Technical Architect AWS Java

Client Server; Manchester; Remote; GBP 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing tech company is seeking a Technical Architect (AWS Java) to lead the architecture of their core insights platform. The ideal candidate will have strong Java skills, experience architecting large scale AWS systems, and a solid understanding of microservices architecture. This role includes a competitive package up to £100k and offers remote work flexibility.

Benefits

Salary to £100k

Bonus

Pension

Life Assurance

Private Medical Care

Remote working

Qualifications

• Strong experience architecting large scale systems on AWS.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services (ECS, EKS, EC2, etc.).
• Strong Java coding skills with knowledge of supporting languages.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the end-to-end architecture for core insights platform.
• Design scalable AWS architectures for mission-critical workloads.
• Lead definition of infrastructure as code and observability frameworks.

Skills

AWS architecture experience

Java coding skills

Microservices architecture

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipeline design

Security architecture

Asynchronous messaging

Agile/Scrum experience

Tools

Terraform

Kafka

AWS services (ECS, EKS, etc.)

Job description

Technical Architect (AWS Java) Remote UK to £100k

Are you a hands‑on Technical Architect with strong Java coding skills and experience architecting and operating large scale systems on AWS?

You could be progressing your career as a Technical Architect at a growing tech company that provide a range of IoT and Data solutions for the Emergency Services.

As the Technical Architect you'll take ownership and drive the end‑to‑end architecture for the core insights platform, across infrastructure, data, security and application layers. You'll design and implement scalable, cost effective AWS architectures that support high‑throughput, mission critical IoT and data workloads, governing platform standards, documentation and best practices across multiple engineering teams.

Your role will also encompass leading the definition and enforcement of infrastructure as code (IaC), observability and automation frameworks and integration of streaming and messaging solutions such as Kafka, SQS or SNS for data ingestion and event‑driven processing. You'll collaborate with development, DevOps and data engineering on various initiatives and champion security and compliance within the platform to adhere to GDPR, ISO27001 and data governance frameworks.

Location / WFH

There's a remote first policy, you could be based anywhere in the UK but must be British citizen or hold the right to work in the UK.

About you

• You have strong experience of architecting and operating large scale systems on AWS, ideally within high‑availability or regulated environments
• You have a strong knowledge of core AWS services (ECS / EKS, EC2, S3, RDS / Aurora, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, Lambda, Terraform / CloudFormation)
• You have strong Java coding skills and a working knowledge of other languages (Python, Go, etc) for supporting services and automation
• You have a strong understanding of microservices architecture, event‑driven design and integration patterns
• You have experience of designing and managing containerised environments
• You have experience with CI / CD pipeline design using GitHub Actions and a good working knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), observability and monitoring tools
• You have a good knowledge of security architecture, identity management and network segmentation in cloud environments
• You have a good understanding of data flows, APIs and asynchronous messaging (Kafka, SQS, SNS)
• You're collaborative and pragmatic with experience of managing or leading technical delivery teams using Agile / Scrum framework

What’s in it for you

As a Technical Architect you'll receive a competitive package :

• Salary to £100k
• Bonus
• Pension
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical Care
• Remote working

Apply now to find out more about this Technical Architect (AWS Java) opportunity.

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