Senior Staff Architect, Octopart
Renesas Electronics3 days ago
Cambridge, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define Octopart’s long-term product and platform architecture with engineering and product leadership.
- Lead domain-driven design, including bounded contexts, shared domain models, and alignment with Altium’s Common Data Model.
- Set standards for API consistency, versioning, deprecation, compatibility, and schema evolution.
- Shape integrations between Octopart, Altium products, customers, and partners.
- Guide the architecture of high-volume data ingestion, processing, storage, and search systems.
- Translate the needs of consuming teams, customers, and partners into platform capabilities.
- Advise teams through the architecture advice process and own cross-cutting decisions and architecture decision records.
- Build prototypes and proofs of concept, review designs, and mentor engineers.
- Work hands-on in a large codebase and high-volume production systems.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software development experience, including substantial experience as an architect of a large-scale, data-intensive platform.
- Practical experience with domain-driven design and model-first approaches, including introducing them to other teams.
- Track record of setting and executing long-term architecture direction over several years.
- Experience designing public APIs, ideally GraphQL, including versioning, compatibility, and schema evolution.
- Experience with large-scale data ingestion, processing, and search.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and data storage.
- Strong engineering skills in a modern programming language and the ability to prototype quickly.
- Ability to understand complex systems, work with incomplete information, and communicate effectively with teams, customers, and partners.
- Hands-on experience with AI coding tools and the discipline to review their output.
- Experience with Go, React, Next.js, Elasticsearch, ScyllaDB or Cassandra, GraphQL federation, schema governance, public API product management, common data models, MCP, LLM-based tools, or agentic systems is preferred.
- Experience with electronic components, supply chain or distribution data, or the electronics industry is preferred.
Benefits
- Regular permanent employment (PERM).
- Remote work is not available; the role is based in Cambridge and involves working closely with the Octopart engineering team.
- Competitive benefits package; further details are provided during the hiring process.
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.