Application Architect

About the role

The Application Architect will define, govern, and evolve the enterprise application landscape to ensure that applications, integrations, data exchanges and technology choices align with business capabilities, digital strategy and target architecture. This role provides architectural direction for modernisation, solution design and portfolio rationalisation.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the application portfolio, architecture views, reference architectures and lifecycle roadmaps.
• Assess application fit, health, technical debt, duplication, integration dependencies and alignment to business capabilities.
• Define target‑state application architecture, rationalisation recommendations and transition roadmaps.
• Review solution designs, architecture documents and non‑functional requirements for compliance with EA principles and standards.
• Collaborate with solution, data, infrastructure, security and integration teams to ensure coherent end‑to‑end designs.
• Establish traceability between business capabilities, processes, applications, data entities, interfaces and technology components.
• Support application modernisation, cloud adoption, package selection and migration initiatives with architectural guidance.
• Contribute to architecture governance, design reviews, exceptions management, standards and EA repository quality.

Required profile

• Minimum 5 years of experience in application architecture, solution architecture, systems analysis/design or application portfolio management.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering or a related discipline.
• TOGAF certification required or strongly preferred; ArchiMate, cloud architecture, integration or ITIL certifications are advantageous.

Required skills

• Strong understanding of application architecture patterns, API‑led integration and service‑oriented design.
• Practical knowledge of TOGAF and ArchiMate for application‑layer modelling.
• Experience with enterprise application lifecycle management and modernisation.
• Familiarity with cloud architecture, security, data and integration considerations.
• ITIL knowledge and stakeholder‑management capabilities.