Senior Applications Architect
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Senior Applications Architect leading enterprise application architecture for Atos, an AI-powered digital services company. Driving secure cloud, integration, and transformation programmes across UK financial services.
Responsibilities:
- Define and maintain application architecture roadmaps aligned with business strategy, digital transformation objectives, and target-state architecture
- Lead the design of scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable application solutions across cloud-native, SaaS, bespoke, and legacy technology landscapes
- Establish application integration, API, event-driven, and microservices architecture standards and best practices
- Provide architecture governance, design assurance, risk management, and technical leadership across major transformation programmes
- Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, customers, delivery teams, and suppliers
- Mentor architects and technical specialists
- Work across application modernisation, cloud transformation, platform engineering, and enterprise integration initiatives
- Ensure technology investments deliver measurable business value while maintaining security, resilience, and regulatory compliance
Requirements:
- Significant experience in Application Architecture, Solution Architecture, Software Engineering, or Enterprise Architecture leadership roles
- Proven experience delivering enterprise-scale applications, digital services, and transformation programmes within Financial Services, Banking, Insurance, Payments, or similarly regulated sectors
- Strong expertise in API management, integration platforms, event-driven architectures, distributed systems, and microservices
- Experience with cloud-native architectures and modern platforms including Microsoft Azure and/or AWS
- Exceptional stakeholder management, governance, risk management, and architecture assurance capabilities
- TOGAF certification and experience applying enterprise architecture frameworks
- Knowledge of DevSecOps, CI/CD, application security, observability, and modern engineering practices
- Candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain SC clearance
- UK-based
- National mobility required
Benefits:
- 25 days paid leave plus National Holidays
- Pension Scheme with contributions matched up to 10%
- Private Medical Cover
- Income Protection
- Life Assurance
- Flexible Benefits Programme
- Long-term career growth
- Internal mobility
- Opportunities to work across complex, high-profile engagements
- Reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment and assessment process


















