9 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own enterprise architecture assessments and target-state definitions for large-scale legacy modernization initiatives.
- Assess monolithic applications, shared databases, batch processing, middleware integrations, reporting dependencies, operational constraints, and resilience gaps.
- Define future-state architectures using microservices, domain-driven design, database-per-service, API-led integration, event-driven processing, cloud portability, automated delivery, observability, and governance.
- Establish architecture guardrails, reference patterns, decision records, integration standards, data ownership principles, service boundaries, and non-functional requirements.
- Guide incremental modernization through strangler migration, parallel runs, coexistence, controlled cutover, rollback planning, reconciliation, and phased capability transition.
- Provide architecture direction for messaging, APIs, file-based interfaces, event streaming, schema governance, idempotent processing, error handling, retries, and dead-letter handling.
- Align application modernization with governed data platforms, lineage, auditability, data quality, reporting readiness, and operational data consumption.
- Drive architecture alignment across cloud, on-premise, and hybrid deployments, including Kubernetes, containers, platform engineering, DevSecOps, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, secrets management, and environment readiness.
- Define and validate high availability, disaster recovery, failover, monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, operational readiness, and supportability requirements.
- Facilitate governance forums, design reviews, solution walkthroughs, migration readiness assessments, risk reviews, and cross-team decision-making.
- Support implementation oversight through build, testing, deployment, cutover, stabilization, and hyper-care.
- Create and maintain architecture assessments, target-state blueprints, transition architectures, integration views, dependency maps, decision logs, runbooks, and modernization roadmaps.
Requirements
- 15–20 years of experience in enterprise architecture and large-scale legacy modernization.
- Proven experience with distributed systems, integration platforms, database ecosystems, cloud-enabled platforms, and regulated enterprise environments.
- Strong expertise in enterprise architecture, application architecture, microservices, event-driven architecture, API and integration architecture, cloud-agnostic architecture, domain-driven design, strangler-pattern migration, DevSecOps, observability, data governance, and cloud portability.
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft .NET, REST and gRPC APIs, middleware platforms, enterprise messaging, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Docker, and Kafka.
- Knowledge of asynchronous processing, schema management, replayability, idempotency, dead-letter handling, distributed workflows, sagas, contract-first design, and integration resilience patterns.
- Experience with cloud-agnostic and hybrid architecture, containerized deployment, platform engineering, workload isolation, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, automated quality gates, release orchestration, vulnerability scanning, and audit-ready change management.
- Experience defining resilience, disaster recovery, failover, observability, monitoring, logging, tracing, service-level objectives, incident handling, and support transition requirements.
- Understanding of enterprise data platforms, Databricks, governed reporting, data lineage, data quality, auditability, regulatory evidence, and interactions between operational and analytical platforms.
- Strong stakeholder management, architecture governance, decision facilitation, risk articulation, technical communication, documentation, and cross-functional coordination skills.
- Ability to balance target-state ambition with delivery pragmatism, coexistence constraints, incremental migration, business continuity, operational stability, and regulatory expectations.
- Financial services or banking domain experience is preferred.
- Preferred certifications include TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioner or TOGAF 9 Certified, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, and Certified Kubernetes Administrator.
Benefits
- Opportunity to work on complex enterprise Azure environments and help shape the Managed Services capability.
- Opportunity to solve challenging technical problems, influence standards and automation, mentor engineers, and collaborate with customers and technical teams.
- London, UK location.
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About Ascent
Ascent Global Logistics provides expedited, time-critical transportation and freight management for shippers, spanning domestic brokerage, international freight forwarding, and managed logistics. The company connects customers to a carrier network through its PEAK digital marketplace and also operates its own cargo airline (USA Jet Airlines) for on-demand air charters. Founded in 2017, Ascent is headquartered in Belleville, Michigan and is privately held by H.I.G. Capital.