Software Architect
🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 21 March 2026
LOCATION
Cambridgeshire
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
SALARY
£100,000 / year
CATEGORY
Software
This employer holds a UK Home Office sponsor license — sponsorship for this specific role is at the employer’s discretion
SKILLS
System Architecture
OPC-UA
GAMP5
C/C++/C#
Python
JavaScript
FULL DESCRIPTION
Software Architect - Cambridgeshire. Salary: £70k - £100k + bonus + excellent benefits!
Reference: 634995. Consultant: Adam Mayne.
Requirements of Software Architect - High Technology R&D:
- Minimum BEng/BSc degree in Computer Science or Engineering discipline or equivalent.
- Proven recent and relevant experience defining system architect and high-level product specifications to create robust, scalable, and secure solutions with familiarity with OPC-UA, GAMP5, and software for GMP applications.
- Have identified requirements and worked with connectivity to 3rd party systems, both local and cloud based, for manufacturing control systems.
- Utilised appropriate tools and methodologies to define software requirement specifications and architecture.
- Led development teams to select implementation technologies and establish quality assurance processes aligned with architecture.
- Ensured consistency of development progress with initial design, adapting architecture and plans as needed.
- Experience in commercial software development and coding (e.g. C, C++, C# (.NET), Python, JavaScript)
- Desirable: Experience in working with PLCs in process control environments
- Desirable: Application software (industrial automation, networking protocols, UI frameworks, IT systems)
- Desirable: Experience in developing software for communications protocols including OPC-UA, MQTT, REST
- Desirable: Experience developing software in regulated, process-control industries
Job Location: Cambridgeshire (Commutable from: Cambridge, Bedford, Huntingdon, St Neots, Peterborough, Stevenage , etc)
Salary: £70k - £100k + Bonus + excellent benefits!
Sound like you, or someone you know? If so, please do not hesitate to get in contact with Adam Mayne at [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] Ltd on [contact hidden] or [contact hidden].
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