SC CLEARED Technical Architect - Fully Remote

Job Title:SC CLEARED Technical Architect - Fully Remote
Location: Fully remote - must be UK based
Salary/Rate: £454 per day inside IR35
Start Date: 07/04/2026
Job Type: Contract role - 6 months

Company Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our most exciting public sector clients!

They are seeking an experienced Senior Technical Architect to provide architectural leadership across digital services that enable both citizens and legal professionals to access and manage legal aid services.

You will work within multidisciplinary delivery teams and act as a senior technical partner, shaping architectural strategy, informing key technology decisions, and ensuring services are secure, scalable and aligned to government digital and technology standards. This position demands a strong blend of technical breadth, stakeholder engagement, and the ability to influence across organisational boundaries.This role requires clear communication, structured thinking, and the ability to articulate technical concepts to both specialist and non-specialist audiences. You will also support the development of the architecture community, providing guidance, mentorship, and technical leadership across teams.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

• Work with the Lead Technical Architect to define and maintain the long-term architectural roadmap for the digital systems.
• Ensure product and delivery teams follow strategic architectural principles, integration patterns, and technology direction.
• Maintain a holistic view of the end-to-end service ecosystem, identifying technical dependencies, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
• Explain complex architectural concepts in clear terms to senior stakeholders, enabling informed decision-making.
• Facilitate alignment between technical and business leaders, balancing strategic direction with delivery needs.
• Represent architecture in governance forums, supporting prioritisation, risk discussions, and assurance reviews.Create high-quality architectural artefacts including diagrams, data flows, integrations, future-state designs, and migration pathways.
• Evaluate technology options and assess impacts across infrastructure, data, security, and operational areas.
• Contribute to architectural patterns, principles, and standards to support consistency across the digital directorate.
• Provide expert oversight to ensure services are robust, secure, scalable, and maintainable.
• Mentor and coach architects, tech leads, and senior engineers, supporting capability development.
• Assist with recruitment and community-of-practice initiatives within the architecture and engineering functions.

Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:

• Significant experience as a technical or solution architect in complex digital or enterprise environments.
• Strong software engineering foundation, with practical knowledge of modern application architectures (e.g., microservices, APIs, distributed systems).
• Proven ability to design and document architectures using visual modelling techniques such as C4, UML, and data flow diagrams.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider, ideally AWS, including Infrastructure as Code, platform services, networking, and security controls.
• Deep understanding of secure and resilient system design, including authentication patterns, threat modelling, performance considerations, and observability.
• Familiarity with Ruby, Python, or Java, and modern development practices such as CI/CD, TDD, and containerisation.
• Experience guiding technology decisions, evaluating options, and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of data modelling, integration approaches, API design, messaging patterns, and interoperability challenges.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex topics and build consensus across diverse groups.
• Ability to work across the full delivery lifecycle, from discovery through implementation and service transition

Technical Environment

The assignment covers a diverse mix of modern cloud-native services and legacy enterprise platforms. Exposure to some of the following areas would be beneficial:

• Modern languages and frameworks including Ruby, Java, and Python
• AWS cloud services, Infrastructure as Code, platform as a service tooling
• Engineering practices such as DDD, TDD, CI/CD, automated testing and Git workflows
• Multi-tier platform strategies including centralised data and business logic layers
• Enterprise Oracle software including ERP components
• Mac-based development environments and public GitHub repositories

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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