Cloud Architect (Product) in Bradford

We’re looking for a Cloud Architect (Product) to join our team in Leeds on a permanent basis. This hybrid role offers flexibility, with two days in the office and three days working remotely. As a Cloud Architect (Product), you will play a pivotal role in shaping the architecture of our cloud‑native SaaS products. You will define, document, and oversee the application-level architecture to ensure our solutions are secure, scalable, maintainable, and aligned with the organisation’s broader technology strategy. Partnering closely with Product, Engineering Leads, Platform, Security, and Data teams, you will translate business objectives into well‑structured technical designs and guide engineering squads through delivery. This is a hands‑on, influential position that sets the technical direction for our products and ensures our engineering teams build solutions that support the company’s long‑term vision.

What will you be doing?

• Own the application and solution architecture for product squads, ensuring alignment with cloud‑native and platform standards.
• Translate product requirements into scalable, maintainable system designs and integration patterns.
• Define clear API contracts, service boundaries, event flows, and domain models.
• Collaborate with Platform, Security, and Infrastructure teams to meet standards for IAM, networking, security, observability, and CI/CD.
• Produce and maintain architecture artefacts, including HLDs, sequence diagrams, API specs, and decision records.
• Support engineering teams with design guidance, coaching, and hands‑on implementation input.
• Lead architecture reviews, identifying risks, dependencies, and security considerations.
• Promote modern engineering practices—modularity, reusability, event‑driven design, and automated quality controls.
• Contribute to agile planning through epic shaping, technical discovery, estimation, and defining pragmatic architectural approaches.
• Help refine and embed engineering standards and best practices across squads.

We tend to look for people with:

Essential

• Strong background in software engineering with a proven track record of delivering cloud‑native applications.
• Experience designing solutions on GCP or another major cloud platform, with a solid grasp of cloud‑native architectural patterns.
• Deep understanding of microservices, RESTful APIs, event‑driven architectures, and distributed systems.
• Hands‑on experience with modern front‑end, back‑end, and integration technologies (e.g., React, Node.js, Python, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL).
• Strong foundation in cloud security, IAM, networking, data flows, and observability.
• Skilled in producing and reviewing high‑level designs, solution architectures, and technical standards.
• Comfortable working directly with engineering teams to support design decisions, troubleshoot issues, and guide implementation.
• Clear and confident communicator, able to explain technical concepts to technical and non‑technical stakeholders alike.
• Experienced in agile, product‑led delivery environments.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and how they shape architectural choices in partnership with Platform teams.

Desirable

• GCP Professional certifications (Cloud Architect).
• Exposure to compliance-sensitive environments (SOC1/SOC2, ISO 27001, GDPR).

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary.
• 25 days annual leave with the option to purchase 5 more.
• Enjoy your birthday off, plus receive an additional 3 days of annual leave once you reach 5 years of service.
• Access to wellbeing and mental health benefits such as the Calm app, personal medical, critical illness cover and dental insurance, plus many more.
• Matched pension contribution up to 10%.
• Access to our car benefit scheme.
• Access to our online learning platform to continue to develop and grow your career with us.
• The chance to join an innovative, fast-paced and passionate team.

Who we are:

Liberty Blume, a Liberty Global company, is a rapidly growing business services provider, specialising in tech-enabled back-office solutions. Our mission is to deliver efficiency, scale and value to our customers through Business, Procurement and Financial Solutions. If you’re curious, customer centric and enjoy being one step ahead, join us on our scale up journey and unlock your freedom to grow! Liberty Global is an equal opportunity employer, committed to an inclusive environment and accommodating all candidates. We’re eager to hear from you, no matter your background.