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Solutions Architect

Lead Forensics
Po63En, PO6 3EN, United Kingdom
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Permanent
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Senior
Education
Degree
Posted
18 May 2026 (Last week)

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Positive culture that values onsite collaboration High influence and impact role Close collaboration with experienced CTO
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Solutions Architect

Location: Portsmouth -Hybrid working - One day per week on-site

Summary

Lead Forensics is a rapidly growing, leading SaaS company with products in the B2B sales and marketing space. We’re seeking a Software Architect (Platform and Solutions focus) within our engineering department that builds our customer facing product suite. You will be working alongside our Principal Architect, working on both long-term strategic architecture work as well as supporting Lead Developers with the design of new products and features.

You will be working with our modern tech stack (NestJS/NodeJS, Vue, Redis, SQL Server and SingleStore) and will need to be highly competent in designing large scale cloud first (AWS), high performanceSaaS solutions that can handle high data throughput and large data sets.

This is a role that would suit someone with a very strong development background, with expertise in creating clean code, following DevOps practices and with strong interpersonal skills, who has moved into an architectural career path.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Working with the Principal Architect to determine architectural patterns, principles and practices that support our strategy; then mentoring developers to implement features in a way that follows these ideals.

  • Apply design patterns and best practices to design the Group Platform, enabling the delivery of fast moving and innovative new products and features.

  • Taking ownership of ensuring Lead Forensics Group software initiatives are designed and implemented in alignment with our strategy.

  • Mentor, and support Lead Developers, helping them continuously improve on rapidly designing commercially balanced solutions.

  • Proactively setting the direction for use of new technologies and tools.

  • Hands on Coding of Proof of Concepts and Prototypes as well as reviewing code to ensure adherence to our standards.

About You:

Experience & Background

  • 3–5+ years in asoftware architect role.

  • Strongtechnical development background, having progressed through hands-on engineering roles.

  • Experience operating withinmature SaaS organisations, ideallyB2B SaaS with high customer volumes.

Experience working withdistributed and offshore teams.

Technical & Methodological Strength

  • Comfortable engaging at bothstrategic and detailed technical levels when required.

  • Deep understanding ofmodern DevOps practicesand architecture patterns that support this.

  • Experience designingmicroservice architecture.

  • Experience designingevent driven architecture.

  • Experience developing software with cloud technologies (preferably AWS).

  • Experience with a range of database technologies and practices including OLAP, OLTP, ETL and Data Warehousing.

  • Experience withAI architecture.

Mindset Style

  • Highly analytical, adaptable, and able to operate withmental agility in a fast-moving environment.

  • Commercially aware, pragmatic, and outcome focused.

  • Strong academic grounding is valued — particularlyComputer Science or similar technical disciplines.

The ideal candidate will have:

  • Extensive experience designing and developing complex/distributed systems in a SaaS environment following the DevOps methodology, using cloud-native technologies and microservices, with a broad experience in decoupled modular architecture, SOLID and Clean code, design patterns and testing.

  • Significant experience and ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders, to elicit, clarify and disseminate requirements then design commercial optimal solutions that take technical, scheduling and cost constraints into account.

  • Significant previous experience as a hands-on software engineer, and to have maintained the skills required to get down into the code when required.

Why Join Lead Forensics:

A senior technical role with high influence and impact.

Work closely with an experienced CTO on shaping the future of the platform.

Be part of a fast paced, forward-thinking company, that is driving a high performance and commercial approach to SaaS.

Positive culture that values onsite collaboration.

What we offer in return:

Employment with a fast-growing UK SaaS company

Competitive salary and benefits.

Be part of a fantastic company culture; we all display our Company DNA’s, foster a “One Team” and ‘Growth’ mentality.

Give back to the wider community with volunteer days, fundraisers and charity events

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