Lead Application Architect

Licensed sponsor London IT Posted 2 days ago

About the role Bestway is modernising its application estate towards cloud-native architecture. We are looking for a hands-on Lead Application Architect to own application-level design, define our engineering standards, and introduce AI-assisted development practices across the team. You will sit between our Solution Architects, who define high-level designs, and the development team, who deliver them. You will turn HLDs into well-documented, implementable designs (Low-Level Design) and make su…

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London

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2 days ago

Occupation

SOC 2133 · IT business analysts, architects and systems designers

Going rate

£54,900 a year (£28.15/h)

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Eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship

Visa salary

£54,900 · new entrants £38,400

Typical UK pay

£60,288 median full-time

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