Principal Solutions Architect

Salary: £100, per year

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect within a SaaS or enterprise technology environment
• Strong Azure background
• Experience with distributed systems, APIs, integration, and event-driven design
• Ability to operate commercially and influence senior stakeholders
• Comfortable navigating complex enterprise landscapes

• Designing scalable, cloud-native solutions across Azure
• Defining architectural patterns for event-driven and microservices-based systems
• Working closely with senior engineering leaders and product teams
• Translating complex business capability into robust technical solutions
• Driving integration strategy across internal and external platforms
• Governing design quality without becoming a bottleneck

• Architect
• Azure
• Cloud
• microservices
• API
• CI/CD
• Dev Ops

We are a large-scale, enterprise SaaS organization undergoing a significant cloud-native transformation and are looking for a Principal Solution Architect to help shape the next generation of our platform ecosystem. This role offers a competitive salary of up to £100,000, a £6,300 car allowance, and an up to 30% bonus. We offer a hybrid work environment based in central Manchester. This high-visibility role is crucial for our business as we invest heavily in engineering excellence and long-term platform scalability.