About The Opportunity
This is an opportunity to register your interest in future Systems Engineer positions, where roles of this type could involve translating business challenges into robust technical architectures and guiding their implementation across enterprise environments.
Roles of this type may sit within collaborative technical teams in Manchester, working hybrid with remote flexibility.
Typical Role Overview
Location: Manchester, Greater Manchester, England — hybrid, with remote flexibility
Type: Contract Full-time
Rate: £700–850 per day
Focus: Enterprise systems architecture, infrastructure design and technical solutions
What You Would Do
- Designing end-to-end systems architectures that align business strategy with technical capability
- Evaluating technology options and recommending solutions that balance performance, cost and maintainability
- Working with engineering teams to implement and optimize systems across infrastructure and applications
- Collaborating with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications
- Documenting architectures, design decisions and implementation approaches for clarity and knowledge transfer
- Contributing to technical strategy and helping teams adopt best practices in systems design
- Supporting problem-solving on complex technical challenges across multiple domains
What You Could Bring
- 5+ years' experience in systems engineering, solutions architecture or a closely related technical role
- Demonstrated expertise designing scalable, enterprise-grade systems and infrastructure
- Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and hybrid environments
- Experience with containerization, orchestration and modern deployment practices
- Solid understanding of networking, security and data architecture principles
- Excellent communication skills; ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience
- Nice-to-have Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
- AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification or equivalent
- Experience in a specific domain such as financial services, healthcare or e-commerce
What Roles Of This Type Could Offer
- Opportunity to shape how organizations design and scale their technical foundations
- Exposure to complex, multi-domain systems challenges across diverse industries
- Collaboration with talented engineers and technical leaders in a hybrid working environment
- Scope to develop deeper expertise in emerging technologies and architectural patterns
- Potential progression toward senior or principal-level technical leadership roles
- Flexibility, remote working options and the chance to work on projects that span enterprise scale
About SThree
SThree is the global STEM workforce consultancy. We advise businesses, build expert teams and deliver project solutions to outpace tomorrow, together.
Across the UK, we connect talented specialists with cutting-edge opportunities across technology, engineering, life sciences and financial services supported by our offices in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow and Leeds.
Disclaimer
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