Software Architect, AI Engineer, Software Engineer

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

Hybrid – North West

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

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.

• 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.

• 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 / Postgre
  
  SQL / 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.

• 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, Dev Ops, 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.