Java Architect - Public Sector

IBM; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training opportunities

Internal recognition programs

Flexible working approaches

25 days holiday

Private medical insurance

Job summary

A leading technology firm is seeking an IT Architect to design and implement hybrid cloud application modernization projects for Public Sector clients in the UK. The role involves providing technical leadership for cloud migrations, building strong client relationships, and delivering tailored innovative solutions. Candidates should have a Bachelor’s Degree and familiarity with AWS, Azure, and microservice architectures. This position offers extensive training and opportunities for career advancement.

Qualifications

• Familiar with AWS and Azure.
• Experience with Microservice architectures and integration technologies.
• Broad experience in designing technical architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of hybrid cloud application modernization projects.
• Provide architectural and engineering support to customers.
• Build strong relationships with clients, acting as a trusted advisor.

Skills

AWS

Azure

Microservice architectures

Cloud integration technologies

Agile delivery methods

Enterprise system design

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Java

JavaScript frameworks (Spring Boot, React, Angular)

Kubernetes

Oracle

Postgres

Job description

Overview

At IBM CIC, we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.

A career in IBM CIC means you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change for our clients, using some of the latest technology platforms.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You’ll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself, focusing on skills in demand in an ever changing market. You’ll be working with diverse teams, coming up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, who may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

We Offer

• Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
• Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
• Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
• Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
• A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
• Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
• Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.

Your Role And Responsibilities

We are seeking IT Architects to lead the design and implementation of hybrid cloud application modernisation projects with our Public Sector clients. You will provide technical leadership for migrating existing applications to cloud and for building new cloud native solutions.

Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Providing, architectural, consultative and engineering support for our customers’ journeys to the cloud
• Bringing industry insight to deliver innovative solutions, that are tailored to the specific needs of our customers
• Leadership for transformations of enterprise complex projects, from system requirements through delivery and production/deployment, providing architectural and hands-on technical leadership to ensure overall solution integrity
• Building strong relationships with our clients and acting as a trusted advisor

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• You will be familiar with AWS or/and Azure and be comfortable with Microservice architectures and a range of cloud, devops and integration technologies. You will have worked on hybrid cloud complex systems integration projects designing elements of the target cloud solution and its integration with existing on-premise applications.
• You will be comfortable working in ‘rainbow’ teams with multiple different suppliers or as part of a wholly IBM team. Your background is likely to be a mix of large-scale waterfall deliveries and more agile projects. You will be a hands-on professional with a proven track-record in keeping your skills up to date, ideally evidenced through recognized certifications.
• Broad experience designing & delivering technical architectures (application, infrastructure, integration, security & data)
• Public cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, Kubernetes etc.)
• Strong understanding & delivery experience of cloud native architectures
• Extensive experience using agile delivery methods, i.e. Scrum
• Good understanding of scaled agile delivery methods, i.e. SAFe or LeSS

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Good knowledge of system design & delivery
• Java & JavaScript frameworks e.g. Spring Boot, React, Angular, J2EE
• Enterprise integration technologies (Kafka, MQ, IBM Streams, ESBs, ETL etc)
• Enterprise level persistence technologies (Oracle, Postgres, DB2, NoSQL, Redis, Graph etc.)
• Estimation experience (top down, bottom up, planning poker etc.)
• Experienced in architectural languages or frameworks e.g. UML, Zachman, TOGAF
• Understanding of Automation in the development, testing and operations context.