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About the Role

This is a senior architecture role with a strong engineering focus, responsible for shaping and assuring integration architecture. You will turn wider technology strategy into practical, implementable patterns for engineering teams, supporting the modernization of our integration landscape towards a governed platform of reusable services, REST APIs, business events, and MCP interfaces on Azure.

Responsibilities

Own and evolve the target architecture, principles and migration roadmap for Integration Services, defining clear business-domain boundaries, service ownership and stable contracts.
Set reusable architectural patterns for APIs, business events, adapters, synchronous and asynchronous communication, versioning and compatibility.
Design Azure integration solutions using services including API Management, Service Bus, Logic Apps, Functions, App Services, Container Apps or AKS, Key Vault and appropriate data services.
Define non-functional and engineering requirements across security, resilience, performance, scalability, observability, supportability, disaster recovery, infrastructure as code, CI/CD and automated testing.
Create safe modernisation and coexistence approaches for legacy and partner platforms, including adapter patterns, cutover, rollback and decommissioning.
Establish secure-by-design standards across identity, authentication, authorisation, secrets and network controls, alongside appropriate governance for MCP and other AI-facing interfaces.
Maintain hands-on technical credibility through targeted prototypes, proof-of-concepts and technical spikes that help de-risk important architectural decisions.
Lead and contribute to architecture reviews, maintaining clear decisions, standards, reference designs and service documentation, while mentoring developers and enabling teams to make sound technical decisions within agreed architecture.
Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Data Architecture, Security, Cloud Platforms and delivery teams to ensure integration designs align with wider organisational strategy and controls.
Provide timely architectural guidance during discovery, refinement and delivery, escalating significant enterprise, security, data, commercial or cross-portfolio risks to the appropriate accountable owner.

Requirements

Substantial senior software engineering experience followed by credible solution-architecture accountability in complex production environments.
Recent hands-on C# and .NET credibility, including .NET 10+, ASP.NET Core, Web APIs and production microservices.
Strong domain-driven design, distributed-systems and event-driven architecture practice, including service boundaries, contracts and failure modes.
Deep Azure integration and platform knowledge: Service Bus, API Management, Logic Apps, Functions, App Services, Container Apps or AKS, Key Vault, Application Insights and Azure Monitor.
Practical Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code delivery, CI/CD automation and automated testing strategy.
Secure API and service design using OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT and Microsoft Entra ID.
Ability to balance strategic architecture with delivery pragmatism, operational constraints and incremental migration.
Strong written and visual architecture communication, senior stakeholder influence and constructive challenge across organisational boundaries.
SAP, Blue Yonder, BiblioSuite, EDI or broader B2B integration.
MCP, AI-agent architectures and governance of AI-facing services.
Platform engineering, developer self-service and product operating models.
Data modelling, semantic design, event sourcing or operational data ownership within domain services.
Power Platform integration and governance.
Vendor assessment, procurement support and technical due diligence.

Skills

C#
.NET 10+
ASP.NET Core
Web APIs
Microservices
Domain-Driven Design
Distributed Systems
Event-Driven Architecture
Azure
Service Bus
API Management
Logic Apps
Functions
App Services
Container Apps
AKS
Key Vault
Application Insights
Azure Monitor
Terraform
Infrastructure-as-Code
CI/CD
Automated Testing
OAuth 2.0
OpenID Connect
JWT
Microsoft Entra ID
SAP
Blue Yonder
BiblioSuite
EDI
B2B Integration
MCP
AI Agent Architectures
Platform Engineering
Data Modelling
Event Sourcing
Power Platform

Location

Embassy Gardens, London
Frating, Colchester

Work Type

Hybrid
Permanent

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

up to £80,000

Benefits

Generous bonus scheme

About the Company

The Technology team provides expertise and effective solutions to Penguin Random House. We integrate flexibility and agility which supports our consistent way of working. We set ourselves up for success by holding ourselves accountable and welcoming change. Each member of the Technology team brings skill and initiative to their role; we take personal ownership within a one team culture, working collaboratively to meet expectations from our stakeholders who trust us to deliver.

Equal Opportunity

As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we offer interviews to candidates with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role, and opt-in on their application form.
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