Technical Architect

• Design end-to-end architectures for cloud-native services built on AWS
• Define and document high-level and detailed designs, architectural patterns, and technical specifications
• Architect Java-based services using frameworks such as Spring / Spring Boot
• Create robust, well-governed API architectures (RESTful, event-driven, synchronous/asynchronous)
• Lead the design of distributed microservices, ensuring scalability, resilience, observability, and maintainability
• Apply schema-driven design principles to ensure consistent and reusable domain models
• Select and integrate AWS services based on architectural requirements
• Ensure cloud solutions meet organisational standards for cost, performance, security, and operational readiness
• Promote Infrastructure-as-Code practices using Terraform / CloudFormation
• Guide the adoption of serverless and container-based patterns where appropriate
• Provide technical leadership to engineers, developers, DevOps, and platform teams
• Lead architecture reviews, design assurance, and technical direction across multiple teams or projects
• Define and maintain engineering and architectural standards, patterns, and best practices
• Conduct option evaluations, risk assessments, and make informed technology recommendations
• Design API ecosystems including versioning, discovery, governance, throttling, and security
• Define schemas, data contracts, and integration patterns for internal and external systems
• Promote consistent schema models across teams to enable loose coupling and robust interoperability
• Work closely with product managers, delivery managers, business analysts, and engineering leads to translate requirements into technical designs
• Communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Act as a key point of contact for architectural decision-making
• Ensure secure-by-design principles across all solutions
• Support threat modelling, risk assessments, and compliance with security and data protection requirements
• Drive non-functional requirement definition (performance, scalability, availability, resilience)
• Support test strategy and quality engineering practices

Technologies:

• API
• AWS
• Lambda
• Architect
• ArchiMate
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• CloudWatch
• DevOps
• Docker
• ELK
• Grafana
• Support
• JSON
• JVM
• Java
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• OpenAPI
• OpenTelemetry
• REST
• Security
• Serverless
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• TOGAF
• Terraform
• microservices
• EC2, We are seeking a Technical Architect to join our team, providing end-to-end technical leadership across the design, architecture, and delivery of modern cloud-based systems. Our hybrid working environment allows for two days a week onsite. You will work closely with engineering teams, product owners, and delivery leads to define technical direction, set standards, and ensure high-quality, scalable, and resilient solutions that align with our organizational goals. We offer a collaborative atmosphere where your expertise can directly influence our cloud strategy and architectural decisions.

• Strong experience as a Technical Architect, Solutions Architect, or Senior Engineer with architecture responsibilities
• Proven track record designing cloud-based applications on AWS
• Strong hands-on background in Java, Spring Boot, and JVM-based service architectures
• Deep experience with APIs (REST, event-driven, messaging), microservices, and distributed system design
• Strong understanding of schema-driven design, using tools such as JSON Schema, OpenAPI, or AsyncAPI
• Solid understanding of cloud security, identity and access management, and operational best practices
• Experience working with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence technical decisions
• AWS certification (Architect Associate / Professional) - desirable
• Experience with API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, or Kubernetes-based workloads - desirable
• Experience with event-driven architecture (SNS/SQS, Kinesis, Kafka) - desirable
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps tooling, and automated delivery - desirable
• Experience with containerisation (Docker, ECS/EKS) - desirable
• Familiarity with architectural frameworks (C4 model, ArchiMate, TOGAF) - desirable
• Knowledge of observability tooling (CloudWatch, ELK, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) - desirable