About the Role
Let’s be upfront, this isn’t your standard architecture gig.
It’s a chance to shape both the tech strategy and digital experience, covering everything from salesforce and martech to portals, CMS, and the custom applications - front end, back end, and integrations that tie it all together.
Ideal for a Principal on the rise or an Architect early in their journey who's delivered real solutions and wants to own a domain while staying close to the tech and making a real impact. 

 
What You’ll Be Doing

• Own architecture for the digital domain, spanning customer portals, mobile apps, salesforce, martech, and the front-end, back-end and integration layers that support them.
• Set the direction - develop standards, practices, and lightweight governance where it’s currently lacking.
• Act as a servant leader to squads, influencing without blocking, and empowering teams to own their architecture.
• Support a broader CI/CD uplift and engineering modernisation program.
• Build real partnerships with stakeholders - technical and business.
• Work closely with engineering squads to guide architectural decisions and help shape what good looks like across digital platforms.
• Help grow the architecture capability as the team scales from 3 to 5 in the next year. 

 
About You
You’re not just an Architect - you’re a connector, enabler and change agent. You’re as comfortable drawing a solution diagram as you are influencing senior stakeholders or coaching engineers.

• You come from Engineering, and you haven’t lost your grip on what makes real-world architecture work.
• Strong experience in digital architecture: customer-facing portals, mobile apps, websites, CMS, and the technical architecture that powers them (back-end, front-end, APIs, services, integrations).
• Working knowledge of CRM architecture: Salesforce preferred, but flexible.
• Confident across all the architectural layers: integrations, security, cloud platforms (AWS), and modern API design.
• Appreciation for CI/CD, DevOps, pipelines and platform maturity.
• Strong business and stakeholder acumen - able to bring people on the journey without over-engineering.
• You enjoy being part of a small, growing architecture function, helping shape its DNA.

 
Expectations

• Shape Something Real: Be part of a progressive architecture practice that’s still evolving. Influence how things are done, not just what gets done.
• Change That Matters: Help modernise platforms and uplift customer and internal digital experiences.
• Lean, Collaborative Team: Join a tight-knit team working closely with Principal Architects and Engineering Leads.
• Generous Leave: 29 days annual leave (including flexi days and Christmas shutdown).
• Wellbeing Support: Wellbeing budget, income protection, and hybrid flexibility (3 days in-office).