Technical Architect
Posted 1 week ago by Brio Digital
£700 Per day
Inside
Remote
London
Summary: The Technical Architect role requires an experienced professional with essential NHS experience to lead the technical direction of a major digital programme. The position demands a blend of strategic oversight and hands-on involvement, focusing on architecture, engineering, and stakeholder management. The role is primarily remote with occasional travel to London, and it emphasizes strong Java and AWS expertise. The contract duration is six months with potential for extension.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and own the technical architecture across the programme, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned to NHS standards and frameworks
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams, setting direction on tooling, patterns, and best practice
- Design and oversee cloud infrastructure on AWS, ensuring high availability, performance, and security
- Drive Java-based development standards and architectural decisions across the codebase
- Engage with NHS stakeholders and third party suppliers to align technical approaches with programme requirements
- Identify and manage technical risk, producing documentation and recommendations to support governance and assurance processes
- Support technical onboarding of new team members and suppliers
- Contribute to technical planning, roadmaps, and delivery timelines
Key Skills:
- NHS experience is essential
- Strong Java and architecture background, with experience leading Java-based programmes at scale
- Deep AWS expertise across core services and well-architected principles
- Proven experience as a Technical Architect on complex digital programmes
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders
- Experience working within government or NHS security and compliance frameworks
- Comfortable working autonomously in a fully remote environment
Salary (Rate): £700/day
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Technical Architect - NHS experience is ESSENTIAL
Key Tech: Java & AWS
Day Rate £700/day - Inside IR35
Location Remote with occasional need in London (roughly 1x/quarter)
Duration 6 months (with view to extend)
ROLE DESCRIPTION
Brio Digital are supporting a consultancy on a major NHS digital programme and are looking for an experienced Technical Architect to play a key role in shaping and driving the technical direction of a complex, large-scale delivery. This is a senior position requiring someone who can operate confidently at both a strategic and hands-on level, bringing together architecture, engineering, and stakeholder management in a fast-paced NHS environment.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Define and own the technical architecture across the programme, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned to NHS standards and frameworks
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams, setting direction on tooling, patterns, and best practice
- Design and oversee cloud infrastructure on AWS, ensuring high availability, performance, and security
- Drive Java-based development standards and architectural decisions across the codebase
- Engage with NHS stakeholders and third party suppliers to align technical approaches with programme requirements
- Identify and manage technical risk, producing documentation and recommendations to support governance and assurance processes
- Support technical onboarding of new team members and suppliers
- Contribute to technical planning, roadmaps, and delivery timelines
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- NHS experience is essential
- Strong Java and architecture background, with experience leading Java-based programmes at scale
- Deep AWS expertise across core services and well-architected principles
- Proven experience as a Technical Architect on complex digital programmes
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders
- Experience working within government or NHS security and compliance frameworks
- Comfortable working autonomously in a fully remote environment
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