Technical Application Architect

As an IBM Consulting Architect, you will act as a trusted technical advisor to our clients, shaping architecture decisions that enable complex business and technology transformation. You will operate across the lifecycle - from early discovery and design through delivery and transition - providing architectural leadership to ensure solutions are coherent, fit-for-purpose, and aligned to client objectives.

You will work closely with clients, delivery teams, and partners, bringing industry insight and structured architectural thinking to complex environments. This role requires strong stakeholder engagement, the ability to operate in multi-supplier or 'rainbow' teams, and confidence guiding teams through ambiguity, trade-offs, and change.

Core Responsibilities (Common Across All Architect Roles)

• Build strong relationships with client stakeholders and act as a trusted advisor, providing clear architectural guidance aligned to business outcomes.
• Lead and influence architectural decision-making across teams, ensuring design integrity, quality, and consistency throughout delivery.
• Apply industry best practices, architectural patterns, and standards to shape pragmatic, sustainable solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers, architects, and delivery leads, supporting capability development within teams.
• Collaborate effectively across architecture, engineering, security, and platform communities to deliver cohesive outcomes.
• Support architectural governance activities, including design reviews, assurance, and risk management where appropriate.
• Operate effectively within consulting environments, balancing client needs, delivery constraints, and long-term sustainability.

In addition to the core responsibilities above, a Technical Consulting Architect will primarily focus on, * Define application and technical architectures aligned to modern development, integration, and delivery practices.

• Lead the design of application modernisation initiatives, including refactoring, re platforming, and cloud enablement.
• Provide hands on technical leadership to engineering teams, guiding design decisions and implementation approaches.
• Design and review application and integration patterns, APIs, and platform usage.
• Support non functional design considerations including performance, resilience, security, and scalability.
• Produce technical architecture artefacts, including HLDs, LLDs, interface designs, and technical standards.
• Collaborate with solution architects, platform teams, and security specialists to ensure cohesive outcomes.
• Support delivery assurance, troubleshooting, and technical risk resolution during implementation., IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Strong background as a Technical or Application Architect within complex delivery environments.
• Hands on experience with modern application stacks (e.g. Java, web technologies, mobile, APIs).
• Experience with cloud hosted application architectures and DevOps aligned delivery.
• Strong understanding of application integration and modern architectural patterns.
• Ability to communicate effectively with engineers, architects, and delivery leadership.
• Experience working within consulting or multi client delivery models.

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government's Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Background in application modernisation or large scale delivery programmes.
• Exposure to hybrid cloud or platform based architectures.
• Experience coaching or mentoring senior engineers and tech leads.
• Familiarity with quality engineering, automation, or non functional design practices., Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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