Technical Architect | Outside IR35 | Remote
We are looking for a Lead Technical Architect to support a Discovery focused on developing a future case and incident management capability within a complex public sector environment. This role will suit an experienced architect who can operate across enterprise and solution architecture, bringing structure and technical direction to an early-stage programme.
The Role
You will lead the technical architecture workstream, working alongside enterprise and data architects and a wider multidisciplinary team. You will assess the existing technology landscape, explore potential future-state approaches and provide the technical evidence required to inform the next phase of delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Assess and document the current systems, integrations, data flows, dependencies and technical constraints.
- Ensure proposed approaches align with organisational architecture strategy, standards, governance and existing capabilities.
- Evaluate the feasibility of reusing, enhancing, purchasing or building technology solutions, including COTS products.
- Identify considerations relating to security, information governance, interoperability, resilience, scalability and wider non-functional requirements.
- Produce high-level architecture views, technical options and future-state hypotheses for validation during Alpha.
- Maintain technical risks, assumptions and dependencies while communicating findings clearly to senior stakeholders.
Essential
- Strong enterprise and solution architecture experience within large, complex organisations.
- Previous responsibility for leading architecture during Discovery or another early delivery phase.
- Ability to analyse complicated system, integration and data landscapes and turn findings into clear recommendations.
- Experience conducting build, buy and reuse assessments.
- Strong understanding of integration patterns, security, information governance, resilience and non-functional requirements.
- Experience working within multidisciplinary teams alongside enterprise architects, data architects, product managers, business analysts and service designers.
- Strong senior stakeholder management and influencing skills.
Desirable
- Extensive public sector experience.
- Experience within healthcare or public health environments.
- Knowledge of case management, incident response, alerting or coordinated operational-response platforms.
The Details
- Contract role - 6 months
- IR35 Status: Outside IR35
- Rate: up to £575p/d
- Location: Remote
If you are an experienced Technical Architect who can provide hands-on architecture leadership during a complex Discovery, please apply with your latest CV.