Senior Public Sector Cloud Architect (AWS, Microservices)

IBM; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Sabbatical programs

Paid parental leave

Maternity/paternity leave

Job summary

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow seeks a Senior Application Architect to shape and deliver modern, scalable architectures across complex services. You will translate requirements into secure, resilient designs and work with stakeholders to implement cloud-native strategies.

You will influence decisions across applications, integrations and cloud platforms, mentoring engineers and contributing to governance and modern engineering practices.

Qualifications

• Experience designing enterprise-scale applications and distributed systems.
• Experience with AWS and cloud-native architectures.
• Ability to translate business requirements into secure, scalable architectures.
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading architecture governance.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, secure and resilient architectures for enterprise systems.
• Define patterns for web apps, APIs, integrations and cloud-native services.
• Lead modernisation initiatives and migrate legacy applications.
• Produce architecture artefacts: HLDs, roadmaps and decision records.
• Collaborate with engineering to implement architecture principles.

Skills

Java

Microservices

RESTful APIs

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Terraform/CloudFormation

Observability tools

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes/EKS

Terraform

CloudFormation

CloudWatch

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Job description

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow seeks a Senior Application Architect to shape and deliver modern, scalable architectures across complex services. You will translate requirements into secure, resilient designs and work with stakeholders to implement cloud-native strategies.

You will influence decisions across applications, integrations and cloud platforms, mentoring engineers and contributing to governance and modern engineering practices.