2 months 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 based on microservices, database-per-service, API-led integration, event-driven processing, cloud portability, observability, and governance.
- Establish architecture guardrails, reference patterns, decision records, integration standards, data ownership principles, service boundaries, and non-functional requirements.
- Guide incremental migration using strangler migration, parallel run, coexistence, controlled cutover, rollback planning, reconciliation, and phased transition.
- Provide architecture direction for messaging, APIs, file interfaces, event streaming, schema governance, idempotent processing, retries, and dead-letter handling.
- Align application modernization with governed data platforms, data lineage, auditability, data quality, reporting readiness, and operational data consumption.
- Drive architecture alignment across cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments, including Kubernetes, containerization, 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 architecture governance forums, technical design reviews, solution walkthroughs, migration readiness assessments, risk reviews, and cross-team decisions.
- Provide implementation oversight through build, test, deployment, cutover, stabilization, and hyper-care phases.
- Create and maintain current-state 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, legacy modernization, distributed systems, integration platforms, database ecosystems, cloud-enabled platforms, and regulated enterprise environments.
- Deep experience assessing monolithic, tightly coupled, database-centric, and batch-driven estates and translating findings into practical target-state architectures and migration roadmaps.
- Strong knowledge of microservices, domain-driven design, service decomposition, database-per-service patterns, distributed workflows, sagas, APIs, and contract-first design.
- Strong knowledge of event-driven architecture, Kafka-based event streaming, schema management, asynchronous processing, replayability, idempotency, dead-letter handling, and integration resilience patterns.
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft .NET ecosystems, REST and gRPC APIs, middleware platforms, enterprise messaging, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and application modernization technologies.
- Understanding of cloud-agnostic and hybrid architecture principles, Kubernetes, Docker, containerized deployment, cloud portability, platform engineering, and workload isolation.
- Experience with DevSecOps, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, automated quality gates, release orchestration, environment promotion, vulnerability scanning, and audit-ready change management.
- Ability to define resilience, observability, monitoring, logging, tracing, service-level objectives, incident handling, disaster recovery, and support-transition requirements.
- Knowledge of enterprise data platforms, Databricks, governed reporting, data lineage, data quality, auditability, regulatory evidence, and operational-to-analytical data interactions.
- 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.
- Ability to design secure, governed architectures connecting business process execution, AI capabilities, and enterprise data platforms with appropriate human oversight.
- Financial services or banking experience is preferred, including familiarity with trading-platform ecosystems and pre-trade and post-trade reporting, data, and regulatory requirements.
- 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 across 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.
- The role is based in London, UK.
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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.