Senior Staff Architect, Altium365
Renesas Electronics3 days ago
Cambridge, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead domain-driven design by facilitating domain modelling, defining bounded contexts, and maintaining shared domain models.
- Define and maintain the target architecture for Altium 365 across all deployment environments.
- Guide API strategy, integrations, the Developer Center, and architecture for partner-built vertical solutions.
- Shape AI-agent access to Altium data, including MCP, authentication, scopes, and security.
- Advise teams through the architecture advice process and own cross-cutting decisions and architecture decision records.
- Build prototypes and proofs of concept, review designs, mentor engineers, and contribute hands-on in the codebase.
- Influence platform direction and architecture practices across teams, locations, and languages.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software development experience and substantial experience architecting a large cloud platform.
- Practical experience with domain-driven design and model-first approaches, including introducing them to other teams.
- Strong C#/.NET experience or another modern language with willingness to work in C#, plus the ability to prototype quickly.
- Experience building multi-tenant, multi-region SaaS products.
- Strong understanding and practical experience with distributed systems, data storage, and OAuth/OIDC.
- Strong API design judgment covering versioning, compatibility, and schema evolution.
- Ability to understand complex systems quickly and work with incomplete information.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and experience influencing teams across geographies and languages.
- Hands-on use of AI coding tools with discipline to review their output.
- Preferred experience includes GraphQL federation, MCP, LLM-based tools, agentic systems, government or sovereign cloud, China deployments, SaaS and on-premises product delivery, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, EDA, PCB design tools, or the electronics industry.
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, and bicycle and scooter storage.
- Regular permanent employment; remote work is not available.
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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.