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# Principal Software Architect

- **Company:** Spectrum IT Recruitment
- **Location:** Uxbridge, UK
- **Salary:** £100,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Application Integration Architecture, Microsoft Azure, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Technical Debt, Data Management, Api Design
- **Published:** August 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5827652828

## About the Role

* Proven experience defining architecture across SaaS, product-led, or platform-based environments
 * Experience working across complex, multi-system, or distributed technology landscapes
 * Strong understanding of API design, integration architecture, and service-oriented systems
 * Cloud architecture experience, ideally within Azure
 * Strong appreciation for security by design, resilience, scalability, and operational excellence
 * Comfortable influencing technical direction without formal management responsibility
 * Experience leading platform consolidation or large-scale modernisation programmes is highly advantageous

## Description

* Define architectural principles, standards, and target-state designs across our platform
 * Drive platform consolidation and reduce duplication across systems
 * Define service boundaries, ownership models, and integration patterns
 * Review significant technical initiatives and provide architectural guidance across multiple engineering teams
 * Embed security, resilience, scalability, and observability into platform design from the outset
 * Identify architectural risk, technical debt, and platform constraints
 * Partner with Engineering and Product leadership on strategic technical decisions
 * Influence engineering teams through technical credibility rather than direct line management

Technologies:

 * API
 * Architect
 * Azure
 * Cloud
 * CTO
 * Security
 * Support, We are seeking a Principal Architect to shape the future of our broad, complex technology platform across multiple systems, services, integrations, and data capabilities. This is a hybrid role based in Uxbridge, Greater West London, with two days onsite per week and a salary of £100,000 to £120,000 plus benefits. You will report to our CTO and work closely with senior engineering and product leaders to create a more consistent, scalable, and maintainable architecture. This is a genuine platform-level architecture position focused on influencing the long-term technical direction of an evolving technology landscape.


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