Senior Architect

Netcompany; Ledston; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Private Medical Health care via Vitaly

Pension contribution

Life Assurance

Professional certifications supported

Retail discounts

Employee Resource Groups

Job summary

Netcompany in the UK is seeking a Software Architect to provide architecture expertise, design future services, and test proofs of concept. You will partner with business and technology stakeholders, translate requirements, and guide internal teams, third parties and external suppliers to deliver robust architectures.

You will shape solution architectures, participate in design reviews, and define observability, roadmaps, and architecture governance.

Qualifications

• Experience designing or implementing distributed system architectures.
• Experience as a technical architect or technical lead.
• Strong problem solving and decision making skills.
• Experience working within an agile methodology.
• Architecture qualifications such as TOGAF.
• Experience with Java and C#.
• Experience with relational and document databases.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders to run discovery, clarify requirements, and translate them into functional and non-functional specs.
• Enable delivery and governance, collaborate on roadmaps, define observability, and participate in design reviews.
• Shape and document solution architectures and target-state designs aligned to industry best practice.

Skills

Distributed systems

Technical lead

Agile methods

Problem solving

TOGAF

Java

C#

Education

TOGAF certification

Tools

Java

C#

Job description

As a Software Architect at Netcompany, you will provide technical and architecture expertise to support designing solutions users really need and want. You'll test the art of the possible by designing proofs of concept to test solutions for future services, working with internal groups, third parties and external suppliers.

What you'll do

• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to run discovery, clarify ambiguous requirements, and translate them into clear functional and non‑functional requirements
• Enable delivery and governance, collaborate with engineers to produce a detailed roadmap, define observability requirements (metrics, logs, traces), and participate in design reviews/architecture review boards
• Shape and document solution architectures and produce target-state and integration designs that are aligned to industry best practice

Qualifications

• Must have experience designing or implementing distributed system architectures
• Experience as a technical architect or technical lead
• Excellent problem solving and decision making skills
• Experience working within an agile methodology
• Architecture-related qualifications, such as TOGAF
• Experience and knowledge of software engineering technologies, such as Java/C#
• Experience with multiple database technologies, including relational databases and document databases

Benefits include

• Hybrid working model with some flexible working
• Private Medical Health care via Vitality
• Pension contribution, Life Assurance
• Professional certifications supported as part of learning and development.
• A range of retail discounts to enhance your lifestyle, encompassing restaurants, supermarkets, travel, leisure activities and health and well‑being services.
• Access to our Employee Resource Groups, our groups represent diverse backgrounds and provide a platform for colleagues to connect, learn, and support one another.

Company information

At Netcompany, we pride ourselves on our entrepreneurial spirit and our capacity for doing things differently. Our culture is built on fostering low bureaucracy, emphasizing high agility and promoting flexibility, enabling everyone to contribute their best.

Our journey began in the UK with the acquisition of Hunter Macdonald in 2017. As one of Northern Europe's most accomplished IT companies, we have expanded our headcount globally to 7400+ employees and have offices in UK, Denmark, Norway, Poland, Holland and Vietnam.

Netcompany is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier‑free recruitment process for anyone wishing to apply for a job with us. We operate a Disability Confident Interview Scheme which means that we offer guaranteed interviews to all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for a role. Applicants are asked to opt in, so please let us know if you wish your application to be considered under this scheme.