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Role Title: Cloud Sol Architect- Java, AWS

Location: Knutsford/ Northampton

Duration: 31/10/2025

Rate: 492GBP/Day(Inside IR35)

Role Description:

-Client is looking for Digital Architect. You will be part of a dynamic team responsible for providing advanced technical support.

You will be responsible for the delivery of the development, project leadership, quality, and timely delivery of the project.

-Manage scope of projects from inception to closure. Define, develop, and manage implementation schedules and project budgets.

-Identify key business objectives and provide solution recommendations while performing business proves and management consulting analysis.

-Coordinate resources, prepare project teams for kick-off and ensure effective completion of project milestones, control project scope and mitigate risks.

-Ensure project team are delivering to configuration, development, and methodology standards.

-Develop the release strategy and implement.

-Ensure delivery processes are efficient and cost effective.

-Have a deep understanding of AWS technology stack to drive end to end architecture and engineer the solutions with the development team keeping delivery timelines in mind

Responsibilities -

-Good technical experience in Java, Backend & Cloud( preferable AWS) architecture.

-Extensive hands on and provide technical direction to development teams

-Strong understanding of SDLC and Architecture.

-Extensive background in development and delivering complex projects throughout the lifecycle.

-Project planning and progress monitoring, including budget control and milestone control.

-Creative problem solver, able to build contingency plans and handle stressful situations with professionalism.

-Provide leadership and direction to the Delivery teams. Handle Operational issues related to the delivery center.

-Become the Single point of contact for delivery and act as a liaison between the Service Delivery and the Customer.

-Drive and coordinate crisis management.

-Strong negotiation and presentation skills.

-Understanding of Agile methodologies.

-Strong exposure to containerization, docker and CI/CD models like Jenkins pipelines

-Strong in defining and maintaining APIs with Restful standards and relevant design patterns of driving microservices based development

-Have basic working knowledge on public cloud platform, preferable AWS

Skills required-

-Have deep knowledge on AWS technical stack- Lambda, DynamoDB, Kinesis, API gateway ,monitoring solutions like Cloud Watch and Xray

-Have deep knowledge on event driven systems using frameworks like Active MQ, Kafka, AWS Kinesis

-Have a working experience of AWS data pipelines, Glue, S3 and Glacier storage, file transfer solutions like Data Sync--- - TC14_Cloud Architect_EMM---Solution Architect - One to Three Years, Architecture - One to Three Years---PSP Defined SCU in Solution Architect

If you are interested in this position and would like to learn more, please send through your CV and we will get in touch with you as soon as possible.

Please note, candidates are often Shortlisted within 48 hours.

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About us

We are The Very Group, and we’re here to help families on a budget get more out of life. We know that our customers work hard for their families and have a lot to balance in their busy lives. That’s why we combine amazing brands and products with flexible payment options on Very.co.uk to help them say yes to the things they love when they need them most.

Role Purpose

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building and running front-end and/or back-end software solutions in an agile delivery squad. This role is hands-on, you’ll be actively involved in designing, implementing and running the products and services that your squad are responsible for. You’ll help shape best practices in software engineering, then both work to and coach other Squad members into driving and ensuring high quality solutions. 

Scope of Role

Nature and Area of impact:  

• Full Software Development Life Cycle, including coding practices, frameworks, tech debt and operations for all engineering activities within your squad. 
• Work with other Engineers in your Squad/ Tribe, Business Analysts, Product Owners and Architects to envision, design and deliver industry leading systems. 

• Identify, build, acquire, enhance Software Engineering standards and tools. Influencing Leads, Architects and other Engineers to agree and adopt. 

• Design and build software that balances the commercial needs of the business alongside delivering the future tech roadmap. 

• Lead and actively participate in application and database design, data flows and detailed technical design. Ensure that analysis includes the wider view of technical and business impact. 

• Own your code quality. Work with other Engineers to drive this behaviour in them 

• Own non-functional requirements around performance, security and scalability to ensure we deliver a great customer experience. Driving best practice around real-time logging, monitoring, alerting. 

• Proactively drive the enhancement of continuous integration to improve deployment processes in the squad. 

• Identify obstacles, risks and issues that may / do impact the technical product and work with all stakeholders required to mitigate them. 

• Adhere to policies and standards that impact solutions. 

• Provide Run support for technical products within Squad. 

• Proactively support and mentor other team members, working with them to help them improve their skills.  

• Champion your Squads engineering successes and best practices both internally and externally 

• Understand the external Technology landscape and look to leverage this knowledge to enhance software engineering in your Squad/ Tribe and across The Very Group. 

About you

• Significant experience of building, integrating, maintaining and managing complex software architectures, ideally across multi-cloud environments. 

• Significant experience of Java, Spring, AWS components, pipeline technologies e.g. GitLab CI 

• Demonstrable experience of supporting and guiding less experienced Software Engineers.

• Be passionate about code quality, testing and other engineering best practices. 

• Significant experience of building software applications that have security, reliability, scalability, high availability and concurrency built-in from the outset. 

• A strong collaborator and communicator. 
• Computer Science degree or relevant experience. 

• A background and relevant current experience in a hands-on software engineering role is essential. 

• Confident and comfortable to share stories internally and externally to build our Very Group brand and credibility to attract and retain talent. 

• Be constantly interested in the Technology and Engineering landscapes internally and externally. 

Some of our benefits

• Flexible, hybrid working model
• Inclusive culture and environment

• £1,000 flexible benefits allowance to suit your needs
• 30 days holiday + bank holidays
• Udemy learning access
• Up to 25% discount on Very.co.uk

• Matched pension up to 6%
• More benefits can be found on our career site

How to apply

Please note that the talent acquisition team are managing this vacancy directly, and if successful in securing this role, you will be required to undertake a credit, CIFAS, Right to Work checks and if a specific requirement of your role a DBS (criminal records) check. Should your application progress we require you to let the team know if there is anything you need to disclose in relation to any of these checks prior to them being undertaken, including any unspent criminal convictions.

What happens next?

Our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch if you’re successful so keep an eye on your emails! We’ll arrange a short call to learn more about you, as well as answer any questions you have.

For this role after meeting our Talent Acquisition Team you can expect a 2 stage process.

First Stage - A Technical Interview, we will ask you to complete a take home task which we will use as the basis for the conversation, we will dig deeper into some of your decisions (60-90 minutes on Teams)

Second Stage - Behavioural Interview, this interview focuses more on your softer skills, how you like to work as part of a Software Engineering Team (60 minutes onsite)

If you'd like to know more about our interviews, you can find out here .

Equal opportunities

We’re an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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