AWS Solution Architect - Public sector - £650 per day

Project overview

Solution Architect - AWS - Policing & Public Safety - £650 per day - Remote

Project details

£650 per day, inside IR35

Contract: 6 months

ASAP

London office but predominantly remote based

Vetting: SC clearance and NPPV3 required

Help shape digital services supporting policing

We are looking for an experienced, hands-on Solution Architect to join a central architecture function supporting a portfolio of digital products and services for policing.

This role puts you close to engineering and delivery, working across application architecture, integration, cloud infrastructure and solution design. You will collaborate with Product Managers, Delivery Managers, Engineers and fellow Architects to turn complex requirements into practical, secure and deliverable solutions.

What you'll be doing

What you'll bring

Particularly valuable experience

Who this role will suit

You're a technically strong architect who enjoys getting into the detail: how applications are structured, how services integrate, and how solutions are built, deployed and operated in AWS.

Your experience should extend beyond enterprise architecture, governance and high-level documentation. You'll be comfortable constructively challenging designs, reducing unnecessary complexity and helping delivery teams find a pragmatic way forward.

SC clearance and NPPV3 are required for this role.

To apply, please submit your CV highlighting your relevant architecture, policing systems and AWS experience.

This temporary contract is inside IR35 and will require working under the direction of the client delivery manager as part of a multi-disciplinary team. The successful candidate will follow established delivery processes and working practices.

This role requires the successful candidate to undergo and be eligible for UK Security Vetting at SC/DV level. Clearance sponsorship will be provided where required. Due to the nature of the work, candidates should meet the relevant residency requirements. If applicable, reserved post nationality restrictions will be confirmed by the client. Damia is committed to inclusive recruitment and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.

Due to the secure nature of the position and working environment, you must have, or be eligible to obtain Security Clearance

United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK

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Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and ability to perform the duties of the job.

Should the role require the successful candidate to undergo and be eligible for UK Security Vetting. Clearance sponsorship will be provided where required. Due to the nature of the work, candidates should meet the relevant residency requirements. If applicable, Reserved Post nationality restrictions will be confirmed by the client. Damia is committed to inclusive recruitment and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.

Damia Group is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy and in accordance to Conduct Regulations 2003.

• Develop and maintain solution and application architectures across multiple digital products and services.
• Translate business and technical requirements into clear designs, evaluating options and explaining trade-offs.
• Shape integrations using APIs, events and data flows across products, shared services and external systems.
• Support AWS solution design, covering security, resilience, scalability, availability and operational support.
• Work with engineering teams on DevOps, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code approaches, including Terraform.
• Define non-functional requirements and address architectural risks, dependencies and technical debt.
• Provide architectural direction from discovery through development, deployment and live operation.
• Communicate design decisions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong Solution Architect experience in complex digital delivery environments associated with national policing systems.
• Architecture delivery experience in one or more of the following: government, policing, law enforcement, public safety, large-scale security-sensitive services, or business-critical modernisation and cloud migration programmes.
• Strong application architecture and solution design experience across multiple products or services.
• Experience with APIs, microservices, event-driven integration and cloud-native patterns.
• An understanding of how application architecture, infrastructure and software engineering fit together.
• Experience working directly with software engineers, technical leads, DevOps specialists and delivery teams.
• The ability to turn evolving requirements into practical designs without unnecessarily constraining engineering teams.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, communication and technical problem-solving skills.
• Practical AWS architecture and infrastructure design.
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing and deployment pipelines.
• Containerisation and orchestration technologies.
• API management, integration architecture and architecture modelling tools.
• Previous work directly relating to LEDS.
• Start: ASAP
• Duration: 6 months +
• Location: London, UK, GB
• Rate: 75-81 EUR/h