Senior Technical Architect | Integration & Event-Driven | Up to £700/day inside IR35 | Remote
THE ROLE
A central government programme needs a Senior Technical Architect. The integration specialism is what decides it, not the general architecture list underneath.
THE INTEGRATION SPECIALISM — this is the seat
- Event-based architecture design and patterns, including pub-sub and data streaming
- Modelling techniques, tools and standards for event architecture
- Across multiple domains in private data centres and public clouds, not one or the other
- Microservice and API-led architecture
- Integration design tools, techniques and best practice
THE TECHNICAL GROUND
- AWS as the platform. This account is AWS heavy throughout
- EventBridge, SNS and SQS, MSK or Kinesis, Kafka, Confluent, Kafka Connect, RabbitMQ or ActiveMQ
- Schema registry, ordering guarantees, idempotency, replay and dead letter handling
- API Gateway, contract-first design, versioning, REST and asynchronous patterns
- Lambda, Step Functions, ECS or EKS
- Transit Gateway or Direct Connect, and hybrid connectivity across both sides of an estate
THE STANDARD LIST
- Architecture design across on-prem, cloud and hybrid covering networking, security, presentation, middleware, database and integration
- Principles, patterns, technical radars, practices and standards
- Working with delivery teams across agile, waterfall and hybrid, concept to go-live
- Translating business requirements into technical solutions with traceability you can demonstrate
- Architecture modelling techniques and tools
WHAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR
- UK central government delivery, and ideally longer tenures rather than a run of short stints
- SC eligible
- Held Senior Technical Architect or equivalent at SFIA 5
- Evidence of the hybrid estate, not just one cloud
THE DETAILS
Rate: Up to £700 per day inside IR35 for an exceptional candidate
Level: SFIA 5
Clearance: BPSS
Location: Remote, with infrequent travel to Newcastle. Where you live does not matter much Contract: To 31 March 2027 with extension highly likely
Start: As soon as available
WHY THIS ONE
The last person in this seat won it on one line of their CV: a hundred and three applications out of seven European data centres into public cloud on a single programme. If you have only ever worked one side of that divide, this will be a hard sift. If you have worked both, there are not many of you and this is worth a conversation.
Senior Technical Architect - Integration in Newcastle upon Tyne employer: AGNTX
As a Software Architect with us, you'll be part of a forward-thinking team that values innovation and collaboration in a hybrid work environment across vibrant cities like Newcastle, Birmingham, Leeds, or Manchester. We offer competitive daily rates, a modern tech stack, and the unique opportunity to lead a cloud-native public sector service through its scaling journey, all while fostering your professional growth in a supportive culture that prioritises employee development and meaningful contributions to society.
