Senior Cloud Architect for UK Public Sector

IBM; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Private medical cover

Dental & optical cover

Employee Assistance Program

Group pension plan

Maternity/paternity support

Job summary

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow is seeking a Senior Application Architect to shape, design and deliver modern, scalable and secure solutions supporting critical services. You will define architectures, modernisation strategies and cloud-native patterns, collaborating with stakeholders and engineering teams to ensure secure, resilient outcomes.

You’ll influence decisions across applications, data platforms and cloud environments, mentoring engineers and contributing to recruitment and growth within

Qualifications

• Experience designing enterprise-scale architectures and distributed systems.
• Strong background in Java and modern frameworks.
• Experience designing microservices-based architectures and RESTful APIs.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, secure and resilient architectures aligned to business needs.
• Define architecture patterns for web apps, APIs, integrations and cloud-native services.
• Lead application modernisation including migration of legacy apps.
• Produce High-Level Designs (HLDs) and architecture decision records.

Skills

Architectural design

Java

Microservices

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

CloudWatch

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Job description

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow is seeking a Senior Application Architect to shape, design and deliver modern, scalable and secure solutions supporting critical services. You will define architectures, modernisation strategies and cloud-native patterns, collaborating with stakeholders and engineering teams to ensure secure, resilient outcomes.

You’ll influence decisions across applications, data platforms and cloud environments, mentoring engineers and contributing to recruitment and growth within