Senior Enterprise Platform & API Architect — Remote (UK Clearance)

Blue Astral Consulting; England; Remote; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Astral Consulting seeks a Senior Enterprise Platform and Integration Architect to act as a strategic advisor, shaping secure composable enterprise platforms and guiding domain teams, platform engineers, and executives on best practices.

You will define target state blueprints, advise on secure API management, event data, and domain capabilities while mentoring delivery teams and challenging vendors to deliver resilient, vendor-agnostic solutions across on-premises and cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Ten or more years in senior IT advisory, platform or enterprise architecture, steering complex multi vendor cloud transformations.
• Deep practical mastery of secure API gateways, event driven streaming and enterprise event schema governance across distributed systems.
• Extensive consulting experience influencing senior leadership, mentoring stream aligned teams and applying composable platform principles.
• A proven track record challenging third party deliverables and driving technical accountability through procurement.
• A strong foundation in multi cloud architecture, CI/CD security pipelines, container security, identity federation and fine grained access control.
• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field, with TOGAF or cloud architecture certifications an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Secure API and event data architecture. Set enterprise standards for API first integration and secure API gateways.
• Architect event driven blueprints covering event brokers, schema registries, pub/sub routing and governance across domains.
• Guide domain teams on decomposing legacy systems into modular capabilities and domain services; maintain reference architectures and developer portals.
• Define guardrails for combining microservices, automation engines and low code/pro-code composition into unified experiences.
• Set target state cloud strategy across SaaS, PaaS and IaaS; guide infrastructure as code, container orchestration governance, zero trust boundaries and RBAC in CI/CD pipelines.

Job description

Blue Astral Consulting seeks a Senior Enterprise Platform and Integration Architect to act as a strategic advisor, shaping secure composable enterprise platforms and guiding domain teams, platform engineers, and executives on best practices.

You will define target state blueprints, advise on secure API management, event data, and domain capabilities while mentoring delivery teams and challenging vendors to deliver resilient, vendor-agnostic solutions across on-premises and cloud environments.