Senior Technical Architect Public Sector | Hybrid | Discovery Phase Programme in Newcastle upon Tyne
Posted by Opus Recruitment Solutions
£475 – £500 a day
Newcastle upon Tyne · Contract
10 Weeks inital discovery with an option to go on for 2 years
Inside ir35
Remote - Once or twice across the contract onsite to your local office
Provided technical leadership and architectural governance for a large-scale public sector discovery focused on enabling secure data sharing and integration across multiple external organisations.
Key Responsibilities
- Led the technical architecture workstream, defining solution boundaries, identifying risks, and assessing technical feasibility.
- Designed cloud-native architecture patterns across AWS and Azure, including APIs, integration services, and scalable data platforms.
- Established security, identity, and governance frameworks to support compliance, assurance, and approval processes.
- Collaborated with delivery, data, and product teams to shape operating models and technical solutions.
- Guided prototyping activities, ensuring solutions were technically viable and aligned to long-term architectural strategy.
- Defined technical success measures, pilot approaches, and architecture outputs required for progression into the next delivery phase.
- Presented architectural recommendations and risk assessments to senior stakeholders and governance boards.
- Enterprise Architecture and Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure)
- API Strategy and Cross-Organisation Integration
- Event-Driven and Service-Oriented Architectures
- Security Architecture, IAM, OAuth2/OIDC, and Encryption
- Data Architecture and Platform Design
- TOGAF, ArchiMate, UML, and Architecture Governance
- Agile Delivery and Digital Service Assurance
- Stakeholder Management and Executive Advisory
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