Application Feature Architect (AWS, Distributed Systems)

TL;DR

Application Feature Architect (AWS, Distributed Systems): Designing and guiding the architecture of specific features within cloud-native, distributed systems with an accent on robust, scalable, and compliant solutions. Focus on applying AWS cloud-native principles, infrastructure automation, and ensuring performance and security for high-volume, low-latency applications.

Location: Onsite in Nottingham, UK

Company

hirify.global is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

What you will do

• Design and document feature-level architectures, ensuring alignment with overall application and solution architecture.
• Enforce architectural standards, security, and governance within feature scope.
• Collaborate with Solution Architects, Product Owners, and Business Analysts to translate business requirements into technical designs.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams on implementation best practices.
• Apply AWS cloud-native principles using services such as EKS, ECS, Lambda, RDS, and DynamoDB.
• Support infrastructure automation using Terraform and CI/CD pipelines via GitLab, contributing to performance and load testing.

Requirements

• Proven experience designing feature-level architectures within large-scale, distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services (EKS, ECS, Lambda, RDS, DocumentDB, ElasticSearch, SQS, S3, MemoryDB, Redis) and cloud-native principles.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines (GitLab).
• Proficiency in Java and Spring Boot; familiarity with Python, Node.js, and JavaScript.
• Front-end experience with Vue.js and modern JavaScript frameworks.
• Strong understanding of REST API design, messaging patterns, and data modelling, including SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Knowledge of authentication protocols (SAML, OIDC, OAuth2).

Nice to have

• Experience with distributed systems, high-volume applications, and low-latency APIs.
• Familiarity with performance testing and load testing.
• Understanding of financial services, risk management, and regulatory compliance.
• Knowledge of API gateway design and fault-tolerant architectures.

Culture & Benefits

• Be part of a dynamic organization of 25,000 people across 65 countries that values innovation and continuous improvement.
• Enjoy a collaborative and creative culture.
• Contribute to sustainability across the global business and partner with customers on their sustainability objectives.
• Benefit from tailored support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days, and wellbeing initiatives.
• Opportunity to get involved with the hirify.global Foundation's charitable grants for economic opportunities and financial independence.