Senior Staff Architect
Renesas Electronics13 hours ago
Cambridge, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead domain-driven design, including domain modelling, bounded contexts, and shared domain models.
- Define and maintain Altium 365’s target architecture across deployment environments.
- Guide API strategy, integrations, the Developer Center, and partner-built vertical solutions.
- Shape AI-agent interaction with Altium data, including MCP, authentication, scopes, and security.
- Advise engineering teams and own cross-cutting architecture decisions and architecture decision records.
- Build prototypes and proofs of concept, review designs, mentor engineers, and work hands-on in the codebase.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software development experience and substantial experience architecting a large cloud platform.
- Practical domain-driven design and model-first experience, including introducing these approaches to other teams.
- Strong C#/.NET experience or another modern language with willingness to work in C# and prototype quickly.
- Experience building multi-tenant, multi-region SaaS products.
- Strong understanding and practical experience with distributed systems, data storage, OAuth, and OIDC.
- Strong API design judgment covering versioning, compatibility, and schema evolution.
- Ability to understand complex systems, work with incomplete information, and influence teams across geographies and languages.
- Hands-on use of AI coding tools with discipline in reviewing their output.
- Preferred: GraphQL and federation, MCP, LLM-based tools or agentic systems, government or sovereign cloud, China deployments, SaaS and on-prem product delivery, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, EDA, PCB design tools, or electronics-industry experience.
Benefits
- Private health insurance including dental coverage.
- Pension scheme with company match up to 9%.
- nilo.health mental health and wellbeing support.
- Remote working abroad program.
- Professional development support and resources.
- Employee referral program.
- 28 days’ holiday plus public holidays and special leave.
- Enhanced family and special leave.
- Free lunch, snacks, and drinks in the office.
- Electric car charging stations, free office parking, bicycle, and scooter storage.
- Regular PERM employment; remote work is listed as unavailable, despite the remote-working-abroad program.
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About Renesas Electronics
Renesas Electronics designs and sells microcontrollers, analog and power ICs, and connectivity solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT manufacturers. Its portfolio spans embedded processing, power management and ADAS-ready components, sold directly and through channels to OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers, with software and development tools to integrate them. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Tokyo, it is a public company on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and has expanded through acquisitions including Intersil and Dialog Semiconductor.