Senior Software Architect - Edge-as-a-Service Leader

J&T Business Consulting; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software consulting company in the United Kingdom seeks an experienced Software Architect to lead the design and development of industrial-grade software products. You will work in a hybrid model, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable and efficient solutions, focusing on innovative Edge-as-a-Service offerings. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in cloud technology and software architecture.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Opportunities for professional growth

Inclusive work environment

Qualifications

• Proven experience in senior technical leadership within software product development.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to unify multiple stakeholders around technical goals.
• Expertise in designing and developing enterprise applications as web services.
• Proficiency in frontend technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and frameworks including React, Angular.
• Solid backend development skills in Go, Java, Python, REST or GraphQL.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior technical leadership in software design and development.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define and maintain the technical vision for Edge-as-a-Service products.
• Lead and mentor development teams in migrating on-premise solutions to hosted web services.
• Design and scale web services supporting thousands of users and edge deployments.
• Implement best practices in CI / CD pipelines leveraging microservices containerisation.

Skills

Technical leadership

Software development

Software design

System architecture

Scalability

Microservices

Containerisation

Orchestration

CI / CD

Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud)

Frontend development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)

Backend development (Go, Java, Python)

REST APIs

GraphQL

SQL

NoSQL

DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

Agile methodologies

Jira

GitHub

Security best practices

Mentoring and team collaboration

Technical vision

UI / UX collaboration

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering

Job description

A leading software consulting company in the United Kingdom seeks an experienced Software Architect to lead the design and development of industrial-grade software products. You will work in a hybrid model, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable and efficient solutions, focusing on innovative Edge-as-a-Service offerings. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in cloud technology and software architecture.