The ad says“Experience working with multidisciplinary agile delivery teams”
The ad says“Experience with Azure or AWS-hosted services”
The ad says“Experience with Azure or AWS-hosted services”
The ad says“Experience with Kafka, Azure Service Bus or similar messaging technologies”
The ad says“Support cloud-hosted delivery patterns, CI/CD, infrastructure integration and operational monitoring”
The ad says“Produce high-quality architecture artefacts including HLDs, LLDs, roadmaps, integration patterns, sequence diagrams and data models”
The ad says“Experience with Kubernetes, Docker or containerised service delivery”
The ad says“Lead technical design governance, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles, GDS Service Standard and delivery best practice”
The ad says“Good understanding of information architecture, data flows and lifecycle management”
The ad says“Produce high-quality architecture artefacts including HLDs, LLDs, roadmaps, integration patterns, sequence diagrams and data models”
The ad says“Methods is 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”
The ad says“Experience with Kafka, Azure Service Bus or similar messaging technologies”
The ad says“Experience with Kubernetes, Docker or containerised service delivery”
The ad says“Knowledge of PostgreSQL or other relational databases”
The ad says“Guide teams on Spring Boot best practice, including dependency management, REST API design, testing approaches and integration patterns”
The ad says“Produce high-quality architecture artefacts including HLDs, LLDs, roadmaps, integration patterns, sequence diagrams and data models”
The ad says“The role requires hands-on architecture experience across modern service design, integration, cloud-hosted platforms and delivery governance”
The ad says“Methods is 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”
Technical Architect - Java / Spring Boot
Methods is 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
The role requires hands-on architecture experience across modern service design, integration, cloud-hosted platforms and delivery governance
The successful candidate will help shape robust, maintainable and scalable services, working closely with engineering teams, delivery leads, product stakeholders and enterprise architecture functions to ensure technical decisions align with programme outcomes, GDS expectations and wider organisational standards
Define and communicate technical architecture for Java/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
Benefits
Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience
Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society
Strong, inspiring and thought-provoking leadership
A supportive and collaborative environment
Development access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme and training
