Job Title: Technical Architect (AWS)
Rate: £500 (Inside IR35)
Duration: 6 months
Location: Remote
Clearance: BPSS
Stages: 1 Stage

Must Have Government Experience

Key Responsibilities

• Design end-to-endAWS cloud architecturesfor high-availability, secure, and scalable government systems
• Define and maintainsolution architecture blueprints, HLDs, LLDs, and technical roadmaps
• Lead architectural decisions acrossmicroservices, event-driven architecture, and serverless patterns
• Ensure solutions comply withGDS (Government Digital Service) standards,NCSC security principles, and DWP architecture governance
• Provide technical leadership across DevOps, engineering, and platform teams
• Definecloud landing zones, networking (VPCs, subnets, routing), and multi-account AWS strategies
• Support implementation ofCI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation)
• Ensure robustsecurity architecture(IAM, encryption, secrets management, zero trust principles)
• Evaluate and select AWS services (eg, Lambda, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, RDS)
• Work with solution designers and engineers to ensure designs are implemented correctly
• Participate inarchitecture review boards (ARB)and governance forums
• Identify risks, technical debt, and propose remediation strategies

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong experience as aTechnical Architect or Senior Solution Architect
• Extensive hands-on experience withAWS cloud platform
• Background in designinglarge-scale, distributed systems
• Strong understanding of:
  • Microservices architecture
  • Event-driven systems (SNS/SQS/Kinesis/EventBridge)
  • Serverless architecture
• Experience withInfrastructure as Code(Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK)
• Knowledge ofcontainerisation(Docker, Kubernetes/EKS)
• Strong understanding ofnetworking, security, and identity in AWS
• Experience working inUK public sector or regulated environments(preferred)
• Familiarity withGDS Service Standardsand agile delivery models
• Ability to produce high-quality architectural documentation