Senior Software Architect

External; North East; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail technology company in the UK is seeking a highly experienced Senior Software Architect. In this role, you'll lead the architecture of cloud-native solutions, mentor teams, and ensure high availability and scalability of software platforms. The ideal candidate should have over 10 years of experience in software development with a focus on cloud solutions and microservices. This position offers competitive salary and generous benefits, including health coverage and a 401(k) plan.

Benefits

Group health coverage (medical, dental & vision)

401(k) plan (with company match)

Generous paid holiday schedule

Qualifications

• 10 years' experience in software development and architecture with a focus on cloud-based solutions.
• Expertise in modern patterns, API design, leveraging AI.
• Proven experience leading and mentoring development teams in an Agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture for System Software platform/services and drive solution design.
• Lead cross-functional reviews with hardware and software teams.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentorship.

Skills

APIs

Cloud Infrastructure

DevOps

Java

Solution Architecture

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field

Tools

.NET

AWS

Azure

Job description

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is seeking a highly experiencedSenior Software Architect to own and evolve the architecture of our system software platform and cloud this role you will provide technical vision and hands-on leadership across distributed large-scale systemsdriving solution design non-functional excellence (security scalability reliability) and modern engineering practices. You will collaborate closely with hardware system software application teams product and global stakeholders to deliver robust API-first cloud-native solutions. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in microservices event-driven architectures DevSecOps and AI-assisted development along with a proven ability to mentor teams influence strategy and ensure end-to-end delivery of best-in-class highly available and cost-efficient software platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture for System Software platform / services drive solution design and guardrails across teams.
• Lead crossfunctional reviews with HW System Software SW Professional Services and Support.
• Define nonfunctional requirements (security scalability reliability) and reference architectures; ensure CI / CD & DevSecOps alignment.
• Provide handson technical leadership mentorship and design governance.
• Architect design and develop large-scale distributed software services and solutions in collaboration with teammates.
• Translate discovery outcomes into backlog items ensuring design intent architecture standards and non-functional requirements are preserved throughout implementation.
• Contribute to platform and portfolio strategyidentifying reusable assets API-first designs and gaps requiring investment.
• Instrument and leverage AI / agentic workflowsto accelerate design prototyping code generation test-case creation specification drafting and automated validation across the software lifecycle.
• AI-assisted development oversight ethical compliance and integration of generative AI tools.
• Communicate with our other geographies.
• Generate internal white papers on standard design and approaches.
• Collaborate with the development team and product to design software solutions.
• Design solutions with a strong focus on high availability and scalability robustness and usability.
• Build software prototypes and conduct experiments to evaluate alternative architectures.
• Lead and mentor software architects and developers in developing best-in-class software solutions.
• Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through code and design reviews and by using data / telemetry to make decisions.
• Develop best-in-class engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and components are : well-defined and modularized secure reliable reusable diagnosable and actively monitored.
• Stay up to date on existing and state-of-the-art technologies cloud deployments microservice development and conduct POCs to evaluatetechnology fits for customer needs.
• Optimize for performance cost and sustainability in cloud deployments

Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field.
• 10 years (5 in architecture)of experience in software development and architecture with a focus on cloud-based solutions and microservices.
• Expertise in modern patterns (microserviceseventdriven) API design leveraging AI.
• Excellent crossteam communication and stakeholder leadership.
• Proven experience leading and mentoring development teams in an Agile environment.
• Proven experience owning end-to-end solution delivery including design implementation and post-release operational accountability for medium-to-large projects
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving skills; the ability to think creatively and strategically to identify and address complex technical challenges under pressure while communicating clearly and professionally with both customers and internal sales teams.
• Experience with DevOps practices and toolsincluding continuous integration and delivery automated testing and infrastructure as code.
• Strong experience with CI / CD (Jenkins / GitLab) artifact mgmt (Nexus) and secure SDLC.
• Knowledge of security best practices and experience implementing secure software solutions.

Preferred

• Retail / POS; Systems Management Hardware Drivers Windows / Linux; C / C# / Java / JavaScript; observability (ELK / Prometheus).

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is a dynamic billion-dollar global company based in Research Triangle Park NC providing retail store solutions to your favorite brands. Have you ever been in a hurry and made use of the self-checkout at Lowes Foods earned fuel rewards at Kroger or just paid for purchases at retailers such as Walmart Michaels Carrefour The Gap Calvin Klein Boots Cencosud BJs or Costco These are just a few examples of our in-store solutions and impressive customer base that made us the worlds installed market share leader.

The nature of retail is changing quickly so if you share our Together Commerce vision of a seamless two-way participatory shopping experience lets get together to drive the new economy.

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Inc. offers a competitive salary and generous benefits package including the following :

• Group health coverage (medical dental & vision)
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Pre-tax spending accounts
• 401(k) plan (with company match)
• Company provided life insurance
• Pet Insurance
• Employee discounts
• Generous paid holiday schedule paid vacation & sick / personal days

EEO

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to age ancestry color religious creed disability marital status medical condition genetic information military or veteran status national origin race sex gender gender identity gender expression and sexual orientation or any other protected factor. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories consistent with legal requirements.

Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process should email to request an accommodation

DIVERSITY EQUITY & INCLUSION

We at Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions firmly believe that our people are an integral part to the success of our customers. Furthermore were committed to Diversity Equity and Inclusion for all our people as highlighted by our 5 Core Principles (Create Outreach Foster Belonging Unleash Opportunity Diverse Cultural Engagement and Culture of Transparency). Were passionate about our customers the retail industry and becoming a more responsible company as we help create a brighter future.

Required Experience

Senior IC

Key Skills

APIs,Spring,.NET,DevOps,Cloud Infrastructure,IaaS,AWS,Solution Architecture,Cloud Architecture,PaaS,Java,Azure

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1