Technical Architect

Lead Technical Architect — Fully Remote — Inside IR35 — £675 to £700 per day
A UK central government programme is hiring a lead technical architect to bring departmental services into a government mobile app, and to issue digital credentials into the government's own wallet. Fully remote. SFIA 6.
The package
£675 to £700 per day
Inside IR35
Fully remote
Clearance requirement and duration are being confirmed and will be shared before application
What you will do
Take accountability for the team progressing through technical governance forums
Influence at scale in a multi-department environment
Shape the technical architecture for common components supporting app-native journeys and digital credentials
Work within strategic and enterprise architecture constraints, and engage the wider architect community where the team needs to move outside them
Produce the high-level and low-level designs engineers build from
Bring legacy, strategic and central digital service applications together into one set of journeys
Initiate best-practice DevOps tooling and work with engineers to review how well it lands
What you need
Significant experience under a technical, solution or enterprise architect job title, at SFIA 6 level
Strong experience of working inside a UK government department — required
Experience of cross-department integration work — required
A track record of taking a team's architecture through a design authority and owning the outcome, not just presenting at it
Authentication and authorisation design using OIDC, OAuth2 or SAML
Architecture across more than one public cloud — AWS, GCP and Azure are all in play
Digital credential standards such as OID4VC and mDoc are a strong advantage but are not expected — very few people have them yet.

Work arrangement
No