Technical Architect - Remote - 6months rolling

Job Title: Technical Architect Location: Remote with 1-2 days onsite per month at Government Technical Hubs Contract Type: 6-month rolling contract Inside IR35: Yes Day Rate: £600 per day Clearance: BPSS (Baseline Personnel Security Standard) check required

Role Overview

An experienced Technical Architect is required to lead the design and oversight of complex technical solutions within a large central government transformation programme. This role provides strategic technical direction across multiple products and platforms, ensuring all solutions align with organisational objectives, architectural standards, and governance frameworks.

Key Responsibilities

• Architectural design and assurance across multiple systems, services, and delivery teams.
• Set the strategic technical direction, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and long-term goals.
• Support technical governance and chair or contribute to architectural decision-making forums.
• Define and promote architecture principles, patterns, and standards across the organisation.
• Act as a technical advisor, providing expert guidance to stakeholders, delivery leadership, and cross-functional teams.
• Work closely with data, solution, and security architects to ensure end-to-end coherence of technical designs.
• Oversee the evaluation of emerging technologies and contribute to continuous improvement across digital services.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven experience as a Technical Architect or equivalent within large-scale or government transformation programmes.
• Strong background in solution and enterprise architecture, with demonstrable design leadership across complex systems.
• Proficiency in cloud architecture (eg, AWS, Azure, or GCP) and modern engineering practices such as microservices, APIs, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Sound understanding of security, interoperability, and performance considerations in public sector environments.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders and technical teams.
• Familiarity with government technology standards (eg, GDS, architectural governance, Service Manual) is advantageous.

If you are available and interested in this opportunity, please apply for further information. Please note due to high volumes of applications we are unable to contact every application. If you do not hear back from us within 7 days of sending your application, please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion.

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• Proven experience as a Technical Architect or equivalent within large-scale or government transformation programmes.
• Strong background in solution and enterprise architecture, with demonstrable design leadership across complex systems.
• Proficiency in cloud architecture (eg, AWS, Azure, or GCP) and modern engineering practices such as microservices, APIs, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Sound understanding of security, interoperability, and performance considerations in public sector environments.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders and technical teams.
• Familiarity with government technology standards (eg, GDS, architectural governance, Service Manual) is advantageous.