Job description
Project overview
Job Title: Technical Architect
Project details
£625 (Inside IR35)
12 Months
Remote with 2 days onsite per month in Newcastle
Clearance: BPSS
Key Responsibilities
Essential Skills & Experience
- Design end-to-end technical architectures for large-scale, mission-critical systems.
- Provide architectural leadership across multiple delivery teams.
- Ensure solutions align with GDS, and cross-government standards.
- Define and document architecture using appropriate frameworks and tooling.
- Lead technical decision-making, including trade-offs and risk assessments.
- Collaborate with stakeholders including product managers, delivery leads, and security teams.
- Oversee system integration across Legacy and modern platforms.
- Ensure compliance with security, data protection, and governance requirements.
- Support cloud adoption and migration strategies (primarily AWS/Azure).
- Conduct architecture reviews and provide assurance across programmes.
- Proven experience as a Technical Architect within large-scale government or regulated environments.
- Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure).
- Experience designing microservices and distributed systems.
- Expertise in API design, integration patterns, and event-driven architecture.
- Solid understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code.
- Familiarity with security standards (eg, ISO 27001, NCSC guidelines).
- Experience with Legacy system modernisation.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to work in agile delivery environments (Scrum/Kanban).
- Start: ASAP
- Duration: 12 months
- Location: United Kingdom, GB
- Rate: 78-78 EUR/h
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