Application Architect (Azure, Microservices, Event-Driven)

As an Application Architect within Fourth, you shape scalable, maintainable software architectures across strategic initiatives. You work embedded with delivery teams to guide design choices, ensure architectural alignment, and evolve standards. You collaborate with engineers, product, and other architects to deliver high-quality, AI-enabled solutions that balance technical excellence with pragmatic delivery. This role offers impact across a global SaaS portfolio and opportunities to advance engineering practices with AI.

• 25 holidays (up to 30 with service)
• flexible and hybrid working
• wellness activities and gym discounts
• laptop and equipment provided
• healthcare expense claim tools
• certification growth opportunities with annual meetups/education benefits

• Deliver architecture for strategic projects ensuring scalability, maintainability, and security aligned with architectural direction
• Provide hands-on architectural leadership within delivery teams from concept to delivery
• Evolve and contribute to architectural standards, patterns, and engineering principles
• Create architectural designs, decision records, and documentation to support long-term maintainability
• Participate in architecture, design, and code reviews to ensure alignment with principles
• Collaborate with business, product, engineering, and fellow architects to translate requirements into solutions
• Own architectural direction of initiatives balancing business objectives with technical quality
• Identify technical risks and debt and work with teams on remediation plans
• Design and evolve AI-enabled engineering practices, tooling, and delivery pipelines
• Use AI-assisted tools to prototype, validate, and deliver architectural solutions and reference implementations
• Research and evaluate new technologies to improve engineering effectiveness and deliver value
• Champion adoption of AI and emerging technologies to enhance capabilities and quality
• Share knowledge and mentor engineers to improve Fourth's architecture and engineering communities

• Demonstrable hands-on experience in application or software architecture and engineering
• Strong knowledge of application design patterns and architectural styles (e.g. microservices, event-driven, layered)
• Experience with modern application frameworks and technologies
• Experience with API design, microservices, and distributed systems architecture
• Excellent collaboration and problem-solving skills with ability to document and communicate complex solutions
• Ability to lead and manage projects and teams in a fast-paced environment
• Proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages
• Solid understanding of the end-to-end Software Development Lifecycle
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (preferably Microsoft Azure) and their application services
• Awareness of or hands-on experience with AI tools and technologies and their application in software development and engineering productivity

• collaboration
• problem-solving
• clear communication
• application design patterns
• microservices
• event-driven architecture