Software Architect - Java | DDD | TypeScript

The role: Principal Software Architect (Domain-Driven, Delivery-Focused)Who: Appvia.ioWhere: London (hybrid working (1-2 days per month at a minimum)What you get: £80-100k DOE + 10% Bonus + 10% share optionsAppvia is a cloud, platform and software engineering consultancy doing serious work, and we need a Principal Software Architect who has genuinely led domain discovery, owned solution design end-to-end, and delivered microservice architectures where service boundaries actually come from the domain, not from a diagram drawn in a workshop.You'll need to bring:Real, hands-on DDD experience: strategic and tactical patterns applied to complex systems in production. Not theory, not advisory, but actually done it.Proven leadership of domain discovery with business stakeholders: Event storming, domain storytelling, or equivalent. You drive the room, you don't just facilitate it.End-to-end architectural ownership: ADRs, C4, defending decisions at senior stakeholder level with confidence.Strong full-stack delivery capability: Java / Spring Boot as your core, TypeScript / React alongside it. You're still close enough to the code to be credible with engineers.A consulting mindset: you translate messy business problems into clean technical solutions, not the other way around.Experience growing architectural thinking across a team: mentoring engineers, raising the bar, leaving things better than you found them.Core stack: Java / SpringTypeScript / JavaScriptNoSQL / SQLDocker / KubernetesGitLabMavenAWSPlaywrightNice to have: GovUK UI FrameworkAzure / GCP.NETBefore you apply, please read this:This role requires SC Clearance eligibility. That means British Passport or ILR, 5 years continuous UK residency, clean financial and criminal record - this is non-negotiable. Candidate relocation and visa sponsorship are not available.If that's you; send your CV for immediate review or message me directly for a confidential conversation first. More than happy to have a chat if you'd like to dig into this further