At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and lead technical architecture for Java/Spring Boot services in exciting public sector projects.
- Company: Join Methods, a leading IT consultancy transforming the public sector in the UK.
- Benefits: Enjoy remote work, competitive salary, wellness programmes, and generous time off.
- Other info: Collaborative culture with opportunities for professional growth and exciting project work.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on society while developing your skills in a supportive environment.
- Qualifications: Strong background in Java, Spring Boot, and cloud-hosted platforms required.
The predicted salary is between 67500 - 82500 £ per year.
About Methods: Methods is a 100M+ IT Services Consultancy who has partnered with a range of central government departments and agencies to transform the way the public sector operates in the UK. Established over 30 years ago and UK-based, we apply our skills in transformation, delivery, and collaboration from across the Methods Group, to create end-to-end business and technical solutions that are people-centred, safe, and designed for the future. Our human touch sets us apart from other consultancies, system integrators and software houses - with people, technology, and data at the heart of who we are, we believe in creating value and sustainability through everything we do for our clients, staff, communities, and the planet.
Overview: 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 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.
Requirements
- Architecture & Technical Leadership: 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.
- Java / Spring Boot Service Design: 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. 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. Support training, coaching and enabling teams to adopt consistent engineering practice.
- Technical Delivery Support: 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.
Skills
- Experience with Azure or AWS-hosted services.
- Knowledge of PostgreSQL or other relational databases.
- Experience with Kafka, Azure Service Bus or similar messaging technologies.
- Understanding of security assurance, threat modelling, RBAC, audit logging and data protection controls.
- 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.
Benefits
- Development access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme and training.
- Wellness 24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme.
- Social – Breakfast Tuesdays, Thirsty Thursdays and Pizza on the last Thursday of each month as well as commitment to charitable causes.
- Time off 25 days a year.
- Pension Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution.
- Discretionary Company Bonus based on company and individual performance.
- Life Assurance of 4 times base salary.
- Private Medical Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included).
- Worldwide Travel Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included).
Digital Technical Architect - Remote Working in London employer: Methods Consulting
As a Database Designer with us, you'll enjoy the flexibility of remote work while being part of a dynamic team that values your growth and contributions. Our supportive culture fosters collaboration and innovation, offering you opportunities to engage in impactful projects that make a difference in society. With comprehensive benefits including wellness programmes, generous leave, and professional development resources, we are committed to ensuring you thrive both personally and professionally.
