1,835 Web Architect jobs in the United Kingdom

Introduction
At IBM CIC, we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.

A career in IBM CIC means you'll have the opportunity to work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change for our clients, using some of the latest technology platforms.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You'll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself, focusing on skills in demand in an ever changing market. You'll be working with diverse teams, coming up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, who may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

We Offer

• Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
• Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
• Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
• Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
• A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
• Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
• Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future

Your Role And Responsibilities
We are seeking an experienced Senior Application Architect specializing in Java and web technologies to lead the design and development of robust, scalable, and secure enterprise applications. This role presents an excellent opportunity for a seasoned professional to contribute to our cutting-edge software development initiatives and play a pivotal role in our organization's digital transformation journey.

Responsibilities

• Architecture Design and Implementation: Design and implement scalable, secure, and maintainable enterprise application architectures using Java and web technologies.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams to comprehend business and technical requirements, translating them into effective application designs.
• Technical Leadership and Mentorship: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior architects and developers, fostering a culture of excellence and knowledge sharing.
• Technology Innovation and Improvement: Stay current with Java, web technologies, and emerging trends, driving innovation and continuous improvement in our application development practices.
• Problem Solving: Apply strong problem-solving skills to analyze complex systems, identify areas for optimization and improvement, and drive solutions.
• Communication and Stakeholder Engagement: Articulate technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring alignment and understanding of project objectives and progress.

Preferred Education
Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• AWS and JavaScript Expertise: At least 3 years of hands-on experience with AWS (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, etc.), CloudFormation, and JavaScript.
• Java and Web Technologies Proficiency: Proven experience in designing and implementing large-scale enterprise applications using Java and web technologies. In-depth knowledge of Java frameworks like Spring and Hibernate, and web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and frameworks like React or Angular.
• Software Architecture Acumen: Strong understanding of software architecture principles and patterns, with practical experience in microservices, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native development.
• Analytical Skills: Exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex systems and propose solutions.
• Communication Skills: Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, with a proven track record of articulating technical concepts to diverse audiences.

As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last 10 years. You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance.

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Testing and DevOps: Experience with Cypress testing and familiarity with openshift containers (Docker) and orchestration tools (Kubernetes).
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Familiarity with IaC tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Data Engineering: Knowledge of data engineering and experience with big data technologies like Hadoop, Spark, or Kafka.
• CI/CD and Automation: Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation, using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, or CircleCI.

Applications Architect at Proactis – Hybrid (2 days/week in Reading or Wetherby)

Are you ready to shape the future of enterprise applications in a scaling tech organisation?

I'm hiring an Applications Architect to lead the definition and delivery of a multi-year application strategy at Proactis . This is a high-impact role where you’ll work closely with senior stakeholders, mentor technical architects, and drive secure, scalable, and modern application design across the business.

The Business

Proactis is a leading Source-to-Pay provider helping organisations streamline procurement and finance operations. With a strong customer base across public and private sectors, they're on a mission to modernise their technology landscape and build future-proof solutions that scale.

The Role

You’ll be responsible for:

• Defining and owning the application strategy aligned with business and technology goals.
• Mentoring technical architects and uplifting solution design capabilities.
• Driving DevOps-aligned , secure-by-design delivery practices.
• Standardising integration patterns and modernising legacy applications.
• Disseminating cloud knowledge (Azure) across teams.

What You’ll Bring

• Proven experience as an Application Architect , Technical Lead or similar.
• Deep expertise in .NET, React (JavaScript), Azure , integration patterns, and DevOps tooling.
• Strong understanding of governance frameworks (e.g., TOGAF).
• Experience leading architecture for large-scale systems.
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills.

What You’ll Get

• Hybrid working: 2 days/week in Reading or Wetherby
• Opportunity to shape a legacy-heavy environment into a modern architecture function.
• Exposure to enterprise-level strategy, cloud transformation, and large-scale delivery.
• Collaborative, mentoring-focused culture.

Don't wait - apply now to be part of a collaborative, forward-thinking team where your architectural vision will drive real impact!

Application Architect

Job Type : Contract 6+ Months- Inside Ir35

Job Location : London, UK

Client : Wipro

Job Description

Role Purpose

The purpose of the role is to create exceptional and detailed architectural application design and provide thought leadership and enable delivery teams to provide exceptional client engagement and satisfaction.

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Do

1. Develop architectural application for the new deals/ major change requests in existing deals

a. Creates an enterprise-wide architecture that ensures systems are scalable, reliable, and manageable.

b. Manages application assets and directs the development efforts within an enterprise to improve solution delivery and agility

c. Guides how to construct and assemble application components and services to support solution architecture and application development

d. Maintains the frameworks and artefacts used in the implementation of an application, with reference to the systematic architecture of the overall application portfolio

e. Responsible for application architecture paradigms such as service-oriented architecture (SOA) and, more specifically, microservices, ensuring business achieve agility and scalability for a faster time to market

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f. Provide solution of RFP’s received from clients and ensure overall design assurance

• Develop a direction to manage the portfolio of to-be-solutions including systems, shared infrastructure services, applications in order to better match business outcome objectives

• Analyse technology environment, enterprise specifics, client requirements to set a collaboration design framework/ architecture

• Depending on the client’s need with particular standards and technology stacks create complete RFPs

• Provide technical leadership to the design, development and implementation of custom solutions through thoughtful use of modern technology

• Define and understand current state solutions and identify improvements, options & tradeoffs to define target state solutions

• Clearly articulate and sell architectural targets, recommendations and reusable patterns and accordingly propose investment roadmaps

• Evaluate and recommend solutions to integrate with overall technology ecosystem

• Tracks industry and application trends and relates these to planning current and future IT needs

g. Provides technical and strategic inputs during the project planning phase in the form of technical architectural designs and recommendations

h. Account mining to find opportunities in the existing clients

i. Collaborates with all relevant parties in order to review the objectives and constraints of solutions and determine conformance with the Enterprise Architecture.

j. Identifies implementation risks and potential impacts.

k. Create new revenue streams within applications as APIs that can be leveraged by clients

l. Bring knowledge of automation in application by embracing Agile and dev-ops principles to reduce manual part

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2. Understanding application requirements and design a standardize application

a. Creating Intellectual Property in forms of services, patterns, models and organizational approaches

b. Designing patterns, best practices and reusable applications that can be used for future references

c. Ensure system capabilities are consumed by system components and set criteria for evaluating technical and business value in terms of Tolerate, Invest, Migrate and Eliminate

d. Provide platform to create standardize tools, uniform design and techniques are maintained to reduce costs of maintenance

e. Coordinating input on risks, costs and opportunities for concepts

f. Developing customised applications for the customers aligned with their needs

g. Perform design and code reviews thoroughly on regular basis, keeping in mind the security measures

h. Understanding design and production procedures and standards to create prototypes and finished products

i. Work closely with systems analysts, software developers, data managers and other team members to ensure successful production of application software

j. Offer viable solutions for various systems and architectures to different types of businesses

k. Seamless integration of new and existing systems to eliminate potential problems and maintain data structure and bring value in terms of development

l. Transforming all applications into digital form and implement and evolve around mesh app and service architecture that support new technologies like IOT, blockchain, machine learning, automation, BOTS etc

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m. Cloud Transformation: (Migration)

• Understanding non-functional requirements

• Producing artefacts such as deployment architecture, interface catalogue

• Identify internal and external dependency, vendor and internal IT management

• Support build and testing team

n. Cloud Transformation: (Modernization)

• Understanding and Defining target architecture in Integration space

• Assessing project pipeline / demand and align to target architecture

• Technical support of delivery team in terms and POC and technical guidance

o. Keep Up-to-date with the latest technologies in the market

• Evidence of strong process, technical and team leadership skills, with a passion for delivering leading edge designs and inspiring a culture of technical excellence and innovative solution design.

• Experience of navigating the complex landscapes of technologies, 3rd party suppliers (driving the procurement process), internal and cross-government (or similarly complex) teams.

• Management & delivery of complex service solutions within time, cost and quality targets, ensuring solutions are robust, resilient, and appropriately implemented, tested and documented.

• Work in digital technologies and approaches including cloud (SaaS/PaaS/IaaS/cloud native), common front and back end technologies, software defined infrastructure, continuous delivery and DevOps. AWS cloud experience preferable.

• Design hybrid solution and migration path for on-prem / cloud services.

• Experience of owning and contributing to the technical roadmap and strategy.

• Experience in anticipating and advising on future technology changes that present opportunities for the application or service.

• Ability to communicate clearly in a language which meets the needs of different users/stakeholders through selecting the appropriate channels & formats and managing expectations whilst adapting to stakeholder's reactions with flexibility.

• Identifying process improvements and defining best practice, inspiring teams to follow it.

• Understanding of Lean, Agile and DevOps principles

• Mentor team of varied experience levels

• Certification – preferably in TOGAF, Oracle, AWS Solution Architect Associate/Professional or similar Essential Skills:

• SME & Expertise in varied Architecture Landscape touch points of both On-Prem & Cloud, Hybrid, varied Programming Languages, Infrastructure(DR), Security, CI/CD, Scalability , Resilience and Performance • Expertise in Relational/Oracle, NoSQL Database concepts

• Experience in Oracle PL/SQL, SQL Developer, Toad & DW DBA knowledge, gap analysis, performance analysis and proposing solutions based on varied product evaluations in current market

• Strong Architectural & hands-on experience in Oracle, MongoDB & DynamoDB

• Ability to evaluate, run POC and suggest to Business & Tech stakeholders of products fit for purpose addressing the performance & other bottlenecks in BAU system

• Strong background in Integration technologies and platforms such as Mulesoft

• Expertise in Integration patterns involving files(using FTP, SFTP, MoveIT), MQ, CDC, Message Bus, Hub & Spoke, Pub/Sub

• Experience in implementation of Security standards for Data in Transit & Rest such as TLS / SSL, Data Encryption

• Knowledge in MQ & AMQ concepts such as RabbitMQ & Oracle MQ

• Expertise Knowledge in Data Management workflow & integration such as Data Lake, ETL , Data Ingestion, Sharding, Data Stream, Data Catalogue, Data Cleansing, Data Analytics, Batch, Scheduling

• Implementation knowledge on principles such as ACID, SOLID, OWASP

• Knowledge on UK GDPR, PII, PCI-DSS data standards

• Implementation of designs related to Batch processing patterns involving Talend, Databricks, Snowflake or similar

• Experience of running GDPR related projects involving Data Sourcing, Validations, Integration, Data Disposition, Auditing & Reporting

• Ability to treat Data as an Asset and Architect & provide Solutions aligned to it • Strong working knowledge in Java 8+ with Clean Architecture, Mockito, Java Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Apache Camel

• needs to possess an expert depth and breadth of knowledge regarding multiple technologies and their inter-relationships, e.g.: Web applications, Java & Oracle.

• Extensive experience working in Java, microservice architecture, containerisation, enterprise integration patterns, data storage in a highly available, distributed products.

• Cloud native delivery skills following open standards in – Containers As a Service/PaaS/IaaS, AWS CDK, Fargate, Secrets manager, Lambda, ECS, EKS, S3, MongoDB Atlassian, Serverless Functions and data insight solutions.

• Experience in designing systems for integration and re-use, using frameworks/standards, technologies and design patterns such as API Gateways, REST, Message Brokers and token-based security.

• Expertise in Auth & Auth principles & tools such as SAML, OpenID, OAuth, JWT, OKTA, AWS Cognito, Hashicorp Vault

• Designing solution and leading digital delivery teams to using Agile and DevOps methodologies to ensure automation and delivery pipelines flowing from development, testing, infrastructure as code to automated deployment

• A demonstrable record of designing solutions to key non-functional requirements including cyber/security policies, resilience, logging, errors and scalability abiding SLA

• Experience in creating & guiding in Architecture Artefacts such as Tech/Arch Roadmap/Strategy, High Level Design, LLD, Estimation, Product Evaluation Matrix, Gap Analysis, Performance Matrix

• Enterprise Architecture knowledge and practical exposure to TOGAF or Zachman