Application Architect, Knutsford, UK (290150)

Role: Application Architect
Location: Knutsford
Duration: End of December 2025

Job description

Providing architectural oversight for design and development of applications
Ensuring the quality and consistency of the applications architecture across the system and providing technical guidance to the development teams
Defining application architectures and recommending courses of action to ensure technology is consistent, usable, secure and adds value to the business
Reviewing code developed by Developers to ensure code is consistent with architecture design
Adhering to enterprise architecture standards, ensuring integration technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization

Contribute
Troubleshooting, recommending and executing action plans for issue resolution
Participating in the evaluation, selection and implementation of technology solutions including providing detailed analysis of pros and cons and build vs. buy options
Serving as application architecture subject matter expert
Providing guidance on integration solutions and preparing benchmarking reports and presentations
Submit proof of concepts for technical changes

Evaluate
Evaluating strengths and flaws in application architecture designs including performance, quality, and availability, simplicity of design, security and total cost of ownership
Selecting and designing tools that allow reuse of design components and patterns between projects
Researching and evaluating new technology and development tools to remain abreast of current and emerging technology
Assess and recommend cost-effective new tools technologies in accordance with strategic objectives

Manage
Facilitating project handoffs including preparing documentation, educating and supporting to ensure smooth transitions
Service provisioning, product catalo integration, and billing systems integration
Generate stakeholder buy-in and lead through influence at a senior management level

Skills Generic:
Background in applications rather than infrastructure or networking
Proven experience integrating COTS into wide ecosystem of applications
Analytical and critical thinking skills, prepared to challenge conventional thinking
SDLC understand, be able to explain differences and influence choices over various delivery approaches
Cloud experience - AWS and Azure
Application Architect/Design in a multi-tier environment
Enterprise Integration patterns
Java & Middleware
Significant Java architecture experience - Web, ESB integration, Microservices, Authentication/Authorization patterns
Experience in Java technologies and open source frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate, Struts/Spring MVC
Experience with IBM WebSphere, Apache, JBOSS and Tomcat
Experience with JMS, Servlets, JSP, Ajax, JAX-WS, JAX-B
Hudson and Jenkins
Web services, SOAP and REST
Front End development exposure with JavaScript, AngularJS, JQuery, HTML 5, CSS3
Hands-on architecture experience including RESTful APIs, distributed systems, public/private cloud, mobile and data persistence
Hands on knowledge/experience using web Servers (eg, Apache) and portals (eg, JBoss, or custom portals)
Hands-on working experience in architecting/building and maintaining web applications
Hands-on experience in Content Management Systems such as Adobe Experience Manager or other such competing products