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.
Rate:
£575/day
Location:
Leeds
IR35 Status:
Inside
Remote Status:
Remote
Industry:
IT
Seniority Level:
Senior