Application Architect

Overview

Application Architect

Location: Knutsford (2-3 days onsite)

Contract Duration: Until 30 September 2026

No sponsorship offered.

Contractor eligibility: BPSS

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver end-to-end architecture for modern digital applications
• Define technology stacks, platforms, and integration patterns
• Contribute to and influence the technology roadmap within your domain
• Ensure adherence to architecture, security, and governance standards
• Produce architecture artefacts and participate in governance forums
• Partner with product and business teams to translate requirements into solutions
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring teams and promoting best practices

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven experience architecting distributed systems (microservices, REST APIs, cloud-native solutions)
• Strong hands-on expertise with AWS, Azure, or GCP, including migration strategies
• Solid software engineering background (e.g. Java, Python) with Agile delivery experience
• Financial services domain experience, ideally within payments, cards, or digital channels
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Strong problem-solving mindset with the ability to balance business and technical trade-offs

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