Software Architect - Telecoms

MBR Partners; Greater London; On-site; GBP 66,000 - 106,000; Full time

Job summary

MBR Partners in London is seeking a senior leader to own and evolve the technical architecture for a global, high-throughput telecommunications platform. You will guide distributed engineering teams, translate business goals into scalable system designs, and balance innovation with reliability.

The role requires deep DevOps, cloud, and AI-driven architecture experience, plus strong stakeholder management with product and executive teams. A global, strategic technology agenda will be your focus.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software architecture or senior engineering leadership roles.
• Proven experience defining technical strategy for complex, distributed R&D teams.
• Strong track record of aligning technical design with business outcomes and budget goals.
• Experience designing complex, high-throughput platform-based or telecommunications solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to design globally distributed, highly available systems.
• Deep experience with Agile software development and continuous integration environments.
• Multi-year experience in the telecommunications industry, including standard data processing and data-to-settlement workflows.
• Strong analytical mindset with ownership of technology trade-offs and risk management.
• Ability to bridge high-level business strategy and low-level code execution seamlessly.
• Expert understanding of the software development lifecycle, DevOps, and cloud infrastructure.
• Excellent technical leadership across multidisciplinary engineering and product teams.
• Strong stakeholder management from technical developers to business executives.
• Data-driven decision-making, benchmarking capabilities, and pattern evaluation discipline.
• Experience designing AI and automation-led architecture is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end technical architecture, system design, and technology stack selection.
• Lead and mentor engineering teams globally on architectural patterns and standards.
• Inform investment trade-offs by evaluating technical debt and infrastructure costs.
• Ensure the technical viability and high-quality delivery of product releases.
• Define and implement engineering frameworks, design patterns, and development standards.
• Translate telecommunications market trends such as AI, cloud-native, and automation into scalable systems.
• Work closely with Product and R&D leaders to deliver clear technical value propositions.
• Engage key customers to understand technical integration constraints and operational pain points.
• Establish strong technical governance, code quality baselines, and design review processes.
• Optimise platform design to maximise resource utilization, performance, and speed to market.
• Define and drive architectural strategy and technical roadmaps across the portfolio.
• Guide global engineering teams to deliver against architectural blueprints.
• Balance innovation with system reliability and platform scalability.
• Engage with product managers, developers, and internal stakeholders to shape solutions.
• Align system architecture with business priorities and commercial constraints.
• Champion AI, automation, and next-gen telecommunications platform evolution.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud & DevOps

AI & automation architecture

Stakeholder management

Technical strategy

Product collaboration

Data-driven decisions

Telecommunications domain

CI/CD & Agile

Job description

Salary: £66,000 - 106,000 per year

Requirements

• 5+ years in software architecture or senior engineering leadership roles.
• Proven experience defining technical strategy for complex, distributed R&D teams.
• Strong track record of aligning technical design with business outcomes and budget goals.
• Experience designing complex, high-throughput platform-based or telecommunications solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to design globally distributed, highly available systems.
• Deep experience with Agile software development and continuous integration environments.
• Multi-year experience in the telecommunications industry, including standard data processing and data-to-settlement workflows.
• Strong analytical mindset with ownership of technology trade-offs and risk management.
• Ability to bridge high-level business strategy and low-level code execution seamlessly.
• Expert understanding of the software development lifecycle, DevOps, and cloud infrastructure.
• Excellent technical leadership across multidisciplinary engineering and product teams.
• Strong stakeholder management from technical developers to business executives.
• Data-driven decision-making, benchmarking capabilities, and pattern evaluation discipline.
• Experience designing AI and automation-led architecture is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end technical architecture, system design, and technology stack selection.
• Lead and mentor engineering teams globally on architectural patterns and standards.
• Inform investment trade-offs by evaluating technical debt and infrastructure costs.
• Ensure the technical viability and high-quality delivery of product releases.
• Define and implement engineering frameworks, design patterns, and development standards.
• Translate telecommunications market trends such as AI, cloud-native, and automation into scalable systems.
• Work closely with Product and R&D leaders to deliver clear technical value propositions.
• Engage key customers to understand technical integration constraints and operational pain points.
• Establish strong technical governance, code quality baselines, and design review processes.
• Optimise platform design to maximise resource utilization, performance, and speed to market.
• Define and drive architectural strategy and technical roadmaps across the portfolio.
• Guide global engineering teams to deliver against architectural blueprints.
• Balance innovation with system reliability and platform scalability.
• Engage with product managers, developers, and internal stakeholders to shape solutions.
• Align system architecture with business priorities and commercial constraints.
• Champion AI, automation, and next-gen telecommunications platform evolution.

Technologies

• AI
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Architect

More

We own the technical vision, architectural strategy, and system design for our telecommunications product portfolio. This senior leadership role sits at the intersection of emerging technology, scalable system design, and engineering execution, and it helps drive our technical and innovation agenda. We work globally with product managers, developers, R&D leaders, and internal stakeholders to deliver high-quality, innovative, and commercially viable solutions, with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, governance, and speed to market.

last updated 36 week of 2026