SC Cleared Senior Technical Architect Contract

Role:                     SC Cleared Senior Technical Architect

Location:            Hybrid – 2 /3 days onsite with national travel including London & Sheffield

Length:                6 Months

Rate:                     Market Rates (Inside IR35)

Working on a key digital transformation project that will centralise and improve data quality.

Responsibilities:

• Work with the Principal Technical Architects to define, maintain and own the technical strategy and roadmap for services of various sizes and complexity.
• Collaborate and find agreement with senior stakeholders
• 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 technology strategy
• Support hiring, taking part in recruitment for both Technical Architects and other professions such as Software Developers

Skills Required:

• 5 years + experience working in a technical / solution architecture role. Can act as a technical expert to guide, critique and support teams in delivery of outcomes.
• Practical working knowledge of modern cloud-first architectures and how to build applications.
• Experience of devising software architecture for multi-tier web solutions, which include frontend and / or backend microservices, event-driven processing, API provision / consumption, databases.
• Experience of architecting digital services that align to a wider technical strategy
• Must have a proven background in API development / management coupled with experience of working across multiple teams.
• Programming languages such as TypeScript/Node, Kotlin/Java.
• AWS using infrastructure as code such as Terraform.
• Container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
• Modern development practices such as domain-driven design, test-driven development, continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Knowledge of tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, AppInsights, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, and more
• Able to identify and mitigate security risks when designing and operating in a public cloud environment

Candidates must hold or be willing to undergo SC Clearance.