Public Sector Digital Transformation UK Wide | Hybrid Working Competitive Salary + Benefits
Tenth Revolution Group is working with a leading global consulting organisation delivering some of the UK's most significant public sector digital transformation programmes. We are seeking an experienced Technical Architect to play a key role in designing and delivering modern, citizen-centric digital services at scale.
This is an opportunity to join a high-performing team that is helping government organisations modernise legacy systems, embrace cloud-native technologies, leverage AI, and deliver exceptional digital experiences for citizens.
You'll combine strategic thinking with hands-on technical leadership, guiding multidisciplinary teams through architecture, design, and implementation whilst ensuring solutions align with government standards, security frameworks, and emerging technology trends.
What You'll Be Working On
As a Technical Architect, you'll be involved in a wide variety of transformational initiatives, including:
- Designing and delivering large-scale citizen-facing digital services that meet Government Digital Service (GDS) standards and accessibility requirements.
- Building personalised and proactive public services that anticipate user needs and improve service outcomes.
- Driving the adoption of AI-powered solutions, including intelligent automation, virtual assistants, predictive support, and next-best-action capabilities.
- Leading the modernisation of CRM and customer engagement platforms, including technologies such as Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, and other enterprise platforms.
- Developing omnichannel digital experiences across web, mobile, contact centre, and other citizen interaction channels.
- Enabling data-driven delivery through advanced analytics, forecasting, automation, and AI-enabled tooling.
- Supporting cloud migration and modern application development programmes across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud environments.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Architecture & Leadership
- Lead the design and delivery of complex enterprise-scale solutions.
- Translate high-level solution architectures into detailed technical designs and implementation roadmaps.
- Define technical standards, architecture principles, and best practices across programmes.
- Provide leadership, mentoring, and technical direction to development and architecture teams.
- Assure technical quality and alignment with wider organisational and government strategies.
Solution Design & Delivery
- Produce detailed technical artefacts including:
- Component and integration designs
- API specifications
- Security architectures
- Deployment and operating models
- Design scalable, resilient, cloud-native platforms and services.
- Support iterative delivery through transitional and target-state architectures.
- Architect solutions across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
- Champion cloud-native, open-source, and DevOps approaches.
- Review code, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment strategies.
- Work closely with engineering teams to resolve complex technical challenges.
Security & Governance
- Embed security-by-design principles into all solutions.
- Ensure compliance with government service standards and security frameworks.
- Design robust approaches to identity management, encryption, access control, and secure cloud operations.
AI & Emerging Technology
- Shape AI adoption strategies and identify practical use cases across public services.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend innovative solutions that deliver measurable value.
- Help organisations leverage GenAI tools and automation to improve both citizen outcomes and delivery efficiency.
What We're Looking For:
- Significant experience in a Technical Architect, Lead Engineer, Solution Architect, or similar hands-on architecture role.
- Proven success delivering enterprise-scale systems within public sector, government, or highly regulated environments.
- Strong experience designing solutions on Salesforce, AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud platforms.
- Expert-level development experience with technologies such as:
- Node.js, Java, Python
- Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture patterns including:
- Microservices
- Event-driven architectures
- Serverless computing
- Experience with modern DevOps practices and tooling, including:
- Docker
- Terraform
- Experience working with open-source technologies and frameworks.
- Knowledge of GenAI engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or similar.
- Strong understanding of GDS standards, accessibility requirements, and government technology best practices.
- Experience implementing security-by-design principles within cloud environments.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and mentoring skills.
- Experience with data streaming and event platforms.
- API Gateway and service mesh technologies.
- Front-end framework integration experience.
- Additional programming languages.
- Existing Security Clearance (SC) or eligibility to obtain clearance.
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Technical Architect employer: Tenth Revolution Group
Join a forward-thinking organisation in Telford that values innovation and collaboration, offering a dynamic work culture where your expertise as a Data Architect will directly influence enterprise-wide data strategies. With a commitment to employee growth, you will have access to continuous learning opportunities and the chance to work with cutting-edge technologies in a supportive environment. Enjoy the unique advantage of a hybrid work model, allowing for flexibility while still fostering strong team connections through regular onsite collaboration.
