Solutions Architect (Hands-on)

Location: Leeds or Manchester, UK; no set office days, but you must be within easy reach of one of these offices or a client site for important meetings, workshops, and key moments.

Company

hirify.global is a digital product consultancy that builds apps, websites, and AI platforms for public and private sector clients in health tech, retail, and financial services.

What you will do

• Design systems for client projects using recognised architecture patterns.
• Write production code alongside engineering teams.
• Design and build cloud infrastructure, pipelines, and environments.
• Lead the technical side of workstreams with tech leads and architects.
• Build AI-agent prototypes and proofs of concept to test ideas early.
• Support engineers with less cloud experience and help estimate new work.

Requirements

• Experience designing and building software on commercial projects.
• Enough cloud or DevOps experience to build cloud-native systems, ideally on AWS, using recognised architecture principles and design patterns.
• Experience leading the technical side of a project or workstream, even without the formal title.
• Production coding experience in TypeScript, Python, or Node; strength in any one is sufficient.
• A good grasp of architecture gained from working alongside architects.
• Interest in system design and enjoyment of both architecture and implementation.
• Experience building with AI agents beyond asking a chatbot for code; personal projects count, and a GitHub repository that can be discussed is a useful demonstration.
• Confidence explaining technical decisions to non-technical people.
• Equal strength in software and cloud is not expected; suitable backgrounds may include senior software, cloud, or DevOps engineering.

Nice to have

• Experience working directly with clients.
• Consultancy or agency background.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully flexible remote status with no expectation to come to the office, while office use remains available and in-person attendance is required for important meetings, workshops, and key moments.
• 28 days of holiday plus bank holidays.
• Five Impact Days for learning, innovation, or volunteering, plus a learning budget and time for training and conferences.
• Two wellbeing days, a wellbeing budget, free counselling, enhanced sick pay, and enhanced parental leave.
• Cycle to Work scheme and a company laptop.
• Work in project teams of 5–15 people alongside agentic engineers, software engineers, QA, and designers.

Hiring process

• Click Apply; the company usually responds within three days.