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# Software Architect

- **Company:** Certainadvantage
- **Location:** Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (Remote available)
- **Salary:** £145,600.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Computing, Software Architecture, Devsecops
- **Published:** September 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.certainadvantage.co.uk/vacancy/software-architect-37488/

## About the Role

* Strong experience designing and owning software architectures for complex systems, preferably in a cloud environment with an awareness of DevSecOps
 * Ability to balance strategic thinking with practical delivery
 * Confidence communicating architectural designs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
 * Experience working in environments with security, reliability, and compliance constraints, preferably in the geospatial domain.
 * A collaborative mindset and passion for mentoring and supporting engineering teams

## Description

* Work with System Architects to translate business goals and high-level requirements into robust software architectures, balancing performance, security, reliability, and compliance
 * Design scalable, flexible, and maintainable architectures for complex geospatial systems using the latest modern cloud based technologies and tools
 * Identify technical risks early and define pragmatic mitigation strategies
 * Work in an AGILE scrum team, collaborating closely with software engineers, testers and the Product Owner, providing clear guidance and hands-on architectural support
 * Collaborate with development teams to select appropriate technologies, frameworks, and patterns
 * Ensure delivered solutions align with the agreed architecture and meet both functional and non-functional requirements
 * Produce clear, structured documentation covering architecture decisions and design rationale
 * Contribute to and support technical and architectural reviews


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