Summary
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A 12-month Senior Technical Architect engagement supporting a live, cloud-native digital service as it scales toward full production. You will lead architecture across multiple workstreams, design and assure functional and non-functional solutions, and work closely with engineering teams.
Highlights
A 12-month architecture engagement on a live cloud-native digital service preparing for significant growth. The role provides broad architectural ownership, hands-on collaboration with engineering teams, and exposure to functional, non-functional, and scalability challenges.
Description
Senior Technical Architect | 12 Months | £575/day | Newcastle, Birmingham, Leeds or Manchester
A twelve month architecture role on a live, cloud native public sector digital service that is in Beta and about to scale hard.
No security clearance required.
BPSS only.
THE ROLE
You would provide architecture leadership across a distributed, cloud native service, working alongside the engineering teams rather than above them.
The service is live in Beta and preparing for significant growth, so the work splits three ways.
Delivering the remaining functional capability.
Getting the non functionals ready for large scale adoption.
And the architecture that lets it scale to full production.
You would work across multiple architecture workstreams rather than owning a single component.
WHAT YOU WOULD BE DOING
Architecture leadership across a distributed, cloud native serviceDesigning and assuring functional and non functional solutionsProducing architecture artefacts and supporting governanceDefining scalable, resilient service architecturesSupporting readiness for large scale adoption
ESSENTIAL
Technical architect, solution architect, or a hybrid of bothDesigning and delivering large scale digital services in cloud environmentsStrong understanding of Domain Driven DesignDistributed systems and event driven architecturesComfortable at strategic and technical levels, without hands on coding
THE STACK
Cloud — AWSBackend — Java, Spring Boot, REST APIsData and integration — Kafka, event driven architecture, MongoDB and NoSQLArchitecture — Domain Driven Design, microservices, distributed systems, solution assurance
ADVANTAGEOUS
Taking a service through Beta into large scale productionAuto scaling strategies, disaster recovery, support and operational modelsDefining non functional requirements
THE DETAILS
Rate: £575 per day, inside IR35
Level: SFIA Level 5 Location: Newcastle, Birmingham, Leeds or Manchester — your choice of hub Contract: 12 months
Start: As soon as available
Clearance: BPSS only.
No SC required
WHY THIS ONE
Twelve months rather than the usual six, and no clearance gate, which on public sector work of this kind is rare.
It is also a genuinely modern stack.
Kafka, event driven design, Domain Driven Design and AWS on a service that is about to go from Beta to full national scale.
If you have been doing this in fintech or retail and assumed government work meant legacy, this is the one that proves otherwise.
