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Methods

Technical Architect

Methods

Technical Architect supporting customer-specific delivery workstreams and wider digital transformation projects at Methods. Requires strong background in Java and Spring Boot.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudJavaMicroservicesSpringSpring BootSpringBoot

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • **Overview**** Methods is looking for an experienced Technical Architect with a strong Java and Spring Boot background to support customer-specific delivery workstreams and wider digital transformation projects.
  • The role requires hands-on architecture experience across modern service design, integration, cloud-hosted platforms and delivery governance. The successful candidate will help shape robust, maintainable and scalable services, working closely with engineering teams, delivery leads, product stakeholders and enterprise architecture functions to ensure technical decisions align with programme outcomes, GDS expectations and wider organisational standards.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • **Essential Skills & Experience**
  • - Strong experience as a Technical Architect or Lead Engineer within large public-sector, government or regulated environments.
  • - Strong background in Java and Spring Boot service design and delivery.
  • - Experience designing REST APIs, microservices and integration patterns.
  • - Good understanding of event-driven architecture, messaging and asynchronous processing.
  • - Experience with cloud-hosted platforms, CI/CD, monitoring and operational support patterns.
  • - Ability to define technical policy, governance frameworks and engineering best practice.
  • - Good understanding of information architecture, data flows and lifecycle management.
  • - Working knowledge of GDS Service Standard, public-sector delivery governance and secure design principles.
  • - Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, including presenting complex technical concepts clearly.
  • - Experience working with multidisciplinary agile delivery teams.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • **By joining us you can expect: **
  • - Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience
  • - Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society
  • - Strong, inspiring and thought-provoking leadership
  • - A supportive and collaborative environment.
  • **As well as this, we offer: **
  • - Development access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme and training
  • - Wellness 24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme
  • - Social – Breakfast Tuesdays, Thirsty Thursdays and Pizza on the last Thursday of each month as well as commitment to charitable causes
  • - Time off 25 days a year
  • - Pension Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution
  • - Discretionary Company Bonus based on company and individual performance
  • - Life Assurance of 4 times base salary
  • - Private Medical Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)
  • - Worldwide Travel Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)

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Hard Skills & Tools
JavaSpring BootREST APIsmicroservicesevent-driven architecturemessagingasynchronous processingCI/CDinformation architecturedata flows
Soft Skills
communicationstakeholder engagementpresenting complex technical conceptscollaborationleadership