Principal Solution Architect
* Salary: Up to £100,000 base + £6,300 car allowance + up to 30% bonus
* Location: Hybrid - Manchester (central)
The Opportunity
A large-scale, enterprise SaaS organisation is undergoing a significant cloud-native transformation and requires a Principal Solution Architect to help shape the next generation of its platform ecosystem.
This is not a governance-only architecture role. This is hands-on, commercially aligned architecture at serious scale.
You will sit at the intersection of product, engineering and enterprise stakeholders, owning solution design across complex distributed systems, driving architectural standards, and influencing long-term platform strategy across multiple business domains.
What You'll Be Doing
* Designing scalable, cloud-native solutions across Azure
* Defining architectural patterns for event-driven and microservices-based systems
* Working closely with senior engineering leaders and product teams
* Translating complex business capability into robust technical solutions
* Driving integration strategy across internal and external platforms
* Governing design quality without becoming a bottleneck
Environment
1. Azure cloud-native platform