About the role

  • Application Architect driving application design and technical direction for World-Check customers in financial services. Collaborates with teams to build robust, scalable cloud-native applications.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to and shape application architectures aligned with enterprise and solution-level standards
  • Translate requirements into clear, pragmatic architectural designs
  • Apply and promote architectural principles, security standards, and engineering best practices
  • Review significant technical design decisions within the application scope
  • Ensure solutions meet required quality attributes including performance, resilience, scalability, and maintainability
  • Act as a recognised technical point of reference for development teams
  • Collaborate with a range of stakeholders to evaluate design options and trade-offs
  • Guide the design of cloud‑native, AWS‑hosted applications
  • Promote continuous improvements, by contributing to architectural roadmaps and the ongoing evolution of the platform
  • Validate architectural approaches through lightweight proofs of concept

Requirements

  • Experience as an application architect or senior engineering role within distributed systems
  • Strong understanding of application design, API design, and data modelling
  • Solid experience with Java and/or Python in production environments
  • Practical experience designing and operating AWS‑based applications in a cloud‑native environment
  • Working knowledge of containerised architectures, messaging patterns, and distributed data stores
  • Understanding of Infrastructure as Code concepts and modern CI/CD practices
  • Sound understanding of security, authentication, and authorisation concepts
  • Experience in designing solutions with good observability practices embedded
  • Understanding of performance, scalability, and resilience engineering
  • Familiarity with modern front‑end architectures and integration patterns
  • Experience in financial services, risk, compliance, or regulated environments is desirable but not essential

Benefits

  • Healthcare
  • Retirement planning
  • Paid volunteering days
  • Wellbeing initiatives

Job title

Application Architect

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

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