Senior Cloud & Microservices Architect – Public Sector

IBM; Leicester Forest East; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Sabbatical program

Paid paternity leave

Maternity leave

Private medical

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 translate complex requirements into architectures, drive modernisation, and collaborate with stakeholders and delivery teams to ensure architectural standards are followed.

You will lead patterns for web apps, APIs and cloud-native services, mentor engineers, and contribute to governance and recruitment.

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.
• Experience with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes/EKS.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation and modern software delivery practices.

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

REST APIs

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Mentoring

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

CloudWatch

Prometheus

Grafana

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 translate complex requirements into architectures, drive modernisation, and collaborate with stakeholders and delivery teams to ensure architectural standards are followed.

You will lead patterns for web apps, APIs and cloud-native services, mentor engineers, and contribute to governance and recruitment.