Technical Architect
TECHNICAL ARCHITECT
- Technical Architect | Data Platform | AWS & Azure | Brownfield Modernisation
- £510 per day via Umbrella | Contract until 31/12/2026
- Remote (occasional travel to London, Manchester, Birmingham or Newcastle)
- Active SC Clearance Required (ideally used within last 6 months)
ABOUT THE CLIENT
Our client is undertaking the architectural modernisation of a large-scale, established data platform within a highly regulated government environment.
This programme focuses on reshaping an existing brownfield data warehouse platform to align with enterprise standards, enable microservice-based upstream integration, and support secure multi-cloud connectivity - all while maintaining uninterrupted live service delivery.
THE TECHNICAL ARCHITECT ROLE
As Technical Architect, you will lead the architectural modernisation of a large-scale data platform, working within a complex brownfield environment.
You will be responsible for re-architecting data flows, managing schema evolution (300+ schemas), defining data migration strategies, and enabling secure connectivity between AWS-hosted services and Azure-based enterprise environments.
You will provide senior technical authority across architecture, infrastructure, security, and governance - ensuring alignment with organisational standards while maintaining continuity of critical live services.
This role requires strong hands-on capability, multi-cloud expertise, and the confidence to operate as architectural lead across multiple technical and stakeholder groups.
ESSENTIAL SKILLS
- Proven experience as a Senior Technical Architect within complex brownfield environments
- Strong Data Platform Architecture experience (ETL/ELT, ingestion patterns, schema evolution, microservices integration)
- Multi-cloud expertise across AWS and Azure
- Experience designing secure cross-cloud data connectivity (VPC, VPN, identity, Zscaler)
- Strong infrastructure and security architecture capability
- Experience modernising live critical services without disruption
- Experience within government, public sector or regulated environments
- Strong governance, assurance and technical leadership experience
- Experience producing high-quality technical documentation (Confluence / SharePoint)
- Active SC clearance (ideally used within last 6 months)
DESIRABLE
- Event-driven architecture experience
- Knowledge of Kotlin and migration to Java/Python
- Experience with Power BI / GenAI (nice to have)
- AWS and/or Azure certifications
TO BE CONSIDERED
Please either apply via this advert or email your CV directly to . For further information, please call . By applying for this role, you give express consent for us to process and submit (subject to required skills) your application to our client in conjunction with this vacancy only.