Technical Architect (Cloud-native/Serverless, AWS, TypeScript)
Posted 1 day ago by SmartSourcing Ltd
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
Hybrid, UK
Summary: The Lead Technical Architect role focuses on hands-on technical leadership within a delivery-oriented engineering team, emphasizing the development of internal platforms and tooling for developers. The position requires a strong engineering background, with responsibilities including coding and architectural design, particularly in cloud-native and serverless solutions on AWS. This role is not suited for those with an Enterprise Architect background, as it demands a more technical approach. Candidates should be comfortable communicating architectural visions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
- Hands-on technical leadership and architectural design
- Building internal developer platforms and tooling
- Working directly with engineers, contributing production-quality code
- Designing and delivering cloud-native, serverless solutions on AWS
- Communicating architectural vision clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Key Skills:
- Strong experience writing production code using JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, AWS CDK
- Extensive AWS experience, particularly large, multi-account serverless architectures
- Good knowledge of web-based authentication systems (OAuth/OIDC)
- Deep understanding of modern cloud-native and serverless concepts
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Desirable - AWS Certification (nice to have but not essential)
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Manchester
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Lead Technical Architect - AWS | Serverless | OAuth/OIDC | Node.js | JavaScript/TypeScript | AWS CDK
Location: Hybrid - Flexible, ideally 2 days per week in Manchester with occasional travel to other sites
Rate: £Please Quote per day (Inside IR35)
Duration: 6 months
Security Clearance: SC Cleared or eligible to undergo clearance
Role Overview
We are looking for a Lead Technical Architect to join a delivery-focused engineering team. This is a hands-on role, suited to someone with a strong engineering background who is comfortable writing code and working closely with developers.
This position is more technical than a standard architect role, and is not suited to an Enterprise Architect.
You will be responsible for working with engineering teams to build internal platforms and tooling that developers use to deliver services at scale.
Key Responsibilities
Hands-on technical leadership and architectural design
Building internal developer platforms and tooling
Working directly with engineers, contributing production-quality code
Designing and delivering cloud-native, serverless solutions on AWS
Communicating architectural vision clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Required Experience Skills
Strong experience writing production code using:JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, AWS CDK
Extensive AWS experience, particularly large, multi-account serverless architectures
Good knowledge of web-based authentication systems (OAuth/OIDC)
Deep understanding of modern cloud-native and serverless concepts (Essential)
Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
Desirable - AWS Certification (nice to have but not essential).
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