We're looking for a senior application architect to audit complex systems and define realistic application modernisation roadmaps. You'll assess enterprise architectures, identify technical debt and guide transformation decisions.
What you'll do
- Audit existing, in-development and proposed solutions against business and regulatory requirements.
- Diagnose technical debt, critical dependencies and architectural risks.
- Define target architectures, transformation scenarios and migration roadmaps.
- Produce evidence-based audit reports and maps of components and dependencies.
- Lead architecture reviews and challenge suppliers' choices and estimates.
- Track recommendations through implementation and measure their results.
What you bring
- At least ten years of experience in , including several in audit, transformation or architectural governance.
- At least three significant assignments auditing architectures, diagnosing technical debt or transforming complex systems.
- Experience presenting modernisation roadmaps to decision-makers, evaluating solutions and following up recommendations.
- Experience in public, regulated or comparably complex environments.
- Enterprise skills: Java, Jakarta EE/JEE, and .
- Distributed architectures: , SOA, APIs, integration and event-driven architectures.
- Knowledge of containerisation, orchestration, and data technologies.
- Architecture modelling with UML, or equivalent.
- Ability to assess performance, resilience, security, maintainability, operability and scalability.
- Skills in modernising and rationalising application portfolios.
- Independent judgement and evidence-based recommendations, with clear explanations of options, trade-offs, risks and costs.
- Ability to prioritise structural issues and handle competing requests across multidisciplinary teams.
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Good to know
- Selection includes a written audit and transformation case study, followed by an interview.
What's next?
The people who do well here are the ones who saw themselves in this description. Not because they match every line, but because the mission felt right for them.
We are actively hiring for this position. Applications are reviewed by our team, and matching profiles receive a call to discuss the role in detail.
It takes under a minute to apply. Your email, your CV. That is all we need to start the conversation.

