Software Architect

Delta Controls Inc.; England; On-site; GBP 49,000 - GBP 59,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading building automation firm in the UK is seeking a skilled architect for their B2B e-commerce platform. The candidate will design scalable systems, ensuring data integrity and reliability while collaborating across teams. The role requires 6+ years in software engineering, extensive experience in high throughput systems, and strong technical communication skills. This full-time position offers a competitive salary, flexible work options, and opportunities for personal and professional growth.

Benefits

Employee-centric culture

Flexible hours

Competitive compensation

Generous vacation allowances

Onsite fitness center

Free onsite parking

Company events

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant time in architecture roles.
• Proven experience designing scalable systems handling large data volumes and high throughput.
• Hands-on experience with B2B e-commerce platforms or complex transactional systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve scalable, highly available architectures capable of handling large datasets.
• Define architecture for B2B e-commerce domains including catalog, pricing, orders, and invoices.
• Make architectural decisions on system decomposition and service boundaries.

Skills

Experience in software engineering

Designing scalable systems

B2B e-commerce platforms

Technical communication skills

Time-management skills

Job description

About Delta Intelligent Building Technologies (Canada) Inc.(formerly known as Delta Controls).

Delta Intelligent Building Technologies (Canada) Inc. (a subsidiary of Delta Electronics) is a leading building controls manufacturer with over 300 partners in more than 80 countries. For over three decades, we have provided innovative building automation solutions for commercial, healthcare, education, and leisure facilities. We delivered the world’s first fully integrated BACnet building solution for HVAC, lighting, and access control.

Job Summary

This role will design and evolve highly scalable, data-intensive systems that power a B2B e-commerce platform for multiple business units. This role focuses on building resilient architectures that can handle large data volumes, complex business rules, and continuously changing requirements, while supporting long-term platform growth.

You will work closely with development team, product, and business stakeholders to translate evolving needs into pragmatic, scalable technical solutions. You will derive architectural frameworks to support business functional and non-functional requirements.

The role requires continual interaction with development teams to ensure designs evolve products in ways that minimize debt and maximize product maintainability, sustainability, and extensibility.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Design and evolve scalable, highly available architectures capable of handling large datasets, high transaction volumes, and peak traffic.
• Define architecture for B2B e-commerce domains including catalog, pricing, orders, customers, invoicing, and integrations.
• Make architectural decisions on system decomposition, including monolith vs microservices, service boundaries, and data ownership.
• Design for extensibility and change, enabling the platform to adapt to evolving business models and requirements.
• Define data architecture and strategies, including database design, data isolation, caching, scaling, and performance optimization.
• Ensure data consistency, integrity, security, and reliability across distributed systems.
• Partner closely with Product Strategy and Product Management to translate business needs and non-functional requirements into architectural solutions.
• Provide architectural direction and design principles to engineering teams; review and guide high-level system designs.
• Establish and maintain architectural standards, security and authentication requirements, and technology guidelines.
• Document product architectures as living artifacts, including principles, patterns, key mechanisms, and interfaces.
• Evaluate, prototype, and introduce new technologies and platforms where appropriate.
• Collaborate with tech leads to identify, manage, and reduce technical debt.
• Work with other architects to drive system-level architecture alignment across the organization.

Required Skills

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant time in architecture roles.
• Proven experience designing scalable systems handling large data volumes and high throughput.
• Hands‑on experience with B2B e-commerce platforms or complex transactional systems.
• Strong software design, implementation, and architecture practices
• Strong interpersonal, technical communication, and writing skills
• Team player
• Diplomatic
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills
• Established technical breadth

Nice to Have

• Background in pricing engines, order management, or large catalog systems.
• Exposure to changing regulatory or compliance requirements in B2B systems.
• Experience supporting integrations with external partners, ERPs, or payment systems.

Work Location

In-office environment that is currently 3 days per week
City: Surrey
Type: Full-time, Temporary - 1 year
Salary: 93,000 - 110,000CAD
This range reflects the minimum and maximum target payable for the base salary of new hires across all Canadian locations. Actual compensation may vary outside this range and is dependent on various factors.

Why work for us?

We provide fantastic opportunities to individuals passionate about business and technology. Delta Electronics products are the most energy efficient power products in the industry and our company is perfect for those who want to create, design and build sustainable solutions using massively scalable, big-data architecture, with a strong focus on building automation. Here are some of the Delta perks you’ll receive from day 1!

• Employee & safety centric culture with the possibility of remote work
• Flexible hours and scheduling available
• Competitive total compensation along with generous vacation allowances
• Three weeks of vacation
• Wellness - onsite fitness center & company reimbursement for personal gym memberships
• Internal Recognition & Service Awards
• Transit accessible with free onsite parking
• Regular company events such as "Food Truck Fridays", Lunch & Learn and other planned activities