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Natobotics

Java Microservices & AWS Cloud Architect

On site

London, United kingdom

Senior

Freelance

24-12-2025

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Skills

Communication Leadership Java CI/CD DevOps Docker Kubernetes Stakeholder Management Decision-making Networking Architecture AWS AWS Cloud Spring Hibernate Spring Boot CI/CD Pipelines Kafka Terraform Infrastructure as Code Microservices gRPC

Job Specifications

Contract Opportunity | Java Microservices & AWS Cloud Architect

London (Hybrid) | Banking Industry

⏳ 6-Month Contract |

We are looking for an experienced Java Microservices & AWS Cloud Architect to lead the design and delivery of large-scale, secure, and resilient cloud-native platforms for a leading banking client.

This role is ideal for a hands-on architect with deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, and AWS, who can drive architecture decisions while mentoring engineering teams in a highly regulated environment.

Key Responsibilities

Define end-to-end architecture for microservices, APIs, integrations, and data flows

Design AWS cloud architectures (multi-account, VPC, networking, security)

Drive non-functional requirements: scalability, availability, performance, resilience, DR

Provide hands-on technical leadership across Java/Spring Boot and microservices

Establish CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation)

Implement secure-by-design solutions (IAM, KMS, Secrets, OAuth2/OIDC)

Define observability and resilience strategies (logging, metrics, tracing, HA/DR)

Collaborate with Product, Security, SRE, and senior stakeholders

Required Skills & Experience

10+ years overall experience, with 4–6 years as a solution/technical architect

Java 11+/17, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, JPA/Hibernate

Microservices architecture (DDD, BFF, event-driven systems)

AWS: EKS/ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, MSK/Kinesis, ElastiCache, IAM, KMS, CloudWatch

DevOps & Cloud Native: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Terraform/CloudFormation

Messaging & integration: Kafka/MSK, SQS/SNS, REST/gRPC

Strong understanding of security, networking, and compliance in cloud environments

Banking Or Regulated-industry Experience Preferred

Soft Skills

Excellent communication and stakeholder management

Ability to mentor engineers and enforce best practices

Strong documentation and architectural decision-making skills

About the Company

Natobotics Ltd founded in 2012, provides boutique technology, digital customer experience, consulting and software development services. Over the years we had been supporting our clients in the areas of cloud transformation, Big data & Analytics, Digital Journey, Machine Learning and Platforms. Know more