Senior Cloud & Security Architect for Public Sector

IBM; Hursley; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Paternity leave

Private medical

Job summary

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow is seeking a Senior Application Architect to shape, design and deliver modern, scalable and secure cloud-native solutions for complex and mission-critical services. You’ll work with stakeholders, engineering teams and fellow architects to define architectures that are secure and maintainable.

You’ll influence decisions across applications, integrations and cloud platforms, balancing technical excellence with security and business requirements.

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 working 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 HLDs, 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

Enterprise-scale design

Java

Frameworks

Microservices

REST APIs

AWS

Software architecture

Legacy modernization

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Communication

Architecture deliverables

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

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 cloud-native solutions for complex and mission-critical services. You’ll work with stakeholders, engineering teams and fellow architects to define architectures that are secure and maintainable.

You’ll influence decisions across applications, integrations and cloud platforms, balancing technical excellence with security and business requirements.