Software Architect

Senior Technical Architect | 12 Months | £600/day | Hybrid, 1 day a week | Newcastle, Birmingham, Leeds or Manchester

A twelve month architecture role on a live, cloud native public sector digital service that is in Beta and about to scale hard.

No security clearance required. BPSS only.

THE ROLE

You would provide architecture leadership across a distributed, cloud native service, working alongside the engineering teams rather than above them.

The service is live in Beta and preparing for significant growth, so the work splits three ways. Delivering the remaining functional capability. Getting the non functionals ready for large scale adoption. And the architecture that lets it scale to full production.

You would work across multiple architecture workstreams rather than owning a single component.

WHAT YOU WOULD BE DOING

Architecture leadership across a distributed, cloud native service

Designing and assuring functional and non functional solutions

Producing architecture artefacts and supporting governance

Defining scalable, resilient service architectures

Supporting readiness for large scale adoption

ESSENTIAL

Technical architect, solution architect, or a hybrid of both

Designing and delivering large scale digital services in cloud environments

Strong understanding of Domain Driven Design

Distributed systems and event driven architectures

Comfortable at strategic and technical levels, without hands on coding

THE STACK

Backend — Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs

Data and integration — Kafka, event driven architecture, MongoDB and NoSQL

Architecture — Domain Driven Design, microservices, distributed systems, solution assurance

ADVANTAGEOUS

Taking a service through Beta into large scale production

Auto scaling strategies, disaster recovery, support and operational models

Defining non functional requirements

THE DETAILS

Location: Newcastle, Birmingham, Leeds or Manchester, your choice of hub, 1 day a week

Contract: 12 months

Start: As soon as available

Clearance: BPSS only. No SC required

WHY THIS ONE

Twelve months rather than the usual six, and no clearance gate, which on public sector work of this kind is rare.

It is also a genuinely modern stack. Kafka, event driven design, Domain Driven Design and AWS on a service that is about to go from Beta to full national scale. If you have been doing this in fintech or retail and assumed government work meant legacy, this is the one that proves otherwise.