Software Architect

Senior Technical Architect | 12 Months | £575/day | Hybrid - 1 day per 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
• Cloud — AWS
• 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 Rate: £575 per day, inside IR35 Level: SFIA Level 5 Location: Newcastle, Birmingham, Leeds or Manchester — your choice of hub 1 day per 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.