Senior Solutions Architect - SaaS Platform & Cloud

Lead Forensics; Portsmouth; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Employee volunteer days

Positive culture

Growth mentality

Flexible working options

Job summary

A growing SaaS company based in the UK is seeking a Solutions Architect for a hybrid role where you will lead architectural design and mentor developers. You will need strong skills in cloud technologies, specifically AWS, and a solid understanding of architectural patterns. The ideal candidate has a robust background in development and experience within B2B SaaS environments. This role offers competitive salary and the chance to influence the direction of the platform within a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years in a software architect role.
• Strong technical development background, having progressed through hands-on engineering roles.
• Experience in mature SaaS organizations with high customer volumes.

Responsibilities

• Work with the Principal Architect on architectural patterns and mentoring developers.
• Design Group Platform for fast-moving new products and features.
• Ensure software initiatives align with the group's strategy.
• Mentor Lead Developers on improving solution design.
• Set direction for new technologies and tools.
• Hands-on coding of proofs of concept and prototypes.

Skills

Architectural patterns

DevOps practices

Microservice architecture

Event-driven architecture

Cloud technologies (AWS)

Distributed teams experience

Education

Computer Science or similar technical disciplines

Tools

NestJS

NodeJS

Vue

Redis

SQL Server

SingleStore

Job description

A growing SaaS company based in the UK is seeking a Solutions Architect for a hybrid role where you will lead architectural design and mentor developers. You will need strong skills in cloud technologies, specifically AWS, and a solid understanding of architectural patterns. The ideal candidate has a robust background in development and experience within B2B SaaS environments. This role offers competitive salary and the chance to influence the direction of the platform within a fast-paced environment.