Staff Engineer; Solution Architect

Overview

Location(s):
Glasgow / Kings Langley - 3 days on-site / 2 days WFH

Comp
: £85,000 - £100,000 depending on experience and location

The company:

Lawrence Harvey are partnered with an incredibly successful renewable energy company that are making massive strides towards granting everyone accessibility to affordable, zero-carbon energy.

Establsihed globally across the Wind, Solar, Energy Storage, Green Hydrogen and Tran mission/Distribution industries - this business manage a significant existing operational giga-watt footprint, with a huge amount in the pipeline.

You'll be delivering scalable, secure and maintanable cloud-native solutions across cloud infrastructure, data platforms and application layers, whist translating architectural vision into executable technical designs and providing hands-on leadership to engineering teams.

• Define and communicate architectural vision across multiple engineering teams.
• Design and implement scalable, cloud-native solutions with strong emphasis on Databricks (Delta Lake, MLflow, notebooks).
• Enable advanced analytics, data engineering, and machine learning workflows to support data-driven decision-making.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, data scientists, platform engineers, and developers.
• Provide hands-on guidance on architectural patterns and best practices.
• Conduct technical reviews to ensure alignment with security, compliance, and performance standards.
• Champion modular design, enterprise integration patterns, and API strategies.
• Drive Dev Ops adoption, CI/CD, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
• Evaluate and guide adoption of emerging technologies.

• Cloud Architecture: Azure-based design, security, identity, compliance
• Data Platforms: Lakehouse architecture, OLTP/OLAP, batch & streaming systems, Databricks (Delta Lake, MLflow)
• Engineering Practices: Python or Node/Type Script, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, API integration