Applications Architect – Modernisation

Job Description

• Due to the customer requirements successful applicants must be eligible for high level UK Security clearance. Frequent travel to DXC & Customer sites.**
  
  

Role Summary

As part of our overall investment and growth strategy in the UK we are hiring experienced Application Architects to join our team.

• The Application Modernisation Architect is responsible for leading the transformation of legacy applications into modern, scalable, and cloud-native solutions. This role involves assessing existing systems, designing future-state architectures, and guiding development teams through the implementation of modern technologies and practices. The architect ensures alignment with business goals, technology standards, and security requirements.
• Over time you’ll have the opportunity to work on a wider range of assignments, e.g Software development, platform automation, applications management, across a broad portfolio of client from many sectors e.g., Public Sector, Health, Finance, Energy, Transport, Retail, and Manufacturing, encompassing a wider range of business challenges.
• You’ll thrive using agile methods and enjoy working collaboratively with business units and multidisciplinary teams.
• You’ll contribute to the digital transformation of an organization
  
  

Key Accountabilities And Responsibilities

• Assessment & Strategy:
• Evaluate legacy applications and infrastructure to identify modernisation opportunities.
• Develop modernisation roadmaps aligned with enterprise architecture and business strategy.
• Recommend appropriate cloud platforms, microservices architectures, and modernization patterns (e.g., rehost, refactor, rearchitect).
• Architecture & Design:
• Design scalable, resilient, and secure application architectures using modern technologies (e.g., containers, serverless, APIs).

Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF).

Agile certification

DXC Technology helps global companies run their mission critical systems and operations while modernizing IT, optimizing data architectures, and ensuring security and scalability across public, private and hybrid cloud environments. With decades of driving innovation, the world’s largest companies trust DXC to deploy the enterprise technology solutions to deliver new levels of performance, competitiveness, and customer experiences. Learn more about the DXC story and our focus on people, customers, and operational execution at www.dxc.technology

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As an award-winning, industry-leading, Technology firm we offer some of the best experiences for our employees and clients. We offer very competitive salaries coupled with an exciting benefits package including private medical insurance, gym membership discounts, pension contribution schemes and much more! We believe in nurturing an environment of continuous growth and development, with free training from our expansive upskilling library available to all our employees at any time.

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