Technical Architect - UK Public Sector | eSC/eDV

IBM
IBM

IT

Remote

Posted on Sep 17, 2026
Introduction

At IBM Consulting UK FutureNow, you’ll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors.

You’ll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands on experience with cutting edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. From day one, you’ll work on meaningful, high profile programmes that stretch your skills and accelerate your growth.

We invest heavily in you—supporting continuous learning, in demand skills development, and long term career progression. You’ll thrive in a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity, encourages reinvention, and recognises what makes you unique.

We offer:

  • 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 pension plan through salary sacrifice.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

We're looking for a Senior Application Architect to help shape, design and deliver modern, scalable and secure solutions supporting complex and mission-critical services.

In this role, you'll work closely with stakeholders, engineering teams and fellow architects to define application architectures, modernisation strategies and cloud-native solutions. You'll play a key role in translating business and technical requirements into architectures that are secure, resilient and maintainable, whilst helping delivery teams successfully implement them.

You'll influence architecture decisions across applications, integrations and cloud platforms, balancing technical excellence with operational, security and business requirements.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design scalable, secure and resilient application architectures aligned to business and user requirements.
  • Define architecture patterns for web applications, APIs, integrations and cloud-native services.
  • Lead application modernisation initiatives, including migration of legacy applications and adoption of modern engineering practices.
  • Produce and maintain architecture artefacts including High-Level Designs (HLDs), technical roadmaps and architecture decision records.
  • Work closely with engineering teams to ensure architecture principles are successfully implemented.
  • Define integration approaches across applications, data platforms, APIs and third-party services.
  • Collaborate with cloud and platform teams to ensure solutions are optimised for AWS and modern cloud environments.
  • Promote best practice across software architecture, security, performance, observability and resilience.
  • Support architecture governance through design reviews, peer reviews and architecture assurance activities.
  • Drive adoption of modern engineering practices including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps approaches.
  • Mentor engineers, technical leads and junior architects.
  • Contribute to recruitment and growth of the wider architecture and engineering community.
Required education
None
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Experience designing enterprise-scale applications and distributed systems.
  • Strong background in Java and modern application development frameworks.
  • Experience designing microservices-based architectures and RESTful APIs.
  • Experience working within cloud environments, ideally AWS.
  • Strong understanding of software architecture patterns, design principles and engineering best practices.
  • Experience modernising legacy applications and supporting cloud adoption initiatives.
  • Experience working with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes/EKS.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation and modern software delivery practices.
  • Ability to communicate architecture decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience producing architecture deliverables such as HLDs, solution designs and technical decision records.

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Enhanced Security Check (eSC) or Enhanced Developed Vetting (eDV).

Preferred technical and professional experience
  • AWS architecture or engineering experience.
  • Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging technologies.
  • Knowledge of Kubernetes, EKS and cloud-native application platforms.
  • Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation.
  • Experience with observability tooling such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana or ELK.
  • Experience within large-scale enterprise, regulated or security-conscious environments.
  • Exposure to architecture governance, design authorities and technical assurance processes.
  • Experience leading or mentoring engineering teams.
  • Active UK Security Clearance.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

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Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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