Principal Architect

Shift- UK shift

• Lead technology strategy, architecture, and execution for strategic products and enterprise platforms
• Translate business priorities into scalable, secure, and supportable technology solutions
• Define and drive target-state architecture for cloud-native and hybrid enterprise applications
• Lead product/platform modernization initiatives with strong focus on Azure adoption, engineering standardization, and long-term maintainability
• Partner with business, product, and engineering stakeholders to shape technology roadmaps and delivery priorities
• Drive architecture decisions across applications, data, integrations, security, resilience, observability, and support models
• Champion modern engineering practices and platform design patterns across the technology organization
• Introduce and scale AI-enabled solutions, intelligent automation, and agentic capabilities within enterprise products and workflows
• Mentor architects and senior engineers, and raise the overall quality of architecture and engineering decision-making

• Significant experience in senior technology leadership, enterprise architecture, or product/platform engineering roles
• Proven track record of building products or platforms from the ground up and scaling them into production
• Strong experience leading architecture and delivery of enterprise applications on Microsoft Azure
• Deep expertise with the Microsoft technology stack, including:

• Azure Functions

• Cosmos DB
• Azure Storage
• Key Vault

• Strong architecture experience across:
• Microservices
• API-led architecture
• Event-driven systems
• Distributed systems
• Integration architecture
• Cloud security and governance
• Scalability, resilience, and operability patterns
• Strong understanding of how to design stable, maintainable, supportable enterprise application stacks
• Practical experience with AI-enabled product development, including intelligent workflow solutions, agentic patterns, enterprise automation, and governed AI deployment
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with ability to influence across technology and business leadership

• A senior technology leader with strong architectural depth and product mindset
• Comfortable operating across strategy, architecture, and execution
• Experienced in modernizing complex enterprise platforms
• Hands-on enough to guide design decisions credibly, while leading teams and driving outcomes — writes code, builds prototypes, and produces working reference implementations to validate ideas and set engineering standards
• Demonstrates a prototyping-first mindset: defaults to tangible working artefacts over abstract slide decks to de-risk decisions and accelerate team adoption
• Passionate about using cloud and AI capabilities to create durable, enterprise-grade products

• Experience in large, global, multi-team technology environments
• Experience in platform modernization, cloud transformation, and enterprise integration
• Experience establishing engineering standards, governance, and architecture best practices across teams
• Hands-on experience in Financial Services technology — specifically Alternative Investments, fund administration, hedge fund platforms, or capital markets systems is a plus
• Familiarity with financial data workflows such as NAV calculation, fund accounting, investor reporting, KYC/AML, or LP/GP portal systems is an advantage