Application Architect

Avance Consulting; West of England; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Avance Consulting is seeking an experienced enterprise architect to define application architecture and modernization roadmaps for banking platforms. You will design scalable, secure, cloud-native solutions on GCP and lead API-led integration, microservices, and event-driven initiatives.

In this role, you will collaborate with business, solution, data, and infrastructure teams to deliver end-to-end architecture solutions while ensuring alignment with security, performance, availability, and

Qualifications

• Experience defining application architecture and modernization roadmaps for banking platforms.
• Design scalable, secure, cloud-native applications on Google Cloud Platform.
• Lead modernization, API-led integration, microservices, and event-driven architecture initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture roadmaps for banking platforms.
• Design cloud-native apps on GCP.
• Lead API-led integration, microservices, and event-driven architecture initiatives.
• Collaborate with business, solution, data, and infrastructure teams to deliver end-to-end architecture solutions.
• Ensure alignment with security, performance, availability, and compliance requirements.

Skills

GCP

Microservices

APIs

Event-Driven Architecture

Java/.NET

Kubernetes/GKE

Integration Patterns

Security

HA/DR

Application Modernization

Banking Domain

Tools

Kubernetes/GKE

Job description

• Define application architecture, modernization roadmaps, and target-state solutions for banking platforms.
• Design scalable, secure, resilient, and cloud-native applications on GCP.
• Lead application modernization, API-led integration, microservices, and event-driven architecture initiatives.
• Collaborate with business, solution, data, and infrastructure teams to deliver end-to-end architecture solutions.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise standards, security, performance, availability, and compliance requirements.
• Key Skills: GCP, Microservices, APIs, Event-Driven Architecture, Java/.NET, Kubernetes/GKE, Integration Patterns, Security, HA/DR, Application Modernization, and Banking Domain.
• Preferred: Experience in legacy application modernization, DB2-integrated applications, and cloud migration programs in Banking.