Senior Technical Architect - Government, SC Clearance, API, Cloud First

Role: Senior Technical Architect

Contracting Authority: Public Sector

Contract Length: 6 Months

Location: Hybrid – National with regular visits to offices in London and Sheffield 

IR35: Inside

Pay Rate: Up to £745 per day

Clearance: SC Clearance

An exciting opportunity has become available with our prestigious client who is a prominent government department. The client is seeking an experienced Senior Technical Architect to join their welcoming team.

The Senior Technical Architect Role:

• Work with the Principal Technical Architects to define, maintain and own the technical strategy and roadmap for services of various sizes and complexity, defining how they integrate with other services and teams, and how they evolve over time
• Collaborate and find agreement with senior stakeholders, providing both technical and non-technical direction and challenge
• Guide technical teams, influence technical choices and seek out opportunities for digital transformation
• Undertake structured evaluations of technical concepts, translating this into technical designs that describe a solution
• Look for opportunities to collaborate and reuse common components, communicating with both technical and non-technical people
• Assure other services and system quality, ensuring the technical work fits into the broader strategy for the agency
• Align your team's work with the departmental and wider government technology strategy
• Support hiring, taking part in recruitment for both Technical Architects and other professions such as Software Developers
• Tech Stack
• Programming languages such as TypeScript/Node, Kotlin/Java
• AWS using infrastructure as code such as Terraform
• Container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes
• Public GitHub repositories for our work
• Modern development practices such as domain-driven design, test-driven development, continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Mac laptops plus other tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, AppInsights, GitHub Actions, CircleCI ect.

What Senior Technical Architect Will Need:

• API development/management
• Working across multiple teams
• Great communication skills
• Experience in a technical/solution architecture role and can act as a recognised technical expert to guide, critique and support teams in the delivery of outcomes
• Practical knowledge of modern cloud-first architectures, and how to build applications to take advantage of the opportunities they offer
• Experience of devising software architecture for multitier web solutions which typically include frontend and/or backend microservices, event-driven processing, API provision/consumption, databases, and pub/sub patterns
• Able to identify and mitigate security risks when designing and operating in a public cloud environment
• Experience of architecting digital services that align to a wider technical strategy that meets business needs
• Experience of making and guiding effective technical choices by understanding the trends and practices within the broader organisation
• Translates technical concepts between multidisciplinary teams and other stakeholders so they are understood by all. Expert at mediating and mending relationships and communicating with senior stakeholders

Minorities, women, LGBTQ+ candidates, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Interviews will take place this week, so please apply immediately to be considered for this exciting contract opportunity.