Hybrid Principal Solution Architect – Engineering

at Reward Gateway

• Job title: Principal Solution Architect – Engineering
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: £100,000 - £110,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, Microservices, PHP
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Principal Solution Architect at Reward Gateway contributing to technology landscape and employee engagement solutions. Working on modularization, CRM integrations, and scalable systems in a hybrid environment.

Responsibilities

• Design secure, scalable authentication flows across Edenred+ and Reward Gateway.
• Address multi-program user scenarios and SSO challenges across web and mobile platforms, in coordination with the group strategy on the topic.
• Lead architectural design for modular monoliths and microservices, based on DDD approach.
• Ensure scalability, reliability, and compliance with GDPR and Edenred standards.
• Architect integrations with CRM tools (Braze, Heap.io, LaunchDarkly) and Edenred’s broader ecosystem.
• Support convergence initiatives with platforms like Smarter and Explorer.
• Championing technology standards and patterns across engineering teams
• Contributing to enterprise roadmaps and technology strategy
• Guide engineering teams on architectural best practices.
• Participate in code reviews and mentor developers on secure and efficient design patterns.
• Regular collaboration with enterprise architects on strategic alignment
• Partnership with security and compliance teams on governance requirements
• Engagement with other solution architects to ensure consistency
• Produce architectural blueprints and transition plans.
• Collaborate with COEs to align with Edenred’s global architecture census and governance models
• Accountability for the creation and maintenance of architectural decision records.
• Participate in architecture review processes and approval workflows
• Ensure compliance with enterprise architecture standards and patterns, identifying and controlling divergences from established patterns
• Escalate architectural decisions that require broader organisational input

Requirements

• 5+ years in software architecture roles, ideally within large-scale cloud-native platforms.
• Deep practical knowledge and experience in domain-driven design
• Strong developer experience and knowledge around PHP is a nice-to-have
• Deep understanding of **OpenID Connect**, **OAuth2**, and **SAML** protocols
• Experience with CRM, Marketing, feature flagging, and analytics tools (Braze, Heap.io, Mixpanel)
• Proven ability to lead architectural migrations and manage technical debt.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills

Benefits

• Online interview with the Senior Talent Partner
• Online interview with the CTO
• Online interview with the VP of Engineering and CPO
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