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# Software Architect

- **Company:** Spectrum IT Recruitment
- **Location:** Portsmouth, United Kingdom
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** £100,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Architectural Patterns, Big Data, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Databases, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Warehousing, DevOps, Online Analytical Processing, Node.Js, Online Transaction Processing, Redis, Standard Sql, Software Engineering, Snowflake, IT Architecture, Vue.js, Event Driven Architecture, NestJS, Microservices
- **Published:** November 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5958155278

## About the Role

* 3-5 years in a Software Architect role
 * Strong technical development background with hands-on engineering experience
 * Experience operating within mature SaaS organizations, ideally B2B SaaS with high customer volumes
 * Experience working with distributed and offshore teams
 * Comfortable engaging at both strategic and detailed technical levels
 * Deep understanding of modern DevOps practices and architecture patterns
 * Experience designing microservices
 * Experience designing event-driven architectures
 * Experience developing software with cloud technologies (preferably AWS)
 * Experience with a range of database technologies and practices including OLAP, OLTP, ETL, and Data Warehousing
 * Experience with AI architecture

## Description

* Shape and deliver the next generation of customer-facing platforms
 * Collaborate with teams to design large scale cloud-first SaaS solutions
 * Ensure high performance in software that can handle high data throughput and large data sets
 * Create clean code while following DevOps practices
 * Engage with both strategic and detailed technical discussions as required
 * Mentor and support junior developers in architectural best practices

Technologies:

 * AI
 * AWS
 * Architect
 * Cloud
 * DevOps
 * ETL
 * Support
 * NestJS
 * NodeJS
 * Redis
 * SQL
 * Snowflake
 * Vue
 * microservices