D Tech Architect & Solutions Designer (Hybrid)

Ncounter; England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Ncounter is seeking a Technology Consultant in Gloucestershire with a strong software engineering background and hands-on development experience. The role blends architecture, rapid prototyping and technical consultancy to shape new client opportunities.

You will design solutions from architecture to implementation, contribute to bids, and stay hands-on with PoCs and MVPs while exploring AI, cloud-native tech and distributed systems. Hybrid work in Gloucestershire is expected.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with hands-on development.
• Strong Python skills and/or experience with Java, JavaScript, C/C++ or Rust.
• Broad technical knowledge to choose technologies by problem, not stack.
• Experience designing solutions from high-level architecture to detailed implementation.
• Exposure to technical consultancy, pre-sales, bids or customer-facing design.
• Linux and cloud experience across AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Curiosity about emerging technologies and ability to communicate complex ideas clearly.

Responsibilities

• Lead R&D, solution design and technical development across client opportunities.
• Provide technical thinking behind bids and present ideas to technical stakeholders.
• Develop proofs of concept and MVPs; explore emerging tech and shape research capabilities.
• Work on projects spanning distributed systems, AI, observability, cloud-native tech, messaging, NLP and image processing.

Skills

Software engineering background

Python

Java/JavaScript/C/C++/Rust

Architecture design

Pre-sales/solution design

Linux

Cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Ncounter is seeking a Technology Consultant in Gloucestershire with a strong software engineering background and hands-on development experience. The role blends architecture, rapid prototyping and technical consultancy to shape new client opportunities.

You will design solutions from architecture to implementation, contribute to bids, and stay hands-on with PoCs and MVPs while exploring AI, cloud-native tech and distributed systems. Hybrid work in Gloucestershire is expected.