Responsibilities
- Define and maintain application architecture roadmaps aligned with business strategy and target-state architecture.
- Lead scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable application solutions across cloud-native, SaaS, bespoke, and legacy landscapes.
- Establish integration, API, event-driven, and microservices architecture standards and best practices.
- Provide architecture governance, design assurance, risk management, and technical leadership across transformation programmes.
- Build relationships with senior stakeholders, customers, delivery teams, and suppliers while mentoring architects and technical specialists.
Requirements
- Significant experience in application architecture, solution architecture, software engineering, or enterprise architecture leadership roles.
- Proven enterprise-scale application, digital-services, and transformation-programme delivery experience in 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 Microsoft Azure and/or AWS.
- Exceptional stakeholder management, governance, risk management, and architecture assurance capabilities.
- TOGAF certification and experience applying enterprise architecture frameworks are preferred.
- Knowledge of DevSecOps, CI/CD, application security, observability, and modern engineering practices is preferred.
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain SC clearance.
Benefits
- 25 days of paid leave plus national holidays.
- Pension scheme with contributions matched up to 10%.
- Private medical cover, income protection, and life assurance.
- Flexible benefits programme.
- UK-based role with remote working available and national mobility required.
About Atos
Atos Group is a global leader in digital transformation with c. 56,000 employees and annual revenue of c. €7.2 billion (at the go-forward perimeter), operating in 54 countries under two brands - Atos for services and Eviden for products and systems. European number one in cybersecurity and a leader in cloud, Atos Group is committed to a secure and decarbonized future and provides tailored AI-powered, end-to-end solutions for all industries. Atos Group is listed on Euronext Paris. Atos is the services brand of Atos Group, delivering AI powered, secure and end to end digital services to public and private organizations worldwide. Atos designs, builds and run digital environments that are critical to performance, resilience and sovereignty, helping clients keep control of their data, infrastructure and compliance, with clear accountability from strategy to operations. With more than 54,000 people serving 4,500+ clients in 54 countries, Atos helps modernize core IT, accelerate cloud and data transformation, strengthen cybersecurity and enable secure digital workplaces, delivering impact for clients, employees and society at large. Atos offers end-to-end IT services across the cloud, cybersecurity, data and AI, application services, smart platforms and digital workplace, as well as localized consulting and advisory services under its brand Atos Amplify. Atos is trusted to operate complex, business-critical environments, especially in regulated and sovereign contexts.