Platform Architect

<div class="content-intro"><p>We fuse together exceptional talent who deliver outstanding software solutions. Our approach has helped us grow 60% in 2021, 94% in 2022, while in 2023 we joined forces with Insight, a Fortune 500 company and a leading solutions and systems integrator. With exciting growth plans and cutting-edge projects, there has never been a better time to join our incredible team. </p></div><p><strong>Job Description</strong></p> <p>We are seeking an experienced Platform Architect to shape, govern, and continuously evolve the platform that underpins all current and future products. This is a senior, hands-on architecture role focused on platform coherence, composability, and long-term sustainability - not individual application design.</p> <p>The Platform Architect is accountable for the clarity and quality of architectural decisions and for how architecture shows up in day-to-day delivery. This is not an ivory-tower role. Success is measured by clear decisions, lightweight governance, and architecture that teams actively use to move faster - rather than by documents alone.</p> <p><strong>Main Duties and Responsibilities</strong></p> <p>Platform Architecture & Strategy</p> <ul> <li>Define, own, and continuously evolve the target platform architecture for company's Vision, aligned with business strategy, product roadmaps, and long-term scalability goals.</li> <li>Establish and maintain clear architecture principles, standards, and guardrails across cloud, integration, data, security, and application layers.</li> <li>Ensure the platform remains composable, enabling autonomous product teams to build, deploy, and evolve services without tight coupling.</li> <li>Maintain and publish platform reference architectures that reflect real-world usage and guide day-to-day design decisions.</li> </ul> <p>Architectural Decision-Making & Learning</p> <ul> <li>Design and own a lightweight Architectural Decision Record (ADR) approach, embedded into existing delivery tools and workflows.</li> <li>Ensure architectural decisions are explicit, documented, and can be revisited in time.</li> <li>Facilitate architectural trade-off discussions, helping teams converge on pragmatic decisions.</li> <li>Establish feedback loops to assess the impact of architectural decisions and evolve principles and standards based on learning.</li> <li>Foster a culture where architecture is treated as a shared learning system, not a compliance exercise.</li> </ul> <p>Cloud, Integration & Data Foundations</p> <ul> <li>Design and govern cloud-native architectures leveraging Azure (or equivalent), containerisation, and event-driven patterns.</li> <li