Technical Architect

Salary: £70,000 - 110,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong experience as a Technical Architect or Lead Engineer within large public-sector, government or regulated environments.
• Strong background in Java and Spring Boot service design and delivery.
• Experience designing REST APIs, microservices and integration patterns.
• Good understanding of event-driven architecture, messaging and asynchronous processing.
• Experience with cloud-hosted platforms, CI/CD, monitoring and operational support patterns.
• Ability to define technical policy, governance frameworks and engineering best practice.
• Good understanding of information architecture, data flows and lifecycle management.
• Working knowledge of GDS Service Standard, public-sector delivery governance and secure design principles.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, including presenting complex technical concepts clearly.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary agile delivery teams.
• Experience with Azure or AWS-hosted services.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker or containerised service delivery.
• Knowledge of PostgreSQL or other relational databases.
• Experience with Kafka, Azure Service Bus or similar messaging technologies.
• Familiarity with HMCTS, MOJ, justice, policing or wider government platforms.
• Understanding of security assurance, threat modelling, RBAC, audit logging and data protection controls.
• Experience supporting services through alpha, beta, live and continuous improvement phases.

Responsibilities:

• Define and communicate technical architecture for Java and Spring Boot services and supporting platform components.
• Produce high-quality architecture artefacts including HLDs, LLDs, roadmaps, integration patterns, sequence diagrams and data models.
• Lead technical design governance, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles, GDS Service Standard and delivery best practice.
• Provide technical assurance across delivery teams, suppliers and stakeholders.
• Own and articulate technical requirements through governance and assurance processes.
• Support architectural decision-making across discovery, alpha, beta and live service phases.
• Translate business and operational needs into clear, deliverable technical designs.
• Provide architecture direction for Java and Spring Boot applications, APIs, microservices and event-driven services.
• Define reusable engineering patterns for service design, configuration, observability, error handling, resilience and maintainability.
• Guide teams on Spring Boot best practice, including dependency management, REST API design, testing approaches and integration patterns.
• Support decisions around modularity, service boundaries, domain modelling and data ownership.
• Review designs and implementation approaches to ensure services are scalable, supportable and fit for live operation.
• Oversee integration patterns with upstream and downstream systems, including APIs, messaging, event streams and batch interfaces.
• Collaborate with developers, platform engineers, test engineers, data specialists and cyber teams to deliver robust solutions.
• Support cloud-hosted delivery patterns, CI/CD, infrastructure integration and operational monitoring.
• Ensure solutions are designed for resilience, performance, maintainability and operational support.
• Develop, document and promote technical standards, reusable patterns and operational best practice.
• Ensure alignment with relevant legislation, information governance requirements and internal technology standards.
• Establish repeatable architecture controls and decision records.
• Support training, coaching and enabling teams to adopt consistent engineering practice.
• Provide expert guidance to delivery teams on architecture constraints, recommended patterns and implementation options.
• Support troubleshooting, risk identification, technical assessments and proof-of-concept design activities.
• Contribute to sprint ceremonies and delivery planning to ensure architecture is embedded across the lifecycle.
• Work with delivery teams to balance pragmatic delivery with long-term maintainability.

Technologies:

• API
• AWS
• Architect
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Docker
• Embedded
• Support
• Java
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• PostgreSQL
• REST
• RBAC
• Security
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• microservices

More:

We are Methods, a UK-based IT services consultancy established over 30 years ago, with more than 100M in revenue and a strong focus on public-sector transformation. We partner with central government departments and agencies, and we are also building a growing private-sector client portfolio. We bring transformation, delivery and collaboration together to create people-centred, safe and future-focused business and technical solutions. We value a human touch, work collaboratively to solve problems, and encourage learning from mistakes. We are part of the Alten Group, a global engineering firm with approximately 57,000 employees. In this role, we are looking for an experienced Technical Architect with a strong Java and Spring Boot background to support customer-specific delivery workstreams and wider digital transformation projects. We offer autonomy to develop and grow your skills, exciting project work that makes a difference in society, strong leadership, and a supportive, collaborative environment, along with learning, wellness, social activities, time off, pension, bonus, life assurance, private medical insurance and worldwide travel insurance.

last updated 36 week of 2026