Technical/Solution Architect

Solution / Technical Architect

Location: Primarily remote working - Ad hoc travel required

Clearance: BPSS Clearance required

Rate: £550 per day inside IR35

3 month rolling contract

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) environment

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Solution / Technical Architect to join a team responsible for delivering a large-scale digital Health Assessment Service. This is a key architectural role combining both technical and solution architecture responsibilities, providing leadership across cloud, application, integration, data, and operational domains.

You will play a pivotal role in shaping the service architecture as it evolves from private beta through to full-scale production, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned to business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain end-to-end solution architectures and technical designs across the service landscape.
• Provide architectural governance, technical leadership, and design assurance.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, product, and delivery teams to guide implementation activities.
• Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements including performance, scalability, resilience, security, availability, and disaster recovery.
• Support the service's transition from beta into full production operation.
• Review and evaluate technical decisions, ensuring alignment with architectural principles and best practices.
• Drive consistency across architecture patterns, standards, and design approaches.
• Contribute to roadmap planning and strategic technology decisions.

Technical Environment

Cloud & Infrastructure

• AWS

Application Technologies

• Node.js
• Express.js
• Java
• Spring Boot

Integration & Messaging

• Kafka
• Event-Driven Architecture

Data

• MongoDB

Architectural Approaches

• Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
• Bounded Contexts
• Microservices
• REST APIs

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven experience operating as a Solution Architect, Technical Architect, or similar architecture role.
• Strong expertise designing and delivering cloud-native solutions on AWS.
• Demonstrable experience with microservices architectures, event-driven systems, and API-led design.
• Strong understanding of Java/Spring Boot-based architectures and modern web applications.
• Experience designing for scalability, resilience, operational readiness, and disaster recovery.
• Ability to provide technical leadership and architectural governance across multidisciplinary delivery teams.
• Experience working within Agile delivery environments.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.

Desirable Experience

• Experience working within the public sector.
• Experience delivering large-scale digital transformation programmes or citizen-facing services.
• Knowledge of beta-to-live service transitions and operational scaling.
• Experience within healthcare, health assessment, or other highly regulated industries.
• Familiarity with Government Digital Service (GDS) principles and standards.