Technical Architect -PHP-based architecture

Application / Technical Architect (Legacy PHP Modernization)

Location: London - Hybrid/Onsite

We’re looking for an architect who still loves to build.

You’ll lead the evolution of a legacy PHP landscape—redesigning architecture, modernizing code and databases, and scaling performance—while staying hands‑on across development, migration, and operations. If you can balance near‑term delivery with a long‑term platform vision, we’d love to talk.

What you’ll do

• Own the target architecture for a legacy PHP‑based system and set the modernization roadmap.
• Refactor legacy PHP and introduce modern frameworks (Laravel/Symfony/Zend where appropriate).
• Rationalize database logic : analyze, refactor, and optimize stored procedures; decouple app ↔ DB.
• Design secure, high‑performance APIs and drive application & database performance tuning.
• Ship code : contribute ...