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.

Job Description 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. 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.

Responsibilities

Platform Architecture & Strategy Define, own, and continuously evolve the target platform architecture for company's Vision, aligned with business strategy, product roadmaps, and long-term scalability goals. Establish and maintain clear architecture principles, standards, and guardrails across cloud, integration, data, security, and application layers. Ensure the platform remains composable, enabling autonomous product teams to build, deploy, and evolve services without tight coupling.

Maintain and publish platform reference architectures that reflect real-world usage and guide day-to-day design decisions. Architectural Decision-Making & Learning Design and own a lightweight Architectural Decision Record (ADR) approach, embedded into existing delivery tools and workflows. Ensure architectural decisions are explicit, documented, and can be revisited in time.

Facilitate architectural trade-off discussions, helping teams converge on pragmatic decisions. Establish feedback loops to assess the impact of architectural decisions and evolve principles and standards based on learning. Foster a culture where architecture is treated as a shared learning system, not a compliance exercise.

Cloud, Integration & Data Foundations Design and govern cloud-native architectures leveraging Azure (or equivalent), containerisation, and event-driven patterns. Define integration standards and patterns (APIs, events, messaging) to enable interoperability between company's products, third-party systems, and legacy maritime platforms. Collaborate with data and product stakeholders to establish consistent data models, data ownership, and data flow principles across the platform.

Ensure platform designs support scalability, resilience, observability, and operational excellence. Architecture Governance & Enablement Act as the architectural authority for the platform, ensuring alignment with agreed principles while avoiding unnecessary delivery friction. Embed architecture touchpoints into product discovery, initiative shaping, planning, and cross-team initiatives.

Establish and run a regular architecture review cadence focused on decision-making and learning, not sign-off. Continuously evolve governance mechanisms to remain lightweight, proportionate to risk, and scalable across teams. Actively identify and remove architectural processes that slow teams down without improving outcomes.

Technology Evolution & Risk Management Own the technology evolution roadmap for the platform, identifying modernization opportunities, technical debt, and emerging technologies. Proactively assess and mitigate architectural risks related to security, compliance, scalability, resilience, and operational complexity.

Requirements

relevant to a SaaS maritime platform.