Lead AI-Driven Application Architect

Fourth; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holidays

Flexible working

Hybrid working environments

Laptop provided

Healthcare expense tools

Certification growth

Annual meet ups

Pension & life insurance

Cycle to work

On-demand pay

Job summary

Fourth is seeking an Application Architect to shape the architecture of strategic initiatives. You will be embedded in delivery teams, providing hands-on leadership to design, build, and evolve scalable software solutions.

You will apply Fourth's architecture standards while contributing to evolution through practical delivery, collaborating with engineers, leads, and architects to balance quality with pragmatic delivery.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in application/software architecture and engineering.
• Knowledge of design patterns and architectural styles (microservices, event-driven, layered).
• Experience with modern frameworks and technologies.
• Experience with API design and distributed systems architecture.
• Strong collaboration and communication to document complex solutions.
• Ability to lead projects and teams in fast-paced environments.
• Proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages.
• Solid understanding of the SDLC.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure) and their services.
• Awareness of AI tools and their application in development.

Responsibilities

• Deliver architecture for strategic projects ensuring scalability, maintainability, security, and alignment with architectural direction.
• Provide hands-on architectural leadership within delivery teams.
• Evolve architecture standards, patterns, and engineering principles via practical delivery.
• Produce architectural designs, decision records, and documentation for long-term maintainability.
• Participate in reviews, providing feedback and ensuring consistency with principles.
• Collaborate with business, product, engineering, and architects to translate requirements into solutions.
• Own architectural direction of initiatives balancing business and technical goals.
• Identify risks and debt, proposing remediation plans.
• Design and evolve AI-enabled engineering practices and delivery pipelines.
• Prototype, validate, and deliver reference implementations and production-quality software using AI tools.
• Research and recommend new technologies and approaches to improve value.
• Champion AI adoption to enhance capabilities and productivity.
• Share knowledge and mentor engineers and leads.

Skills

Application architecture

Microservices

Distributed systems

API design

Azure cloud

AI in software

Leadership

Programming languages

Tools

Azure

Job description

Fourth is seeking an Application Architect to shape the architecture of strategic initiatives. You will be embedded in delivery teams, providing hands-on leadership to design, build, and evolve scalable software solutions.

You will apply Fourth's architecture standards while contributing to evolution through practical delivery, collaborating with engineers, leads, and architects to balance quality with pragmatic delivery.