Senior Technical Architect – Cloud, Security & Modernisation

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

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical

Dental cover

Pension plan

Job summary

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow is seeking a Senior Application Architect to shape, design and deliver scalable, secure solutions supporting complex and mission-critical services. You will work with stakeholders, engineering teams and fellow architects to define architectures, modernisation strategies and cloud-native solutions.

You will influence decisions across applications, integrations and cloud platforms, balancing technical excellence with security and business needs.

Qualifications

• Experience designing enterprise-scale applications and distributed systems.
• Strong background in Java and modern application development frameworks.
• Experience with microservices-based architectures and RESTful APIs.
• Experience working within cloud environments, ideally AWS.

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 implemented.
• Define integration approaches across applications, data platforms, APIs and third-party services.
• Collaborate with cloud and platform teams to optimise solutions for AWS and modern cloud environments.
• Promote best practices across software architecture, security, performance, observability and resilience.
• Support architecture governance through design reviews and architecture assurance activities.
• Drive adoption of 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.
• Active UK Security Clearance.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Java/Spring

Microservices

REST APIs

CI/CD

Docker/Kubernetes

Security

Stakeholder comms

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Software Eng

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

CloudFormation

Grafana/Prometheus

Job description

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow is seeking a Senior Application Architect to shape, design and deliver scalable, secure solutions supporting complex and mission-critical services. You will work with stakeholders, engineering teams and fellow architects to define architectures, modernisation strategies and cloud-native solutions.

You will influence decisions across applications, integrations and cloud platforms, balancing technical excellence with security and business needs.