Software Architect

Uniting Ambition; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm seeks a Software Architect to design the architecture for a high-scale .NET platform. This role involves defining design principles and leading solutions across event-driven and microservices systems. Ideal candidates will have strong experience in C#, .NET, and cloud services like AWS. The position offers hybrid working between Manchester and Staffordshire, allowing significant influence over architectural direction and the opportunity to work in a supportive engineering culture with high autonomy.

Benefits

High autonomy

Strong engineering culture

Supportive leadership team

Qualifications

• Proven experience architecting distributed, high-throughput platforms.
• Strong technical background with C# / .NET and microservices.
• Hands-on experience with event streaming and real-time data systems.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture, design principles, and technical roadmap.
• Lead end-to-end solution design across event-driven and cloud-native systems.
• Drive the modernization journey from .NET to cloud.

Skills

C#

.NET

Kafka

Microservices

API design

AWS

AI/ML

SQL

Event streaming

Real-time data systems

Job description

Software Architect Lead the Future of a High-Scale .NET Platform

C#, .NET, Kafka, SQL, AWS, AI/ML, Event-Driven Systems

Hybrid North West

Are you ready to design and shape the core architecture of a platform built to support global scale, rapid growth, and long-term innovation?

We are at the start of a major systems transformation modernising a mission-critical platform into a cloud-native, event-driven, high-performance ecosystem. With significant investment and deep technical ambition, this is a chance to build the foundation for the next decade of our engineering evolution.

This is not just a coding role. We re seeking a Software Architect who combines technical depth with strategic thinking someone who can set vision, mentor teams, and lead architectural decision-making while staying close enough to the code to guide best practice.

What You ll Do

• Define the architecture, design principles, and technical roadmap for a highly scalable, distributed platform.
• Lead end-to-end solution design across event-driven, microservices, and cloud-native systems.
• Drive the modernisation journey: .NET to cloud, service boundaries, data flows, operational tooling.
• Work hands‑on where required providing technical leadership, code review, and architectural oversight.
• Partner with stakeholders across engineering, product, data and business leadership.
• Embed performance, reliability, observability, and resilience into system design from day one.
• Help shape our evolving use of AI/ML for optimisation, automation, and predictive insights.

What We’re Looking For

• Proven experience architecting distributed, high‑throughput platforms in enterprise or scale‑up environments.
• Strong technical background with C# / .NET and deep understanding of microservices and API design.
• Hands‑on experience with event streaming and real‑time data systems (e.g., Kafka).
• Solid database experience (SQL / PostgreSQL / SQL Server).
• Experience architecting or migrating systems into AWS (preferred) or another major cloud.
• Ability to lead, influence, mentor and align cross‑functional engineering teams.
• Experience guiding platform modernisation or large‑scale rebuilds.
• Exposure to or curiosity about applying AI/ML to real‑world engineering problems.

Why Join Us

• Hybrid working choose Manchester or Staffordshire as your primary hub.
• Major influence over the architecture and future of a high‑scale engineering platform.
• Opportunity to introduce modern patterns, observability, DevOps, automation, and AI‑driven capabilities.
• High autonomy, strong engineering culture, supportive leadership team.

If you re driven by architecting for scale, shaping technical strategy, and leading teams toward world‑class engineering delivery, we d love to speak to you.