Senior Software Architect — SaaS, Cloud & AI Innovation

Data Science Festival; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare package

Life assurance

Holiday trading

Retail discounts

Gym membership

Learning & development

Job summary

Data Science Festival is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead architectural direction in a growing SaaS platform. This hands-on technical leadership role blends design oversight with coding excellence.

You will mentor engineers, shape cloud-native solutions on Azure, collaborate with Product and stakeholders, and help advance engineering standards while balancing speed and security.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and delivering software in modern engineering environments.
• Strong commercial experience with C#, ASP.NET, Azure, React and REST APIs.
• Experience mentoring engineers and promoting engineering best practice.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, secure, maintainable software solutions.
• Lead architectural decisions balancing innovation, performance and sustainability.
• Drive engineering best practices, coding standards and software quality.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Mentor and coach engineers to raise technical capability.
• Champion modern software engineering practices and automation.
• Explore AI-powered development tools to add value.
• Support delivery of cloud-native SaaS in a security-focused environment.

Skills

C#

ASP.NET

Azure

React

REST APIs

Job description

Data Science Festival is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead architectural direction in a growing SaaS platform. This hands-on technical leadership role blends design oversight with coding excellence.

You will mentor engineers, shape cloud-native solutions on Azure, collaborate with Product and stakeholders, and help advance engineering standards while balancing speed and security.