IT & Software

Principal Systems Architect

Spectrum IT Recruitment

Southampton · Hampshire · United Kingdom

Overview

As a Principal System Architect, you will provide technical leadership across the development of advanced, high-performance technology. You will shape product architectures and define technical direction across hardware, software, FPGA and ASIC domains, translating complex requirements into scalable solutions. You will guide multidisciplinary engineering teams and engage with customers and partners to ensure alignment with strategy and delivery. This role blends strategic influence with hands-on architectural expertise to tackle challenging integration and performance issues. You’ll work to influence product roadmaps and long-term technology planning, making a meaningful impact on complex,领域

Responsibilities
  • Lead architectural development across complex products and IP, aligning customer requirements with product strategy and engineering delivery
  • Define system architectures including hardware/software partitioning, interfaces and implementation approaches
  • Lead architectural and algorithm trade-offs considering performance, throughput, latency, resource usage and power
  • Provide technical direction on requirements, system decomposition, architectural modeling, performance analysis and verification strategy
  • Guide implementation decisions across software, FPGA and ASIC platforms
  • Lead customer technical discussions, feasibility studies and integration activities
  • Resolve complex engineering issues and maintain architectural consistency across products and teams
  • Mentor engineers and architects, contributing to standards and long-term technology planning
Key requirements
  • Extensive experience in system architecture and development of complex signal-processing, modem or communications products
  • Proven ability to define, analyse and manage complex system and product requirements
  • Strong experience in hardware/software partitioning, interface definition and architectural design
  • Ability to lead technical trade-offs across software and hardware implementations
  • Demonstrable technical leadership across multidisciplinary engineering teams
  • Significant customer-facing experience, including technical studies, solution evaluation and product or IP integration
  • Knowledge of 3GPP standards, including 5G NR or significant 4G LTE experience
  • Strong communication skills to explain complex concepts to engineering and commercial stakeholders
  • clear communication
  • stakeholder engagement
  • mentoring and coaching
  • system architecture
  • hardware/software partitioning
  • FPGA/ASIC development

Reference: WJ-747_31159526

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