Senior Software Architect

Company: NICE Systems
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Location: Southampton
Job Description:

Overview

As Lead Software Architect at NiCE, you shape AI-native delivery and secure, scalable cloud architectures for a public-safety platform. You will steer architectural direction, mentor engineers, and ensure responsible AI use across design, build, and run. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, maintainable solutions that leverage AI tooling. This role offers impact at scale within a fast-paced, innovation-driven environment that rewards learning and accountability. You’ll join a market-leading company committed to growth and cutting-edge tech.

Pay / Benefits

  • NICE-FLEX hybrid model (2 days in office, 3 days remote)
  • global, market-disrupting company with career opportunities
  • collaborative and creative work environment
  • opportunity to work with AI tooling and advanced technologies

Responsibilities

  • Own architecture and lead AI-driven design, implementation and validation in cloud, multi-threaded, multi-server environments
  • Drive technical decisions on architectural direction through collaborative teamwork
  • Ensure security, scalability, compatibility, maintainability and responsible AI use in build-time and run-time
  • Test, fix defects, and support customers as part of the product quality discipline
  • Enforce adherence to architectural direction and standards within the team
  • Mentor and coach team members in architecture methods, AI-led delivery, and AI output validation
  • Coordinate with Product Management during planning sessions

Key requirements

  • Proven experience building C# applications with Visual Studio/VS Code
  • Track record turning complex requirements into secure, scalable, and resilient designs
  • Experience with multi-tenant cloud solutions
  • Experience in collaborative, multidisciplinary teams
  • Maintainable code and source control experience (DevOps, GIT or similar)
  • Experience with unit testing, code reviews, and product quality disciplines
  • Solid understanding of network security, authentication, and authorization
  • Experience using Entity Framework or similar databases
  • Strong knowledge of SOLID principles
  • Experience creating RESTful APIs and ensuring API extensibility
  • Recent practical use of AI tooling (Copilot, Claude Code, Codex or equivalent) in daily work
  • Ability to describe what worked, what didn’t, and what you decided
  • Output discipline and accountability for your architecture
  • Comfort with probabilistic systems and judgements on AI use in high-trust domains
  • Learning velocity to ramp on new AI tools in days
  • Effective communicator across email, IM, phone and video
  • Strong problem-solving mindset
  • Curiosity about new design and development tools
  • C#
  • Visual Studio / Visual Studio Code
  • Multi-tenant cloud architectures

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Posted: October 16th, 2026