Software Architect

Metric Bio; England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A mission-driven medical technology company is seeking a Digital Architect for a key on-site position in Oxford. This senior role combines technical architecture with leadership responsibilities, guiding the execution of the company's digital strategy. Key tasks include managing digital architecture, leading a small engineering team, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. Ideal candidates should be experienced in orchestrating scalable platforms and maintaining architectural governance in a challenging environment.

Responsibilities

• Owning end-to-end digital architecture across cloud, applications, IoT, and data platforms.
• Leading architectural decision-making and guiding hands-on implementation.
• Managing and improving delivery with an onshore/offshore external development partner.
• Providing technical leadership to a small internal engineering team.
• Ensuring systems meet regulatory, security, and safety-critical standards.

Job description

Job Description

Metric Bio is partnering with a rapidly growing, mission-driven medical technology company to recruit a Digital Architect for a critical on-site role in Oxford.

This is a senior, blended position combining hands-on technical architecture with technical leadership and delivery ownership. You’ll act as the primary technical authority across internal engineering teams and an external delivery partner, playing a central role in shaping and executing the company’s digital strategy.

The organisation has an ambitious digital roadmap for the coming year, focused on evolving and scaling core platforms in a regulated environment. A significant focus of the role will be ensuring platforms are scalable, compliant, and submission-ready for regulatory approval, while also maturing engineering practices and architectural governance.

Key responsibilities include:

• Owning end-to-end digital architecture across cloud, applications, IoT, and data platforms
• Leading architectural decision-making and guiding hands-on implementation
• Managing and improving delivery with an onshore/offshore external development partner
• Providing technical leadership to a small internal engineering team
• Ensuring systems meet regulatory, security, and safety-critical standards
• Supporting greenfield initiat...