Software Architect - Telecoms

Job Description: Software Architect

Position Overview

The Software Architect owns the technical vision, architectural strategy, and system design of the telecommunications product portfolio. This senior leadership role bridges product requirements and technical execution, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, innovative, and commercially viable solutions. You will operate at the intersection of emerging technology, scalable system design, and engineering execution, driving the company's technical and innovation agenda.

A Day in the Life

• Strategy: Define and drive architectural strategy and technical roadmaps across the portfolio.
• Execution: Guide global engineering teams to deliver against architectural blueprints.
• Scale: Balance cutting-edge innovation with system reliability and platform scalability.
• Engagement: Engage with product managers, developers, and internal stakeholders to shape solutions.
• Alignment: Align system architecture with business priorities and commercial constraints.
• Innovation: Champion AI, automation, and next-gen telecommunications platform evolution.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Ownership: Own the end-to-end technical architecture, system design, and technology stack selection.
• Leadership: Lead and mentor engineering teams globally on architectural patterns and standards.
• Financials: Inform investment trade-offs by evaluating technical debt and infrastructure costs.
• Delivery: Ensure the technical viability and high-quality delivery of product releases.
• Architecture: Define and implement engineering frameworks, design patterns, and development standards.
• Innovation: Translate telecommunications market trends (AI, cloud-native, automation) into scalable systems.
• Collaboration: Work closely with Product and R&D leaders to deliver clear technical value propositions.
• Relationship: Engage key customers to understand technical integration constraints and operational pain points.
• Governance: Establish strong technical governance, code quality baselines, and design review processes.
• Efficiency: Optimise platform design to maximise resource utilization, performance, and speed to market.

Key Success Measures

• Performance: Platform reliability, uptime, and system performance metrics.
• Predictability: Architectural readiness and quality (minimised technical debt, reusable components).
• Adoption: Successful adoption of core frameworks by global engineering teams.
• Velocity: Platform scalability, deployment automation, and overall development velocity.

Experience & Background

• Leadership: 5+ years in software architecture or senior engineering leadership roles.
• Integration: Proven experience defining technical strategy for complex, distributed R&D teams.
• Commercials: Strong track record of aligning technical design with business outcomes and budget goals.
• Domain: Experience designing complex, high-throughput platform-based or telecommunications solutions.
• Scale: Demonstrated ability to design globally distributed, highly available systems.
• Methodology: Deep experience with Agile software development and continuous integration environments.
• Industry: Multi-year experience in the telecommunications industry, including standard data processing and data-to-settlement workflows.

Skills & Capabilities

• Mindset: Strong analytical mindset with ownership of technology trade-offs and risk management.
• Bridge: Ability to bridge high-level business strategy and low-level code execution seamlessly.
• SDLC: Expert understanding of the software development lifecycle, DevOps, and cloud infrastructure.
• Collaboration: Excellent technical leadership across multidisciplinary engineering and product teams.
• Influence: Strong stakeholder management—from technical developers to business executives.
• Analysis: Data-driven decision-making, benchmarking capabilities, and pattern evaluation discipline.
• Tech: Experience designing AI and automation-led architecture is highly desirable.