Senior Platform Architect — Hybrid, Scale a SaaS Stack

Spectrum IT Recruitment; Uxbridge; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Spectrum IT Recruitment is seeking a Principal Architect in the Uxbridge area to shape the future of a broad, complex technology platform across multiple systems, services and data capabilities. You will define architectural directions at the platform level and collaborate with engineering and product leaders to ensure a scalable, maintainable architecture.

The role is hybrid with 2 days onsite per week in the office, reporting to the CTO.

Qualifications

• Proven experience defining architecture across SaaS, product-led or platform-based environments.
• Experience working across complex, multi-system or distributed technology landscapes.
• Strong understanding of API design, integration architecture and service-oriented systems.
• Cloud architecture experience, ideally within Azure.
• A strong appreciation for security-by-design, resilience, scalability and operational excellence.
• Comfortable influencing technical direction without formal management responsibility.
• Experience leading platform consolidation or large-scale modernisation programmes would be highly advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Defining architectural principles, standards and target-state designs across the platform.
• Driving platform consolidation and reducing duplication across systems.
• Defining service boundaries, ownership models and integration patterns.
• Reviewing significant technical initiatives and providing architectural guidance across multiple engineering teams.
• Embedding security, resilience, scalability and observability into platform design from the outset.
• Identifying architectural risk, technical debt and platform constraints.
• Partnering with Engineering and Product leadership on strategic technical decisions.

Job description

Spectrum IT Recruitment is seeking a Principal Architect in the Uxbridge area to shape the future of a broad, complex technology platform across multiple systems, services and data capabilities. You will define architectural directions at the platform level and collaborate with engineering and product leaders to ensure a scalable, maintainable architecture.

The role is hybrid with 2 days onsite per week in the office, reporting to the CTO.