StarCompliance - Principal Architect Engineering Lead

• Own and evolve the target software architecture for a distributed, multi-tenant SaaS platform operating at scale. • Ensure the continued effective documentation of these systems, ensuring the catalogue is in a healthy state. • Contribute to the wider organizations engineering teams design of highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable systems using modern distributed systems principles. • Work closely with peers in Platform and Infrastructure to continue to evolve our service delivery practices. • Ensure principles that are followed are turned into established re-usable patterns. • Evolve our multi-tenant architecture patterns, including tenant isolation, data partitioning, security boundaries, and scalability models. • Provide deep expertise in messaging and integration patterns event-driven architectures, pub/sub, CQRS, eventual consistency, idempotency, etc.). • Chair the Architecture forum, continuing to evolve our robust approach to complex decision making. • Ensure architectural decisions balance performance, security, operability, cost, and developer productivity. • Promote consistency without stifling autonomy, enabling teams to move fast on a well-defined platform foundation. • Mentor senior and principal engineers, raising the overall architectural maturity of the organization. • Work closely with engineering leadership to align architecture with delivery realities. • Expert-level C# and .NET Core knowledge, with experience designing and evolving large-scale, microservices systems. • Deep hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, including core services, networking, identity, security, and platform services. • Proven expertise in distributed systems design, including event-driven and message-based architectures, consistency models and trade-offs, failure modes, resilience patterns, and recovery strategies. • Strong understanding of multi-tenant SaaS architectures, ideally in a production environment at scale. • Strong knowledge of messaging technologies and patterns. • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform) is highly desirable. • Familiarity with modern observability, monitoring, and operational tooling. • Typically 10+ years of commercial software development experience with at least several years of these in a multi-tenant, cloud hosted organization. • Experience working with enterprise-scale SaaS platforms. • Relevant certificates are a plus, but not essential. • Right to work in the country of employment.