Senior Technical Architect – Help shape the future of Evri’s technology landscape

Are you a visionary technical leader who thrives on solving complex architectural challenges? Do you enjoy turning high-level ideas into scalable, secure, well-designed technical solutions?

Join Evri as a Senior Technical Architect and play a pivotal role in defining how our products, platforms and engineering teams deliver the next generation of services to millions of customers across the UK. This is an 18-month fixed-term contract offering the opportunity to make a real impact during a period of transformation.

This is a 18 month Fixed Term Contract.

What you’ll be doing

As a Senior Technical Architect, you’ll translate high-level solution designs into clear, robust Low-Level Designs that enable engineering teams to deliver with confidence.

Working across Product, Engineering, UX and Enterprise Architecture, you’ll influence architectural direction, drive best practice and ensure our technology remains scalable, secure and fit for the future.

You’ll operate as a technical authority across multiple domains—supporting delivery, shaping requirements, managing technical debt and championing innovation through proof-of-concepts and emerging technologies.

Responsibilities

• Produce and maintain Low-Level Designs aligned to solution architecture and evolving business needs.
• Champion architectural standards, governance and best practice across teams.
• Identify and manage technical debt, driving refactoring and continuous improvement.
• Define and maintain API contracts and support developer enablement.
• Collaborate across Product, Engineering and Architecture to translate designs into delivery.
• Lead documentation, standardisation and proof-of-concept initiatives.
• Support incident resolution and improve system resilience.
• Mentor engineers and architects, and provide guidance to third parties and stakeholders.
• Assess risks, evaluate options and ensure solutions are scalable, secure and cost-efficient.

Interested? Here’s what you’ll need to be successful

• Strong experience in technical architecture and designing complex, scalable systems.
• Experience building commercial applications, with strong hands-on AWS experience (serverless desirable).
• Expertise in Java, Spring Boot and modern distributed/messaging-based architectures (e.g. SQS, RabbitMQ).
• Experience with API design, DevOps practices and modern engineering approaches.
• Strong understanding of databases (Oracle, RDS, NoSQL or similar).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, business-focused outcomes.
• A collaborative mindset, with experience mentoring and influencing others.
• AWS certifications and experience with emerging technologies (including AI) would be advantageous.

At Evri, we know we only grow if our people do too. That’s why we’re committed to building a truly inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone can bring – and be – their whole authentic selves. We’re on a journey to better represent the customers we serve across the UK, removing barriers and ensuring every colleague feels valued for who they are and what they bring.

We are Evri. Where everyone is welcome.
We’re excited for the future. Let’s deliver it together.

Every parcel, every person, every place – every delivery made for you.

Evri is leading the way in creating responsible delivery experiences for everyone, everywhere. And we’re doing that by offering the most convenient way to send, receive and return parcels without costing the earth.

Whether it’s a customer sending a present to a friend, a marketplace trader shipping in bulk or a major retailer such as John Lewis, asos or Next, we’ve got it covered. With our team of 30,000 couriers, thousands of local ParcelShops and a growing network of hubs and depots across the country, we safely get parcels from A to everywhere.

And it’s not just customers and retailers who trust us. We’ve won loads of industry awards over the past few years, including gongs for IT, innovation and our green fleet.

But we wouldn’t be the biggest dedicated parcel delivery company in the UK without amazing people. We’re a friendly, ambitious and diverse bunch, united by a passion for delivering the best customer experience. We have great opportunities throughout the business, so take a look to see where you might fit in. We can’t wait to hear from you.