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 departments.
The predicted salary is between 69935 - 85477 £ 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. The package is £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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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.
