Senior Cloud Architect - Public Sector (UK)

IBM; Abbots Worthy; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Private medical

Dental cover

Optical cover

Employee Assistance Program

Group pension plan (salary sacrifice)

Life assurance

Sabbatical programs

Paternity leave

Maternity leave

Maternity returners scheme

Online shopping discounts

Job summary

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow is seeking a Senior Application Architect to shape, design and deliver scalable, secure solutions for mission-critical services. You will define architectures, modernisation strategies and cloud-native approaches while aligning with security and operational requirements.

You will lead design reviews, mentor engineers and collaborate with stakeholders to translate complex requirements into robust patterns and roadmaps, especially across AWS, containerised environments

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, design principles and engineering best practices.
• Experience modernising legacy applications and supporting cloud adoption initiatives.
• Experience with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes/EKS.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation and modern software delivery practices.
• Ability to communicate architecture decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience producing architecture deliverables such as High-Level Designs, solution designs and technical decision records.

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 (HLDs), technical roadmaps and architecture decision records.
• Work closely with engineering teams to ensure architecture principles are successfully implemented.
• Define integration approaches across applications, data platforms, APIs and third-party services.
• Collaborate with cloud and platform teams to ensure solutions are optimised for AWS and modern cloud environments.
• Promote best practice across software architecture, security, performance, observability and resilience.
• Support architecture governance through design reviews, peer reviews and architecture assurance activities.
• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps approaches.
• Mentor engineers, technical leads and junior architects.
• Contribute to recruitment and growth of the wider architecture and engineering community.

Skills

Java

Microservices architecture

RESTful APIs

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

IaC / Terraform

Cloud optimisation

Security

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow is seeking a Senior Application Architect to shape, design and deliver scalable, secure solutions for mission-critical services. You will define architectures, modernisation strategies and cloud-native approaches while aligning with security and operational requirements.

You will lead design reviews, mentor engineers and collaborate with stakeholders to translate complex requirements into robust patterns and roadmaps, especially across AWS, containerised environments