Senior Application Architect, Java, AWS

Jobtailor; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in the United Kingdom seeks an experienced Solution Architect to lead engineering teams in building scalable, secure financial services platforms like World-Check One. You will design cloud infrastructure, own architecture decisions, and drive cost optimisation and governance across multiple services.

You will collaborate with Product Owners and Business Analysts, translate complex technical issues for diverse audiences, and mentor junior architects while developing architectural

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a software engineer.
• Experience architecting highly scalable and efficient distributed systems using open source tools.
• Consistent track record delivering Application and Cloud Solution Architectures.
• Extensive experience selecting and implementing cloud services, primarily AWS.
• Detailed understanding of messaging services for modern application architecture.
• In-depth experience with cloud patterns, multi-tenancy, sharding, priority queue, throttling, sidecar and CAP theorem.
• Understanding of polyglot persistence and hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL solutions.
• Experience with MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Elasticsearch and other relational databases.
• In-depth understanding of HTTP and REST API design, management, and consumption.
• Very strong Java skills and experience with Python, Spring Boot, Node.js and JavaScript.
• Understanding of use of AI as a tool and within applications.
• Experience implementing Enterprise Integration Patterns
• Experience with authentication methods such as SAML, OIDC or Auth2
• Extensive experience designing and implementing scalable, extensible, performant, secure and highly available systems
• Experience presenting to senior leadership and working across technical and business teams
• Experience working with externally sourced engineers and architects
• Awareness of GDPR and ISO standards
• Understanding of risk management, customer and third-party risk, and the regulatory marketplace
• Understanding of financial markets, banking and news
• Robust analytical, interpersonal, negotiating and influencing skills
• Ability to manage numerous projects with conflicting priorities
• Ability to operate across organisational boundaries and influence vendors and technology staff

Responsibilities

• Work with the Solution Architect of World-Check One – Risk Engineering to shape technical strategy.
• Develop critical financial services including World-Check One, Screening and Due Diligence.
• Design software solutions from the ground up and make high-level architectural decisions.
• Direct engineering teams in building final products.
• Build logical, physical, implementation and process solution architecture designs.
• Design cloud infrastructure and detailed application architecture.
• Optimise cloud solution costs through waste reduction, automated cost management and autoscaling.
• Support DevOps teams with CI/CD automation.
• Support application development teams with governance, privacy gates, compliance and risk analysis.
• Lead production issue root-cause analysis and resolution.
• Work with Product Owners and Business Analysts on solution concepts, costs and timescales.
• Own implementation of quality-of-service requirements for availability, recovery, reusability, performance, maintainability, security, capacity and compatibility.
• Produce domain/business logic, interoperability, API, messaging, data model and physical architecture designs.
• Pair with Application Architects and Technical Leads and develop their design skills.
• Produce proof of concepts for Technical Leads and development teams.
• Contribute to architecture communities of practice and councils and develop architectural standards.
• Identify technology and partnership opportunities that can shift the business and realise them with business partners.
• Provide authority and leadership on sophisticated technical matters and solution architecture strategy.
• Translate technical issues for non-technical audiences and articulate architecture vision and direction.
• Deliver technical training, presentations and white papers to internal and external audiences

Skills

AWS Cloud

Application Architecture

Java & Python

Messaging Services

Risk & Compliance

Tools

MySQL

Postgres

MongoDB

Elasticsearch

SAML/OIDC/Auth2

Job description

• Work with the Solution Architect of World-Check One – Risk Engineering
• Develop critical financial services including World-Check One, Screening and Due Diligence
• Design software solutions from the ground up and make high-level architectural decisions
• Direct engineering teams in building final products
• Build logical, physical, implementation and process solution architecture designs
• Design cloud infrastructure and detailed application architecture
• Optimise cloud solution costs through waste reduction, automated cost management and autoscaling
• Support DevOps teams with CI/CD automation
• Support application development teams with governance, privacy gates, compliance and risk analysis
• Lead production issue root-cause analysis and resolution
• Work with Product Owners and Business Analysts on solution concepts, costs and timescales
• Own implementation of quality-of-service requirements for availability, recovery, reusability, performance, maintainability, security, capacity and compatibility
• Produce domain/business logic, interoperability, API, messaging, data model and physical architecture designs
• Pair with Application Architects and Technical Leads and develop their design skills
• Produce proof of concepts for Technical Leads and development teams
• Contribute to architecture communities of practice and councils and develop architectural standards
• Identify technology and partnership opportunities that can shift the business and realise them with business partners
• Provide authority and leadership on sophisticated technical matters and solution architecture strategy
• Translate technical issues for non-technical audiences and articulate architecture vision and direction
• Deliver technical training, presentations and white papers to internal and external audiences

Requirements

• Significant experience as a software engineer
• Experience architecting highly scalable and efficient distributed systems using open source tools
• Consistent track record delivering Application and Cloud Solution Architectures
• Extensive experience selecting and implementing cloud services, primarily AWS
• Detailed understanding of messaging services for modern application architecture
• In-depth experience with cloud patterns, multi-tenancy, sharding, priority queue, throttling, sidecar and CAP theorem
• Understanding of polyglot persistence and hands‑on experience with SQL and NoSQL solutions
• Experience with MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Elasticsearch and other relational databases
• In-depth understanding of HTTP and REST API design, management, and consumption
• Very strong Java skills and experience with Python, Spring Boot, Node.js and JavaScript
• Understanding of use of AI as a tool and within applications
• Experience implementing Enterprise Integration Patterns
• Experience with authentication methods such as SAML, OIDC or Auth2
• Extensive experience designing and implementing scalable, extensible, performant, secure and highly available systems
• Experience presenting to senior leadership and working across technical and business teams
• Experience working with externally sourced engineers and architects
• Awareness of GDPR and ISO standards
• Understanding of risk management, customer and third-party risk, and the regulatory marketplace
• Understanding of financial markets, banking and news
• Robust analytical, interpersonal, negotiating and influencing skills
• Ability to manage numerous projects with conflicting priorities
• Ability to operate across organisational boundaries and influence vendors and technology staff

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in designing and implementing scalable cloud solutions, particularly with AWS, while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards such as GDPR and ISO. Possesses strong leadership skills to guide engineering teams and communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• AWS Cloud Services Implementation
• Application Architecture Design
• Java and Python Development
• Messaging Services Understanding
• Risk Management and Compliance

Hard Skills

• Software Engineering
• Cloud Solution Architecture
• SQL and NoSQL Databases
• REST API Design
• Enterprise Integration Patterns

Soft Skills

• Analytical Skills
• Interpersonal Skills
• Negotiating Skills
• Influencing Skills
• Project Management

Industry Keywords

• Financial Services
• Risk Engineering
• GDPR
• ISO Standards
• Financial Markets
• Banking
• Due Diligence
• Compliance
• Third-Party Risk
• Regulatory Marketplace

  Tools & Technologies

  • MySQL
  • Postgres
  • MongoDB
  • Elasticsearch
  • SAML
  • OIDC
  • Auth2
  • CI/CD Automation
  • Cloud Infrastructure Design
  • Technical Training