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Solutions Architect - Backend Platforms - Java - Microservices - Hybrid (London)
6 month contract - £700/day Inside IR35
About the Role
We're partnering with a major entertainment organisation to find a Solutions Architect to join a verticalized engineering and architecture pillar. You'll be working at the heart of large-scale backend platforms that power products used by millions of customers across the UK and beyond.
What You'll Be Doing
- Designing and architecting scalable, distributed backend solutions across API and event-based services at very large scale
- Working hands-on with Kafka and Pub/Sub event-driven architectures
- Leading on performance, resiliency, and scalability
- Bridging product requirements and engineering realities
- Contributing to Big Data pipelines and data-at-scale architecture decisions
- Driving personalisation platform development, ensuring real-time, customer-centric experiences
- Working with CMS platforms and ensuring content architecture aligns with engineering best practice
- Championing microservices patterns and supporting teams in decomposing complex systems
- Integrating ML and LLM capabilities into product contexts
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What We're Looking For
- A technically hands-on backend architect
- 5 years in an architecture role, having come through a hands-on engineering or analyst background
- Deep expertise in API-based and event-driven architectures (Kafka, Pub/Sub) at high volume and scale
- Laser focus on performance, resiliency, and scalability
- Strong JVM-based stack experience
- AWS depth is essential; GCP exposure is a useful bonus
- Experience with personalisation engines and/or CMS platforms at scale
- Strong knowledge of Big Data technologies (e.g. Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, or similar)
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