Pre Sales Application Architect

United Kingdom

6/30/2025

Job Description

Pre Sales Application Architect

Location: Basingstoke/Bracknell. Occasional travel may be required. No remote working possible.

Our purpose is to make the world more sustainable by building trust in society through innovation. As an Infrastructure Architect you will contribute to this by utilising energy efficient hardware and designing solutions that reduce energy use such as the use of virtualisation and efficient data management techniques and by implementing green software engineering principles.

You will be responsible for the creation of design artefacts that enable the provision of Applications using industry standard methodologies. You will work closely with Solution Owners and Project Managers to ensure that solutions are in-line with approved designs and meet the customer requirements.

If you have a handful of the below skills / experience we would love to discuss this role with you further.

Transferable Skills And Experience

General

• Design Modelling, ideally with Archimate (BizzDesign preferred)
• Requirements Modelling / Capture techniques such as User Stories and Use Cases.
• AWS General / Usage
• Azure Cloud General / Usage
• VMWare General/Usage
• Technical Leadership & Design
• DevSecOps tooling and practices
• Application Security Testing
• SAFe (scaled agile) Processes
  
  

Data Integration Focused

• Data Pipeline Orchestration, and ELT tooling such as Apache Airflow, Apark, NiFi, Airbyte and Singer.
• Message Brokers, streaming data processors, such as Apache Kafka
• Object Storage, such as S3, MinIO, LakeFS
• CI/CD Pipeline, Integration, ideally Azure DevOps
• Python Scripting
• API Management Solutions
  
  

Automation Key Skills

Experience in the Design / Configuration / Usage in a number of the following –

• Low-code Platforms, such as Power Platform, Appian, UiPath, Blue Prism
• RPA and Automation solutions
• Experience in Business Process Analysis
• Software, Applications, APIs
  
  

Apps Design And Integration Key Skills

Experience in the Design / Configuration / Usage in a number of the following –

• Software / API / Web Design and Development
• Database Design and Data Modelling
• Architectural Patterns such as OO, Cloud-native and Microservices.
• Automated Test tooling, ideally Selenium / Robot Framework
  
  

DevSecOps Key Skills

Experience in the Design / Configuration / Usage in a number of the following –

• CI/CD Pipelines, ideally Azure DevOps
• IaC code tooling, including Terraform, Ansible, Harbor
• SCA/IAST/DAST tooling, e.g. Black Duck, Coverity, Codesight, JFrog, Snyk
• Automated Test tooling, ideally Selenium / Robot Framework
• Test Management Tooling ideally Azure Test Plans
• Secure Secrets Management, ideally Azure DevOps and Hashicorp Vault
  
  

This role will require you to become security cleared to a high level. Please visit National security vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note: It’s still worth applying even if you do not meet all the requirements above. We are passionate about investing in you and your career and if you have the transferable skills/ background in Pre Sales Application Architect this could be the next opportunity for you.

Your Benefits

25 Days annual leave plus public holidays (3 flexible)

Pension – Double matching contributions of up to 10%

Life assurance

Companywide incentive plans

Your choices (Flexible benefits such as increased holidays / travel / dental critical illness and more)

Perks at work – employee discounts

Employee assistance programme / virtual GP

Recruitment process

The recruitment process consists of two stages of interviews.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Email [email protected] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

Achieve together

We are recognised as a responsible and inclusive employer: Not only are we a certified Disability Confident Leader, a Times Top 50 employer for Gender Equality, a Top 75 employer for Social Mobility, accredited with the Living Wage Foundation and a signatory for the Race at Work Charter, but we are also committed to the United Nations standards for LGBTI+ and a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.

We are people centric: Our hybrid work environments enable you to Be Completely You. Our active people-led Inclusive Community networks are representative of all aspects of diversity and are instrumental in enabling and supporting our innovative approach to inclusion

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