Application Architect, Scotland

Axiom Software Solutions; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software solutions firm based in Glasgow is seeking an experienced Application Architect to design and deliver innovative solutions in both cloud and on-prem environments. The role involves leading a varied team, driving technical strategy, and ensuring compliance with security and data management standards. The ideal candidate will possess strong experience in Java, microservices, and integration technologies, along with certifications in relevant areas such as TOGAF or AWS. Good communication and leadership skills are essential for success in this role.

Qualifications

• Proven expertise in designing complex solutions for both on-premise and cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience with integration technologies and data management solutions.
• Understanding of security standards and GDPR compliance.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a diverse team of developers.
• Design hybrid solutions with robust testing and documentation.
• Drive the procurement process for technical solutions.

Skills

Technical leadership

Cloud technologies

Agile methodologies

Integration technologies

Data management

Security standards

Java programming

Microservices architecture

API Design

Education

Certification in TOGAF, AWS Solution Architect

Tools

Oracle

MongoDB

RabbitMQ

Talend

Job description

Application Architect

Evidence of strong process, technical and team leadership skills, with a passion for delivering leading edge designs and inspiring a culture of technical excellence and innovative solution design.

Experience of navigating the complex landscapes of technologies, 3rd party suppliers (driving the procurement process), internal and cross-government (or similarly complex) teams.

Management delivery of complex service solutions within time, cost and quality targets, ensuring solutions are robust, resilient, and appropriately implemented, tested and documented.

Work in digital technologies and approaches including cloud (SaaS / PaaS / IaaS / cloud native), common front and back end technologies, software defined infrastructure, continuous delivery and DevOps. AWS cloud experience preferable.

Design hybrid solution and migration path for on-prem / cloud services.

Experience of owning and contributing to the technical roadmap and strategy.

Experience in anticipating and advising on future technology changes that present opportunities for the application or service.

Ability to communicate clearly in a language which meets the needs of different users / stakeholders through selecting the appropriate channels formats and managing expectations whilst adapting to stakeholders reactions with flexibility.

Identifying process improvements and defining best practice, inspiring teams to follow it.

Understanding of Lean, Agile and DevOps principles

Mentor team of varied experience levels

Certification preferably in TOGAF, Oracle, AWS Solution Architect Associate / Professional or similar

Essential Skills :

SME Expertise in varied Architecture Landscape touch points of both On-Prem Cloud, Hybrid, varied Programming Languages, Infrastructure(DR), Security, CI / CD, Scalability , Resilience and Performance

Expertise in Relational / Oracle, NoSQL Database concepts

Experience in Oracle PL / SQL, SQL Developer, Toad DW DBA knowledge, gap analysis, performance analysis and proposing solutions based on varied product evaluations in current market

Strong Architectural hands‑on experience in Oracle, MongoDB DynamoDB

Ability to evaluate, run POC and suggest to Business Tech stakeholders of products fit for purpose addressing the performance other bottlenecks in BAU system

Strong background in Integration technologies and platforms such as Mulesoft

Expertise in Integration patterns involving files (using FTP, SFTP, MoveIT), MQ, CDC, Message Bus, Hub Spoke, Pub / Sub

Experience in implementation of Security standards for Data in Transit Rest such as TLS / SSL, Data Encryption

Knowledge in MQ AMQ concepts such as RabbitMQ Oracle MQ

Expertise Knowledge in Data Management workflow integration such as Data Lake, ETL , Data Ingestion, Sharding, Data Stream, Data Catalogue, Data Cleansing, Data Analytics, Batch, Scheduling

Implementation knowledge on principles such as ACID, SOLID, OWASP

Knowledge on UK GDPR, PII, PCI‑DSS data standards

Implementation of designs related to Batch processing patterns involving Talend, Databricks, Snowflake or similar

Experience of running GDPR related projects involving Data Sourcing, Validations, Integration, Data Disposition, Auditing Reporting

Ability to treat Data as an Asset and Architect provide Solutions aligned to it Strong working knowledge in Java 8+ with Clean Architecture, Mockito, Java Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Apache Camel

needs to possess an expert depth and breadth of knowledge regarding multiple technologies and their inter‑relationships, e.g. : Web applications, Java Oracle.

Extensive experience working in Java, microservice architecture, containerisation, enterprise integration patterns, data storage in a highly available, distributed products.

Cloud native delivery skills following open standards in Containers As a Service / PaaS / IaaS, AWS CDK, Fargate, Secrets manager, Lambda, ECS, EKS, S3, MongoDB Atlassian, Serverless Functions and data insight solutions.

Experience in designing systems for integration and re‑use, using frameworks / standards, technologies and design patterns such as API Gateways, REST, Message Brokers and token‑based security.

Expertise in Auth Auth principles tools such as SAML, OpenID, OAuth, JWT, OKTA, AWS Cognito, Hashicorp Vault

Designing solution and leading digital delivery teams to using Agile and DevOps methodologies to ensure automation and delivery pipelines flowing from development, testing, infrastructure as code to automated deployment

A demonstrable record of designing solutions to key non‑functional requirements including cyber / security policies, resilience, logging, errors and scalability abiding SLA

Experience in creating guiding in Architecture Artefacts such as Tech / Arch Roadmap / Strategy, High Level Design, LLD, Estimation, Product Evaluation Matrix, Gap Analysis, Performance Matrix

Enterprise Architecture knowledge and practical exposure to TOGAF or Zachman

CI / CD, Oracle, PL / SQL,