Senior Technical Architect- SC

Contract role

Duration - 4 Months

Valid SC

Rate £620 pd Inside IR35

Hybrid/Newcastle-Upon-Tyne

We are looking for a Technical Architect to join a government client within their Engineering Strategy Team. You will provide architectural design and ownership for engineering solutions developed within the CDS Team. The team requires an architect that can own the Architectural design and decisions, provide advice, and navigate governance processes where required.

The priority workstream is the GitLab/ServiceNow automation process that is currently under development, which is part of the wider Foundry CI/CD capability strategy. This work stream looks to automate the current ServiceNow process for raising standard' Change Requests adjacent to automated deployments

Essential Skills:
Automation and DevOps:

• Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, and Scripting languages (eg, PowerShell, Bash) to streamline infrastructure provisioning and management.
• Familiarity with DevOps principles and CI/CD tools (eg, Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI) for automating deployments and improving infrastructure as code (IaC) processes.
• Understanding of Middleware, APIs (REST/SOAP), microservices and SOA.
• Application architecture, frameworks, technologies (eg PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl, JavaScript), tools and best practice
• Understanding of Middleware, APIs (REST/SOAP), microservices and SOA.

Data Integration:

• Knowledge of integrating data from disparate sources (ERP systems, CRM systems, IoT devices, etc.), Real Time data pipelines, and batch processing.
• Working within a Government or public sector background is highly desirable for this role

Please apply online if this role is for you