Senior Public Sector Cloud Architect - Modernisation & AWS

IBM; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Sabbatical programs

Paid parental leave

Extensive benefits package

Job summary

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow seeks a Senior Application Architect to shape, design and deliver scalable, secure solutions for mission-critical services. You’ll collaborate with stakeholders, engineering teams and fellow architects to translate requirements into architectures that are secure, resilient and maintainable.

You’ll lead modernisation efforts, define patterns for web apps, APIs and integrations, and drive cloud-native strategies on AWS.

Qualifications

• Experience designing enterprise-scale applications and distributed systems.
• Experience strong Java proficiency and modern application development frameworks.
• Experience designing microservices-based architectures and RESTful APIs.
• Experience working in 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.
• Active UK Security Clearance (or eligibility).

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.
• Produce architecture artefacts like HLDs and roadmaps.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to implement architecture principles.
• Define integration approaches across applications, data platforms, APIs and third-party services.
• Collaborate with cloud and platform teams to optimise for AWS and modern cloud environments.
• Promote best practices in security, performance, observability and resilience.
• Drive CI/CD, IaC and DevSecOps adoption.
• Mentor engineers, tech leads and junior architects.

Skills

Java

Microservices

RESTful APIs

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes/EKS

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Architecture governance

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

CloudWatch

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Job description

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow seeks a Senior Application Architect to shape, design and deliver scalable, secure solutions for mission-critical services. You’ll collaborate with stakeholders, engineering teams and fellow architects to translate requirements into architectures that are secure, resilient and maintainable.

You’ll lead modernisation efforts, define patterns for web apps, APIs and integrations, and drive cloud-native strategies on AWS.