Lead Technical Architect | Outside IR35 | Remote

The Role

You will lead the technical architecture workstream, working alongside enterprise and data architects and a wider multidisciplinary team.

You will assess the existing technology landscape, explore potential future-state approaches and provide the technical evidence required to inform the next phase of delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess and document the current systems, integrations, data flows, dependencies and technical constraints.
• Ensure proposed approaches align with organisational architecture strategy, standards, governance and existing capabilities.
• Evaluate the feasibility of reusing, enhancing, purchasing or building technology solutions, including COTS products.
• Identify considerations relating to security, information governance, interoperability, resilience, scalability and wider non-functional requirements.
• Produce high-level architecture views, technical options and future-state hypotheses for validation during Alpha.
• Maintain technical risks, assumptions and dependencies while communicating findings clearly to senior stakeholders.

Essential

• Strong enterprise and solution architecture experience within large, complex organisations.
• Previous responsibility for leading architecture during Discovery or another early delivery phase.
• Ability to analyse complicated system, integration and data landscapes and turn findings into clear recommendations.
• Experience conducting build, buy and reuse assessments.
• Strong understanding of integration patterns, security, information governance, resilience and non-functional requirements.
• Experience working within multidisciplinary teams alongside enterprise architects, data architects, product managers, business analysts and service designers.
• Strong senior stakeholder management and influencing skills.

Desirable

• Extensive public sector experience.
• Experience within healthcare or public health environments.
• Knowledge of case management, incident response, alerting or coordinated operational-response platforms.

The Details

• Contract role - 6 months
• IR35 Status: Outside IR35
• Rate: up to £575p/d
• Location: Remote