Technical Architect at SR2, London, £Contract Rate

Technical Architect

Outside IR35 | Remote based | Rate DOE | 6 months

SR2 is supporting a major public sector digital programme seeking two experienced Technical Architects to help shape and deliver large-scale cloud-native platforms and services within a highly secure, data-driven environment. This is a hands-on architecture role suited to consultants who can operate across strategy, solution design and engineering enablement, working closely with delivery teams to modernise complex systems and improve operational resilience.

Overview:

You'll be responsible for defining technical architectures across multiple workstreams, supporting engineering teams with best practice and ensuring solutions are secure, scalable and aligned to wider enterprise standards. The environment is heavily cloud-focused, with modern DevOps practices, containerised workloads and API-led integration patterns playing a central role.

The successful candidates will work closely with developers, DevOps engineers, security teams and senior stakeholders to guide technical direction, support delivery and help solve complex integration and platform challenges.

Responsibilities:

• Design and govern scalable cloud-native architectures across complex digital services
• Produce high and low-level technical designs, architecture decision records and integration patterns
• Support delivery teams with engineering best practice and architectural guidance
• Define secure-by-design solutions in regulated and highly governed environments
• Drive adoption of modern DevOps, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code approaches
• Work across microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures and container platforms
• Collaborate with security, infrastructure and delivery teams to ensure operational resilience and scalability
• Support technical assurance, governance and stakeholder engagement activities

Requirements:

• Strong experience operating as a Technical Architect within large-scale enterprise or public sector environments
• Deep understanding of AWS cloud services and cloud-native architecture principles
• Experience designing microservices and API-led architectures
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes/container platforms such as EKS or OpenShift
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation
• Understanding of CI/CD tooling and DevOps delivery practices
• Experience designing secure systems within regulated or high-security environments
• Strong stakeholder engagement and technical leadership skills
• Knowledge of networking, identity/access management and platform security principles
• Gov experience

Please apply with a copy of your CV and Emma from SR2 will contact potential candidates regarding next steps.