Application Architect

About the role

The Application Architect joins the Risk Intelligence Content Curation and Distribution team and plays a key technical role in the Risk Intelligence Engineering organisation. The role contributes to the architecture and technical direction of the Risk Content Curation and Distribution Platform, focusing on application-level architecture, design quality and technical guidance. It works closely with Solution Architects, Product Owners and engineering teams, translating business and non-functional requirements into robust, scalable designs in a cloud-native, distributed environment.

Key responsibilities

• Shape application architectures aligned with enterprise and solution-level standards, promoting consistency, reuse and good design practices.
• Review significant technical design decisions with engineering and solution architecture teams, ensuring performance, resilience, scalability and maintainability.
• Act as a technical point of reference for development teams, influencing technical decisions through expertise and clear communication.
• Guide the design of cloud-native, AWS-hosted applications, including observability, supportability, deployment and cost considerations.
• Contribute to architectural roadmaps, validate approaches with lightweight proofs of concept and improve architectural practices and standards.

Required profile

• Experience as an application architect or senior engineering role in distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of application design, API design and data modelling.
• Experience designing and operating AWS-based applications in a cloud-native environment.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences and to influence decisions across teams.
• Experience in financial services, risk, compliance or other regulated environments is desirable but not essential.

Required skills

• Solid experience with Java and/or Python in production environments.
• Containerised architectures, messaging patterns and distributed data stores.
• Infrastructure as Code and modern CI/CD practices.
• Security, authentication and authorisation concepts.
• Event-driven architectures, asynchronous messaging at scale, and performance, scalability and resilience engineering.
• Observability practices and familiarity with modern front-end architectures and integration patterns.