Software Architect - SC Cleared
Rate: £70/hr
Duration: Initially 12 Months
Location: Guildford
Working Pattern: three days a week on site
Clearance: SC Clearance required
You will join a global defence consultancy, delivering digital transformation to a public sector agency.
Responsibilities
- Work with System Architects to translate business goals and high-level requirements into robust software architectures, balancing performance, security, reliability, and compliance.
- Design scalable, flexible, and maintainable architectures for complex geospatial systems using the latest modern cloud based technologies and tools.
- Identify technical risks early and define pragmatic mitigation strategies.
- Work in an AGILE scrum team, collaborating closely with software engineers, testers and the Product Owner, providing clear guidance and hands‑on architectural support.
- Collaborate with development teams to select appropriate technologies, frameworks, and patterns.
- Ensure delivered solutions align with the agreed architecture and meet both functional and non-functional requirements.
- Produce clear, structured documentation covering architecture decisions and design rationale.
- Contribute to and support technical and architectural reviews.
Your skills and experience:
- Strong experience designing and owning software architectures for complex systems, preferably in a cloud environment with an awareness of DevSecOps.
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with practical delivery.
- Confidence communicating architectural designs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience working in environments with security, reliability, and compliance constraints, preferably in the geospatial domain.
- A collaborative mindset and passion for mentoring and supporting engineering teams.
