Database & Application Architect – 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

AND Digital

Database & Application Architect supporting a critical phase of a large-scale infrastructure and application migration programme, ensuring operational stability across enterprise environments.

Posted 7/14/2026contractBristol • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and optimizing enterprise-scale database and application architectures, with a strong focus on application performance analysis, migration readiness, and data integrity across distributed environments.

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Enterprise-Scale Database Architecture DesignApplication Performance AnalysisDatabase Replication TechnologiesMigration Readiness ValidationAnalytical and Troubleshooting Skills

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Hard Skills

Database Configuration ReviewApplication Dependency MappingPerformance Metrics AnalysisHigh-Volume Data ReplicationData Consistency Validation

Soft Skills

Analytical SkillsMethodical ApproachCollaboration Across Teams

Industry Keywords

Audit ConsiderationsGovernanceComplianceMigration ProgrammesOperational Readiness

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Review Solaris and database configurations to ensure the target environment accurately reflects the current production estate.
Analyse application performance and workload metrics from development and testing environments to identify unexpected latency trends or performance bottlenecks.
Validate application dependency mappings to ensure all remaining monolithic workloads are fully understood and no active dependencies remain on on-premise infrastructure prior to migration.
Verify the stability, synchronisation and integrity of high-volume database replication streams supporting business-critical applications.
Work with technical stakeholders to identify and mitigate migration risks before production cutover.
Provide architectural guidance and recommendations to optimise application performance, resilience and operational readiness throughout the migration programme.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong experience designing and optimising enterprise-scale database and application architectures.
Experience reviewing database configurations to validate production parity and identify configuration drift.
Proven ability to analyse application and infrastructure performance metrics, identifying latency, throughput and resource bottlenecks.
Experience validating complex application dependency maps and ensuring successful migration readiness.
Strong understanding of database replication technologies, synchronisation processes and data consistency across distributed environments.
Experience validating high-volume data replication for business-critical applications.
Knowledge of audit, governance and compliance considerations relating to database replication and data integrity.
Ability to work across infrastructure, application, platform and delivery teams to coordinate technical readiness.
Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with a methodical approach to root cause analysis.
Experience supporting large-scale migration, transformation or modernisation programmes within enterprise environments.

Benefits

Comp & perks

25 days bookable holiday + flexible Bank Holidays
Pension: 6% of salary paid by AND Digital with a further 2% paid by you (can be increased by choice).
Aviva healthcare cover (including pre-existing condition cover) for you.
Flexibenefit: £1000 assigned to you via our benefits portal to select or upgrade the benefits that suit you the most. Any unused allowance from the £1000 can be taken as cash.
Life Assurance.
Income Protection.
Eye test + first pair of glasses.
Parental Benefits: Generous Enhanced Maternity and Enhanced Partner (Paternity) Leave.