About this role
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements
- Experience with IBM and Linux
- Clear understanding of how technology solutions deliver non-functional requirements such as performance and availability
- Proven experience designing middleware and integration solutions, with technical depth in one or more relevant technologies
- Ability to translate non-functional requirements into resilient, scalable, recoverable, and observable architecture designs
- Experience developing technology roadmaps that address end-of-support risks, technical debt, and modernisation priorities
- Strong understanding of security-by-design principles, architectural standards, and technical risk management
- Ability to identify opportunities for automation, reusable design patterns, and platform standardisation
- Strong stakeholder communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, including the ability to translate technical decisions into clear business outcomes and actionable delivery requirements
Responsibilities
- Produce high-level designs for middleware architecture solutions
- Maintain the technology roadmap for middleware technologies in line with end-of-support dates
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, including Delivery, Engineering, and Operations
- Ensure new solutions conform to policies and standards and meet defined non-functional requirements for performance, scalability, availability, security, and manageability
- Identify, assess, and communicate technical risks to the Business and Operations
- Evaluate products for project and future use, and take responsibility for trialling new technologies
- Design and provide oversight for middleware solutions through the development life cycle, from bid and concept through architecture, design, build, test, and production delivery
Technologies
- ARM
- IBM
- Support
- Linux
- Security
- Architect
- C++
More
This is a four-month Middleware Engineer contract with an ASAP start, supporting our Systems and Platform Architecture team. The role is based across sites in Central London (Bank), Dunstable, and Harrogate, with work from home and onsite attendance once or twice a week; onsite attendance for PI Planning every couple of months is required. We are advertising this vacancy through ARM, a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy covering technical recruitment and resource solutions. We will not send a candidates CV without their permission. Any Outside IR35 status stated in the advertisement is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end client and may change.
last updated 46 week of 2026