At a Glance
- Tasks: Shape technical architecture for digital credentials and app-native journeys.
- Company: Join a UK central government programme with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Earn £575 per day, fully remote work, and strong extension potential.
- Other info: Opportunity to work across AWS, GCP, and Azure in a dynamic environment.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on citizens' digital experiences while working remotely.
- Qualifications: Significant experience as a technical architect in UK government required.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
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.
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