Senior Technical Architect

Senior Technical Architect — Fully Remote — Inside IR35 — £575 per day
A UK central government programme is hiring a senior technical architect to work on digital credentials issued to citizens' phones, and to bring departmental services into a government mobile app.
Fully remote. SFIA 5.
The package
£575 per day
Inside IR35
Fully remote
BPSS, with SC eligibility required — no existing clearance needed
6 months initially, with strong extension potential
What you will do
Shape the technical architecture for common components supporting app-native journeys and digital credentials
Produce the high-level and low-level designs engineers build from
Initiate best-practice DevOps tooling and work with engineers to review how well it lands
Take the team's architecture through technical governance forums
Bring legacy, strategic and modern applications together into one set of journeys
Work across AWS, GCP and Azure
Work within strategic and enterprise architecture constraints
What you need
Significant experience under a technical or solution architect job title
Strong experience of working inside a UK government department — required
Experience of cross-department integration work — required
Authentication and authorisation design using OIDC, OAuth2 or SAML
Architecture across more than one public cloud — AWS, GCP and Azure are all in play
Experience of taking designs through a design authority or architecture review board
Digital credential standards such as OID4VC and mDoc are a strong advantage but are not expected — very few people have them yet.

Work arrangement
Yes