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.