Application Architect

In this Application Architect role, you shape the design and technical direction of the Risk Content Curation and Distribution Platform. You will translate requirements into robust, scalable cloud-native designs aligned with security and governance standards. Working with Solution Architects, Product Owners, and engineering teams, you ensure high quality across performance, resilience, and maintainability. You’ll contribute to architectural roadmaps and guide cross‑functional teams in a complex, regulated financial services context. This position offers impact by accelerating secure, observable, cost-conscious cloud solutions at scale.

• healthcare
• retirement planning
• paid volunteering days
• wellbeing initiatives

• Shape application architectures aligned with enterprise and solution standards
• Translate requirements into pragmatic architectural designs emphasizing reuse and good practices
• Promote architectural principles, security standards, and engineering best practices
• Review major technical design decisions within the application scope
• Ensure solutions meet quality attributes like performance, resilience, scalability, and maintainability
• Act as technical reference for development teams and collaborate with stakeholders on design trade-offs
• Guide cloud-native, AWS-hosted application design focusing on resilience, operability, and cost
• Incorporate observability, supportability, and deployment considerations early in design
• Contribute to architectural roadmaps and platform evolution; validate approaches with lightweight PoCs
• Support continuous improvement in architectural practices, patterns, and standards

• Experience as an application architect or senior engineer in distributed systems
• Strong knowledge of application design, API design, and data modeling
• Production experience with Java and/or Python
• Hands-on experience designing and operating AWS-based cloud-native applications
• Knowledge of containerised architectures, messaging patterns, and distributed data stores
• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code and modern CI/CD
• Solid grasp of security, authentication, and authorization concepts
• Clear communication to technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to influence technical decisions across teams and cultures
• Experience with observability, performance, scalability, and resilience engineering
• Exposure to event-driven architectures and asynchronous messaging at scale
• Experience optimising production cloud performance, resilience, and cost
• Familiarity with modern front-end architectures and integration patterns
• Experience in financial services, risk, compliance, or regulated environments is desirable but not essential

• strong communication
• cross-team collaboration
• influence without authority
• Java
• Python
• AWS