Systems Architect

La Fosse
Manchester, United Kingdom
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Compensation
£ 90K

Job location

Manchester, United Kingdom

Tech stack

.NET
Software Quality
Python
Systems Development Life Cycle
Togaf
Software Coding
Multiplatform

Job description

The Systems Architect partners with Enterprise Architecture, Development teams, and Transformation teams to ensure technology solutions consistently support business objectives.

This role is accountable for defining, maintaining, and communicating end-to-end solution designs across a variety of initiatives, while providing technical oversight throughout delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and continuously evolve solution architectures working with cross-functional stakeholders, incorporating application, data, and infrastructure components as needed.
  • Provide technical leadership to delivery teams, improving designs, and reinforcing engineering best practices.
  • Collaborate and align with engineers, analysts, business stakeholders, project leaders, and transformation teams to ensure design integrity.
  • Uphold technical standards, governance processes, and methodology compliance; recommending improvements where appropriate.
  • Participate in project planning, guiding teams to maintain alignment with the broader architectural vision.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience leading end-to-end architectural design
  • Hands-on architectural experience with technologies such as .NET, Python,
  • Experience in the insurance sector.
  • Experience with cloud platforms (ideally GCP)
  • Deep understanding of SDLC methodologies and architectural approaches across multi-platform environments.
  • Strong grasp of coding standards and code quality practices, including peer review processes.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage effectively across technical and business audiences.
  • Demonstrated experience developing long-term architectural roadmaps and translating them into executable initiatives.
  • Relevant certifications (eg, TOGAF) preferred.

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