Lead Cloud-Native Application Architect

Bestway Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension

22 days annual leave + bank holidays

Onsite parking

Life assurance

Job summary

Bestway Group in the United Kingdom is seeking a hands-on Lead Application Architect to own application-level design, define engineering standards, and drive AI-assisted development across the team.

You will sit between Solution Architects and the development team, turning HLDs into clear Low-Level Designs and ensuring code is secure, maintainable and aligned with ADRs, CI/CD and cloud-native practices on Azure Container Apps.

Qualifications

• Significant production experience in Java and Spring Boot.
• Strong background in microservices and component/code architecture.
• Experience documenting designs using ADRs and C4/LLD.
• Familiarity with Azure cloud services and containerisation.

Responsibilities

• Application & low-level design: translate HLDs into LLDs for implementations.
• Architecture governance: ADRs, design reviews, and traceable decisions.
• Engineering standards: define Java coding standards and CI quality gates.
• AI-assisted development: guide use of AI tools with security considerations.
• Cloud-native modernisation: move legacy apps to Azure Container Apps.
• Mentorship: coach developers through reviews and guidance.
• Quality: embed automated testing (unit/integration/contract) in pipelines.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

Architectural documentation

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

Docker

GitHub Actions

CI/CD tooling

Azure Container Apps

Job description

Bestway Group in the United Kingdom is seeking a hands-on Lead Application Architect to own application-level design, define engineering standards, and drive AI-assisted development across the team.

You will sit between Solution Architects and the development team, turning HLDs into clear Low-Level Designs and ensuring code is secure, maintainable and aligned with ADRs, CI/CD and cloud-native practices on Azure Container Apps.