Senior Cloud & AI Solutions Architect

Virgin Active; England; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 25 days

Pension contributions 3%

Complimentary membership

Dental & Health Insurance

Life Assurance 4x salary

VA discounts

Virgin Family perks

Discounts at KAUAI

Salary Finance access

Counselling services

Corporate letting services

ePoints discounts

Academy course discounts

Job summary

Virgin Active is evolving into Social Wellness Clubs and seeks a Senior Solution Architect to join the Digital & Technology Transformation Team. You will own architecture across our digital ecosystem, setting standards for secure, scalable cloud-native solutions across mobile, web, data platforms and third-party services.

This hands-on role collaborates with Product, Engineering, Data, Marketing and IT to steer technical direction, manage risks and deliver production-ready systems across

Qualifications

• Significant software engineering experience in senior technical roles.
• Experience leading architecture across mobile, web, backend, integration and data platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure, cloud-native architecture, distributed systems and microservices.
• Hands-on with C#, .NET, CI/CD and modern DevOps practices.
• Experience introducing AI or ML capabilities into digital products.

Responsibilities

• Own the target architecture and technical roadmap across Virgin Active’s digital ecosystem.
• Define architectural standards for applications, APIs, integrations, data, security and cloud infrastructure.
• Design secure, scalable solutions across mobile, web, backend services, data platforms and third-party systems.
• Lead the design of complex features spanning multiple products and technical domains.
• Create reference implementations and work with engineers to solve complex challenges.
• Guide the transition towards a cloud-native, API-led and event-driven architecture.
• Work with AI teams to responsibly introduce AI into member experiences.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business priorities.
• Lead architecture reviews and communicate decisions, risks and trade-offs clearly.
• Provide technical guidance to engineers and strengthen architectural capability.

Skills

Microsoft Azure

C#

.NET

CI/CD

DevOps

API-led

Event-driven

Security

Data architecture

Stakeholder management

Communication

Tools

Azure Functions

API Management

Service Bus

Event Grid

Logic Apps

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure Kubernetes Service

Job description

Virgin Active is evolving into Social Wellness Clubs and seeks a Senior Solution Architect to join the Digital & Technology Transformation Team. You will own architecture across our digital ecosystem, setting standards for secure, scalable cloud-native solutions across mobile, web, data platforms and third-party services.

This hands-on role collaborates with Product, Engineering, Data, Marketing and IT to steer technical direction, manage risks and deliver production-ready systems across