Software Architect — Flexible Hours & Growth

Rx Global; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

RX Global is seeking a Software Architect to provide architectural leadership across its product portfolio, guiding delivery of scalable, secure software solutions. You will work with Principal Engineers, delivery teams, and stakeholders to align architecture with business strategy and long-term technology goals.

The role emphasizes governance, security, performance, and maintainability, with a focus on cloud-native, microservices-based architectures and domain-driven design.

Qualifications

• Experience in software engineering and architecture roles within complex enterprise environments.
• Proven ability to design and govern large-scale distributed cloud-native systems.
• Knowledge of microservices, event-driven architecture and domain-driven design.
• Experience with API design, systems integration and messaging technologies.

Responsibilities

• Deliver scalable, secure, maintainable software architectures aligned to business goals.
• Define architectural direction and governance for consistency and quality.
• Ensure security, resilience, scalability, performance and operability of solutions.
• Mentor teams and provide architectural oversight to enable delivery.
• Drive platform simplification and reuse to improve maintainability.
• Influence technology strategy and roadmap with emerging technologies.

Skills

Software architecture

Cloud-native

Microservices

Event-driven design

Domain-driven design

API design

Security

Observability

Infrastructure as code

Decision making

Tools

AWS

Containerisation

IaC (Terraform)

Observability tooling

Job description

RX Global is seeking a Software Architect to provide architectural leadership across its product portfolio, guiding delivery of scalable, secure software solutions. You will work with Principal Engineers, delivery teams, and stakeholders to align architecture with business strategy and long-term technology goals.

The role emphasizes governance, security, performance, and maintainability, with a focus on cloud-native, microservices-based architectures and domain-driven design.