Principal Architect – Engineering Lead
StarCompliance
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United Kingdom
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About the role
- Own and evolve the target software architecture for a distributed, multi-tenant SaaS platform operating at scale.
- Ensure the continued effective documentation of these systems, ensuring the catalogue is in a healthy state.
- Contribute to the wider organizations engineering teams design of highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable systems using modern distributed systems principles.
- Work closely with peers in Platform and Infrastructure to continue to evolve our service delivery practices.
- Ensure principles that are followed are turned into established re-usable patterns.
- Evolve our multi-tenant architecture patterns, including tenant isolation, data partitioning, security boundaries, and scalability models.
- Provide deep expertise in messaging and integration patterns event-driven architectures, pub/sub, CQRS, eventual consistency, idempotency, etc.).
- Chair the Architecture forum, continuing to evolve our robust approach to complex decision making.
- Ensure architectural decisions balance performance, security, operability, cost, and developer productivity.
- Promote consistency without stifling autonomy, enabling teams to move fast on a well-defined platform foundation.
- Mentor senior and principal engineers, raising the overall architectural maturity of the organization.
- Work closely with engineering leadership to align architecture with delivery realities.
Requirements
- Typically 10+ years of commercial software development experience with at least several years of these in a multi-tenant, cloud hosted organization.
- Experience working with enterprise-scale SaaS platforms.
- Relevant certificates are a plus, but not essential.
- Right to work in the country of employment.
Benefits
- All positions require pre-employment screening due to employees potentially having access to highly sensitive and confidential information involving finance and compliance.
- Equal Opportunity Employer Statement: We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, marital/civil union/domestic partnership status, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by country, state, or local laws.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
software architecturedistributed systemsmulti-tenant architectureevent-driven architecturepub/subCQRSdata partitioningsecurity boundariesfault-tolerant systemsscalable systems
Soft Skills
mentoringdecision makingcollaborationcommunicationleadershiporganizational skillsproblem solvingautonomyconsistencyproductivity