Lead Technical Architect - SC

Project overview

Job Title: Lead Technical Architect - SC

Project details

30/4/27

£990/day (Umbrella)

IR35 Status: Inside IR35

Security Clearance: SC

Minimum Requirement:

Key Responsibilities

AI buildout, establishing secure Cloud Landing Zones and technology-agnostic integration layers that bridge enterprise AI software with custom-built tools.

Essential Criteria (Skills, Knowledge & Experience)

Disability Confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, CLIENT guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Armed Forces Covenant

CLIENT is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses/partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates/military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

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• Requires
• A proven track record of multi cloud architecture expertise
• Google Cloud experience
• Expertise in configuring VPC service controls
• Must have a focus on security and be familiar with cloud platforms
• AI Architecture Strategy & Vision: Define architectural roadmaps and principles for the
• Technical Design throughout the Lifecycle: Create modular, scalable cloud and microservice architectures capable of supporting complex AI workflows, setting technical design standards across the project lifecycle.
• Architectural Decisions & AI Guardrails: Make high-impact design decisions to manage architectural risk, designing mandatory human-in-the-loop approval gates, identity federation, and AI safety baselines (such as prompt protection and PII masking).
• Governance & Assurance: Lead architectural governance for AI systems, steering solutions through formal Technical Design Authority (TDA), Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA), and cyber security checkpoints.
• Architecture Communication & Strategic Leadership: Articulate complex architectural trade-offs, security postures, and risk models to senior leadership while coaching delivery teams and aligning delivery partners.
• Enterprise Cloud Architecture: Significant experience leading cloud platform architecture (GCP/AWS), secure Cloud Landing Zones, Identity and Access Management (IAM) hierarchies, and microservices design for complex enterprise environments.
• AI Guardrails & Perimeter Defence: Hands-on experience designing deterministic AI safety controls, including human-in-the-loop approval gates, VPC Service Controls, identity federation (WIF, Entra ID), and privacy/PII masking baselines.
• Strategic & Technical Design Leadership: Expertise in both strategic and technical design, with a proven track record of designing modular components and services and defining how they interoperate seamlessly to deliver intended end-to-end service outcomes.
• Technology-Agnostic Systems Integration: Proven ability to architect modular, vendor-neutral software systems and API layers that seamlessly connect core enterprise platforms into central AI and workflow backbones.
• Architectural Assurance & Governance: Strong understanding of central government architectural governance, with proven experience navigating Technical Design Authority (TDA) sign-offs, DPIA assessments, and cyber security/NCSC standards.
• Architecture Communication & Leadership: Ability to communicate complex technical designs and risk models to stakeholders, mediate difficult architectural decisions, and provide coaching to engineers and architects.
• Start: flexible
• Duration: 30/4/27
• Location: London, UK, GB
• Rate: 113-124 EUR/h