Senior Cloud Architect – Public Sector

IBM Computing; Leicester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Private medical

Maternity/paternity leave

Job summary

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Application Architect to shape and deliver scalable, secure software solutions for critical public and private sector programs.

You will collaborate with stakeholders and engineering teams to define architectures, drive modernization, and implement cloud-native patterns across AWS, microservices, and CI/CD, ensuring resilience and governance.

Qualifications

• Experience designing enterprise-scale applications and distributed systems.
• Strong background in Java and modern application development frameworks.
• Experience designing microservices-based architectures and RESTful APIs.
• Experience working within cloud environments, ideally AWS.
• Strong understanding of software architecture patterns and engineering best practices.
• Experience modernising legacy applications and supporting cloud adoption initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, secure and resilient application architectures aligned to business and user requirements.
• Define architecture patterns for web applications, APIs, integrations and cloud-native services.
• Lead application modernisation initiatives, including migration of legacy applications and adoption of modern engineering practices.
• Produce and maintain architecture artefacts including High-Level Designs, technical roadmaps and architecture decision records.
• Work closely with engineering teams to ensure architecture principles are implemented.
• Define integration approaches across applications, data platforms, APIs and third-party services.
• Collaborate with cloud and platform teams to optimise solutions for AWS and cloud environments.
• Promote best practices across software architecture, security, performance, observability and resilience.
• Support architecture governance through design reviews and architecture assurance activities.
• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices including CI/CD, IaC and DevSecOps.
• Mentor engineers, technical leads and junior architects.
• Contribute to recruitment and growth of the wider architecture and engineering community.

Skills

Java

RESTful APIs

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes/EKS

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud security

Architecture patterns

Communication

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

CloudWatch

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Job description

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Application Architect to shape and deliver scalable, secure software solutions for critical public and private sector programs.

You will collaborate with stakeholders and engineering teams to define architectures, drive modernization, and implement cloud-native patterns across AWS, microservices, and CI/CD, ensuring resilience and governance.