At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and advance cloud services across AWS and Azure for the Department for Business and Trade.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking department focused on trade, business, and economic growth.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, generous pension, flexible working, and tailored learning opportunities.
- Other info: Collaborative culture with excellent career development and meaningful projects.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a cloud-first environment while shaping the future of technology.
- Qualifications: Strong experience in technical architecture and designing secure cloud solutions.
The predicted salary is between 67867 - 81793 £ per year.
Job Description
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is seeking a Cloud-focused Technical Architect to help shape and advance the department’s cloud capability across AWS and Azure.
This role focuses on designing modern, resilient and secure cloud services, while helping define best practice, architectural standards and long‑term platform direction.
You will work closely with platform teams, cyber security colleagues, architects and delivery teams to ensure cloud technologies are adopted effectively across DBT.
The focus is not legacy migration; DBT is already cloud‑based, so this role is about designing for the future, improving resilience, supporting cross‑cloud design and helping cloud services deliver long‑term value for the department.
Salary range £67,867 to £81,793 plus excellent Civil Service benefits and a 29% employer pension contribution.
Salary is dependent on location and technical skills as assessed at interview.
London based range: £71,590 to £85,413.
Hybrid working includes 40% in‑office working per month (typically 2 days/week); hours are flexible and condensed hours are an option.
Office locations are: London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford.
- About role
- Classified as a senior technical architect with responsibilities that include:
- Define and champion the technical strategy for services, ensuring alignment with user needs, business goals and DDa T standards.
- Lead technical specialists across multiple projects, solving complex architectural challenges and owning the technical design of services.
- Design and assure secure, open‑source and user‑centred systems, including integration, interoperability, cloud quality, security and performance.
- Provide technical governance, present designs to boards such as the Technical Design Authority, and collaborate with architects across DBT to ensure alignment.
- Conduct horizon scans for emerging technologies, contribute to the architecture community, mentor peers and support capability development within the profession.
Essential skills
- Strong technical architecture experience, including designing secure, scalable and user‑centred digital services.
- Experience producing high‑level designs, translating them into practical delivery plans and taking them through governance or assurance boards.
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to work across agile, multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience designing secure cloud solutions using AWS and/or Azure.
- Experience working in cloud or multi‑cloud environments, including cloud networking, platform design and integration.
- Experience building resilient, scalable and performant cloud architectures, with an understanding of cloud standards, patterns and best practice.
- SC clearance (condition of having been present in the UK for 3 out of the past 5 years).
Benefits
- Civil Service pension with employer contribution of 28.97%.
- Learning and development tailored to your role with expensed accreditations and study time.
- Flexible, hybrid working environment with options like condensed hours.
- Culture encouraging equality and diversity.
- Annual leave starting at 25 days, rising with each year of service.
- Three paid volunteering days a year.
- Employee benefits programme including cycle‑to‑work scheme and season ticket loans.
- Bonus and discount schemes, including in‑year rewards and vouchers as well as My Lifestyle discounts.
- Family‑friendly policies including maternity, adoption or shared parental leave.
- Job satisfaction: making a positive contribution to the UK's economy.
- Additional information
DBT does not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker License sponsor and is unable to sponsor any individuals for Skilled Worker Sponsorship.
This role requires SC clearance.
Why join DBT
It is an opportunity to work on modern, varied and meaningful technology programmes that support trade, business and economic growth across the UK.
DBT offers the chance to work in a cloud‑first environment, contribute to emerging AI capability, support major digital services and be involved in large‑scale transformation across government.
You will join a collaborative architecture community where your experience will shape technical direction, improve services and support teams to deliver well‑designed, secure and resilient solutions.
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