Application Architect

Join our Risk Intelligence Engineering organization as an Application Architect. In this key technical role, you will contribute to the architecture and technical direction of applications and services within the World-Check One platform. You will work closely with Solution Architects, Product Owners, and engineering teams to translate business and non-functional requirements into robust, scalable designs. The environment is cloud-native and distributed, supporting high-volume, low-latency workloads with strong security, reliability, and governance requirements.

• Contribuer à l'architecture et à la direction technique des applications et des services au sein de la plateforme World-Check One.
• Traduire les exigences commerciales et non fonctionnelles en conceptions architecturales robustes et évolutives, tout en garantissant l'alignement avec les normes architecturales.
• Agir en tant que point de référence technique reconnu pour les équipes de développement travaillant sur les applications World-Check One.
• Sound understanding of security, authentication, and authorisation concepts
• Solid experience with Java and Spring Boot in production environments
• Working knowledge of containerised architectures, messaging patterns, and distributed data stores
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non‑technical audiences
• Ability to influence technical decisions and collaborate effectively across teams
• Strong understanding of backend application design, API design, and data modelling
• Experience working in an application architecture or senior engineering role within distributed systems
• Practical experience designing and operating AWS‑based applications in a cloud‑native environment
• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code concepts and modern CI/CD practices
• Curious, proactive, and committed to building high‑quality, sustainable systems
• Familiarity with modern front‑end architectures and integration patterns
• Experience optimising performance, resilience, and cost in production cloud environments
• Confident operating in complex environments with competing priorities
• Understanding of performance, scalability, and resilience engineering
• Pragmatic architectural thinker with strong engineering fundamentals
• Collaborative and influential, able to guide teams through technical expertise
• Experience working in financial services, risk, compliance, or other regulated environments
• Deeper exposure to event‑driven architectures and asynchronous messaging at scale
• Comfortable working across technical and business stakeholders
• Hands‑on experience building or evolving CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure using IaC tools
• Awareness of observability practices such as metrics, logging, and distributed tracing
• Career Stage: Senior Associate