Introduction
At IBM Consulting UK FutureNow, you'll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors.
You'll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands on experience with cutting edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. From day one, you'll work on meaningful, high profile programmes that stretch your skills and accelerate your growth.
We invest heavily in you supporting continuous learning, in demand skills development, and long term career progression. You'll thrive in a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity, encourages reinvention, and recognises what makes you unique.
We offer:
- Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
- More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group pension plan through salary sacrifice.
Your role and responsibilities
Integration Architect - Public Sector
We are seeking a Integration Architect to support the design and delivery of hybrid cloud and application modernisation initiatives for our public sector clients. In this role, you will provide technical leadership, architectural guidance, and hands on support for migrating legacy systems to the cloud and developing new cloud native solutions. You will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to create secure, scalable, and maintainable architectures that meet the needs of complex public sector environments.
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver hybrid cloud application modernisation projects, including decomposing existing applications into modular business functions and processes
- Build, deploy, and integrate new components that operate independently of underlying applications and platforms
- Design services and processes that run on interoperable software, enabling communication between applications using established standards such as web services and service oriented architecture (SOA)
- Provide architectural, consultancy, and engineering support to guide clients through their cloud transformation journeys
- Lead enterprise scale transformation projects from requirements through to production, ensuring technical integrity and alignment with organisational goals
- Develop strong working relationships with clients and act as a trusted technical advisor throughout project delivery
If you are motivated by solving complex integration challenges and enjoy working on impactful public sector cloud programmes, we encourage you to apply.
Required technical and professional expertise
- Experience with AWS and/or Azure, and familiarity with microservices, CI/CD practices, and modern cloud, DevOps, and integration technologies
- Background in complex hybrid cloud integration projects, including designing cloud target architectures and integrating with on premise systems
- Demonstrated commitment to continuous learning, ideally supported by recognised industry certifications
- Broad experience designing and delivering technical architectures across application, infrastructure, integration, security, and data domains
- Strong understanding of cloud native and/or serverless architectures
- Extensive experience working with agile delivery methods such as Scrum
- Awareness of scaled agile frameworks, including SAFe or LeSS
- Ability to work effectively in multi supplier environments or within a single team delivery model
- Proven leadership abilities, including mentoring and coaching team members
- Knowledge of containerisation and orchestration tools, such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Up to date cloud certifications are desirable
- Understanding of automation in development, testing, and operations, including CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows
This role is subject to pre employment screening in line with the UK Government's Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).
Preferred technical and professional experience
- Experience with Java & JavaScript frameworks, such as Spring Boot, React, Angular, and J2EE
- Familiarity with enterprise integration technologies (Kafka, MQ, IBM Streams, ESBs, ETL, etc.)
- Good understanding of enterprise level persistence technologies (Oracle, Postgres, DB2, NoSQL, Redis, Graph, etc.)
- Experience with estimation methods (top down, bottom up, planning poker, etc.)
- Familiarity with architectural languages or frameworks, such as UML, Zachman, or TOGAF
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.