As a family-owned business our people are central to our success, and following years of organic, consecutive growth, we're looking for people who share our core values of sustainability, trust, collaboration, and innovation to drive us forwards.
Software never stays the same and neither do we. We want our people to be part of a progressive organisation, encouraged to embrace change and new ideas to shape our future development. Your input is vital, which is why we're committed to personalised learning paths for every employee to help you, and us, grow.
Our goal is to make the world of work easier as a leader in the HR, payroll, finance, and integration solutions software and services industry. We're proud to design and develop some of the best business solutions like iTrent and People First to support our customers' people-related challenges across every vertical.
Looking for the place where you can belong? Join MHR and help us shape the world of work.
Are you ready to be at the forefront of cutting-edge technology, shaping the future of tech? Join our dynamic team and unleash your potential in an environment that fosters creativity, collaboration, and continuous growth. Together, our global software teams push boundaries, drive innovation, and build a brighter future in tech.
Key Responsibilities:
As a Software Solution Architect you will be working with the latest cloud technologies and Microsoft Azure cloud, supporting the development of ground-breaking HR, Payroll and Finance Software Systems.
You will work with delivery teams and key stakeholders to provide decision making, support and guidance to develop the People First platform sustainably and effectively. You will develop and evangelize architectural design principles and initiatives to benefit software development and to achieve business outcomes.
Cloud Native Application Design: Collaborate with technical leads to design applications that run effectively in the Azure cloud.
Develop Deep Domain Knowledge: Build a deep understanding of the HR + Payroll domain and communicate your technical vision to unpin it.
Stakeholder Engagement: Maintain strong relationships with key technical and business stakeholders.
Requirements Ownership: Oversee non-functional requirements, service level objectives, and platform quality attributes.
Technology Investigation: Investigate new technologies and determine how they can be utilised within People First.
Strategic Roadmaps: Develop comprehensive roadmaps to adopt new capabilities into the application architecture.
Enterprise Collaboration: Work with enterprise architecture to provide a solution architecture perspective and support broader business architecture goals.
Communication: Clearly communicate the benefits of architectural enhancements to business stakeholders.
Cross-Functional Support: Assist cross-functional teams in product development to ensure a high-quality architecture.
Architectural Expertise: Act as the subject matter expert for architectural patterns within the software platform.
Compliance Governance: Ensure platform compliance with the Azure well-architected framework.
Continuous Learning: Stay updated with the latest developments on the Azure platform and identify relevant new capabilities.
Process Improvement: Drive continuous process improvement and maintain a solutions-focused mindset.
Documentation and Guardrails: Establish and document guardrails and reference architectures to guide engineering implementations.
Team Collaboration: Work with other solution architects and the wider architecture team to define effective solution architectures.
Key Technical Skills:
- Strong foundation of software application development (ideally Java or .NET)
- Strong understand of design patterns and effective software architecture design
- Strong understanding of service integration. - especially messaging and REST
- Good understanding of cloud native application design
- Strong ability to communicate architectures both verbally and using effective written communication and diagramming
- Knowledge of web security standards (OAuth2, OIDC)
- Good understanding of Microservice principles
- Domain Driven Design
- AI/LLM knowledge beneficial
- Ability to investigate new technologies and propose suitable integration strategies
Benefits to support you personally and professionally
Alongside the opportunity to work with an incredible team and express your individuality, we offer a range of personalised benefits including:
- Access to over 60 internal training courses, professional qualifications, and cross-departmental mentoring and coaching programs
- 24/7 access to a GP through SmartHealth for you and your family, confidential mental health support, and paid sick leave
- Ability to purchase or sell additional holiday days beyond the standard 25 days and bank holidays
- Discounts and cashback on leisure, travel, technology, fashion, gym memberships, and food
- Monthly employee recognition program and departmental awards
- Referral bonus scheme of up to £2,000
- Employee-led social events such as running clubs, football teams, book clubs, and bake-offs
- On-site subsidised restaurants offering a variety of fresh meals daily
- Opt-in benefits schemes such as private medical insurance and dental coverage
We value the well-being, financial stability, and inclusivity of our employees, and strive to provide a supportive working environment.