25 of 25 Contract Architectural Design Jobs in England

Platform Architect Design Lead - Inside IR35 - SC Cleared

Hiring Organisation
SR2
Location
Reading, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£650 - £750 per day
Platform Architect Design Lead - Inside IR35 - SC Cleared The Platform Architect Design Lead will provide architectural leadership for a highly secure defence programme, shaping the design and evolution of complex digital and technology platforms supporting next-generation defence capability. The role operates as the design authority for platform architecture, ensuring solutions are secure by design, resilient, and aligned to programme objectives, defence standards and delivery constraints. This is a senior, hands-on role working across engineering, cyber security and programme leadership teams within a classified environment. Key Responsibilities Act as the design ...

ERP Solution Architect

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Recruitment
Location
South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£700 - £750 per day + Umbrella Engagement
will play a key role in shaping the end-to-end ERP architecture, working closely with business stakeholders, delivery teams, and system integrators to design and implement a robust, future-proof solution. While Microsoft Dynamics 365 is the preferred platform, experience across other leading ERP technologies is welcomed. What … deliver end-to-end ERP solution architecture across core enterprise domains (e.g. Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement, Manufacturing, HR). Play a key role in architectural design for a large, complex ERP transformation, ensuring alignment with business strategy, operating models, and enterprise architecture standards. Translate business requirements into scalable ...

Solution Architect - AIOP and Observability

Hiring Organisation
Stackstudio Digital Ltd
Location
Reading, Berkshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£80,000
strategic architecture, designing scalable communication frameworks, and enabling digital transformation within a modern telecom ecosystem. This role requires a strong blend of technical leadership, architectural design, and domain expertise across OSS, automation, analytics, and AI-driven operational models. Key Responsibilities Lead design of solutions leveraging Intelligent Automation … across OSS operational workflows. Provide hands-on and strategic input across OSS systems Review and refine OSS HLDs/LLDs, ensuring best practices and architectural consistency. Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Network Engineering, Operations, Data Engineering, Automation COE, and Enterprise Architecture. Engage with business stakeholders to convert operational ...

Solution Architect Manager

Hiring Organisation
Hays
Location
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
scale transformation environment. This is an opportunity for a seasoned architecture leader who thrives on driving strategy, shaping technical direction, and guiding complex solution design across enterprise-level programmes. Your new role You will head up a team of Solution Architects, ensuring architectural consistency, quality, and alignment … concurrent projects. Key Responsibilities Lead, mentor and manage a team of Solution Architects. Translate business strategy into scalable, robust and secure technology solutions. Oversee architectural design and integration across multiple programmes. Maintain architectural standards, frameworks and governance models. Provide senior technical leadership from discovery through to delivery. ...

AI Architect

Hiring Organisation
Empresaria UK Ltd
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£600 - £650/day OUTSIDE IR35
client is in the early stages of adopting Generative AI (Gen AI) and requires an architect who can define the strategic direction, establish architectural patterns, and guide the organization from discovery through to scalable implementation. This is a senior, technology-focused position that requires deep expertise … architecture, tooling evaluation, and integration . This is explicitly not a data engineering or classic data platform build role; the focus is on architectural direction, solution design, and low-maturity organizational uplift. Key Responsibilities The architect will be central to helping the client understand, qualify, and scale their ...

Solution Architect Manager - Stevenage

Hiring Organisation
Morgan Philips Group
Location
Stevenage, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£700 - £750/day
collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning. Work closely with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into effective, scalable technology solutions. Oversee the architectural design and integration of complex systems across multiple projects and business units. Ensure that solutions are aligned with strategic goals, technology standards, and best … performance. Provide technical leadership and guidance throughout the project lifecycle, from concept to deployment and support. Contribute to the creation and maintenance of architectural frameworks, standards, and guidelines. Evaluate and recommend new technologies, tools, and methodologies to drive innovation and efficiency. Facilitate communication between technical teams and non-technical ...

Application Solution Architect- Payments

Hiring Organisation
McGregor Boyall
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
solid and reliable Application Solutions Architect to join and help implement some key solutions across a range of technology. The role: Define an architectural vision and solution architecture that aligns with business strategy, enterprise architecture principles, and technology platform choices. Articulate the solution intent and operating environment, identify primary … interfaces, and define non-functional requirements. Ensure solutions are fit for purpose by collaborating with stakeholders and vendors, while assessing the impact of strategic design decisions. Work closely with both business and technology teams to shape the solution intent and architectural vision. Rapidly develop high-level architecture, refining ...

Pega LSA

Hiring Organisation
Adroit People Ltd
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £350 to £400 per day Contract (InsideIR35)
leadership/clients Must be able to prioritize the tasks based on urgency and need. Should be able to create and own High-Level design (HLD) and Low-Level design (LLD). Should be able to govern and manage the confluence/SharePoint Must be able to manage … agile and other implementation methodologies. Pega implementation methodology knowledge. Must be knowledgeable on ECS, Situational Layer Cake and Case Management Able to execute the Architectural Design and implementation Should be able to support CoE activities Should be able to support estimates for RFPs/RFIs. Able to mentor ...

Senior Cloud Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Eutopia Solutions ltd
Location
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£400 - £450 per day
current estate to develop a strategic plan for modernising their platforms and cloud adoption approach.They are looking to an Infrastructure focused Cloud Specialist at Architectural level to work with their technical teams and this partner as a linchpin to ensure that the assessment, recommendations, and proposed roadmap are fully … ensure that their recommendations are technically sound, feasible, and aligned with our client’s strategy Provide our client with an informed, independent oversight of architectural design and hybrid cloud direction Support the development of a modern, scalable, secure hybrid cloud vision and roadmap Support uplift in cloud capabilities ...

Java Tech Lead

Hiring Organisation
Velocity Talent Ltd
Location
Burgess Hill, West Sussex, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£300 per day £300 POUNDS PER DAY INSIDE IR35
needed for an initial 6-month contract with further extensions up to 18 months paying £300 a day inside IR35 to drive the design and execution of high-scale, event-driven systems. This role is a hybrid of strategic architectural planning and hands-on engineering leadership. You will … defining technical roadmaps, mentoring a high-performing engineering team, and ensuring the delivery of robust microservices within a complex, long-term program. Key Responsibilities Architectural Leadership: Design and oversee the implementation of scalable microservices and event-based architectures using Java, Spring Boot, and Kafka. Team Steering ...

Lead Java Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Experis
Location
Telford, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£550 - £650/day
Engagement Managers and as the project moves into Build, a full engineering team. The role will include accountability for creating the low-level design (LLD) a given service or services (building on Architectural design work). The LLD will cover the entirety of the service and serve … main input into formal impacting and backlog creation for the Build phase. Post the Design phase, the role will include leading (technically) the development and delivery of a given service or services. Adopting shared/common components built within the wider Client. programme, driving ways of working in line ...

Solution Architect

Hiring Organisation
Experis
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£650 - £680/day
complex programme with a strong focus on UK Customs . This role requires a seasoned architect who is comfortable operating at enterprise scale, chairing design authorities, and acting as a trusted technical decision-maker across business and technology stakeholders. You will play a critical role in shaping … solutions, ensuring architectural integrity, and aligning delivery with strategic, regulatory, and operational requirements. Key Responsibilities Lead solution architecture across complex, multi-stream programmes Chair Design Authorities , owning architectural decisions and providing clear direction to delivery teams Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders across business ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Pontoon
Location
Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
dark. As a Senior Software Engineer - Azure Platforms, you will sit across all engineering teams, acting as a key technical leader with an architectural mindset. You'll focus on platform concerns, primarily cloud infrastructure on Azure, before contributing to broader product development and enabling works. Working directly with senior … architecture standards. What You'll Do Act across all engineering teams, addressing platform-level concerns with a focus on Azure cloud infrastructure. Bring an architectural mindset to design decisions, ensuring long-term scalability, maintainability, and alignment with strategic objectives. Design, implement, and maintain scalable, high-performance C# ...

Interim Technology Lead - Outside of IR35

Hiring Organisation
eTech Partners
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£750 - £800 per day
within a carve-out/separation environment Act as technology lead for Microsoft 365 and Azure, working closely with SIs and third parties Provide architectural and design input into platform deployment, migration and modernisation initiatives. Oversee delivery, transition and adoption of Microsoft and Oracle platforms Define and manage … KPIs, SLAs and service performance metrics Provide architectural and design input into migration and modernisation initiatives Support operating-model design, service governance and RFP oversight Ensure platforms are secure, scalable and aligned to enterprise standards Manage complex supplier relationships and multi-vendor dependencies Essential Experience Proven experience ...

Infrastructure Architect - Inside IR35 - Hybrid

Hiring Organisation
Tenth Revolution Group
Location
Knutsford, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£500 - £600 per day
responsible for owning, designing, operating, and continuously enhancing SilverFort as an enterprise service, delivering a unified identity and access management platform. The role provides architectural leadership across the SilverFort ecosystem, ensuring the service is secure, scalable, resilient, and aligned to infrastructure and security standards. This role acts … primary authority on SilverFort architecture, policy design, and service integrations, working closely with infrastructure, security, network, and platform teams. The architect provides strategic direction, supports complex change and transformation initiatives, and engages with vendors and delivery teams to evolve the service. Key Responsibilities Own the end-to-end SilverFort ...

Redhat Specialist

Hiring Organisation
CBSbutler Holdings Limited trading as CBSbutler
Location
Wokingham, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£350 - £386/day Inside IR35
IR35 Skills: +Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 8, 9, and 10 +Red Hat Satellite +Ansible Knowledge, Experience & Technical Expertise - Proven track record in the design, construction, and management of Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 8, 9, and 10. - Demonstrated success in the design and management … Essential Experience:** - Proven experience in a production IT environment, managing enterprise IT infrastructure, hardware, hosting services, and network areas. - Ability to write and review architectural design documents. - Knowledge of industry trends and new technologies, with the ability to apply these trends to architectural needs ...

Java Developer

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Technologies Recruitment
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£700 - £800/day
Connectivity: TransFICC specialization, TCP/UDP, Kernel-level optimization. The Infrastructure: AWS, Ansible, Linux Performance Tuning. The Philosophy: DDD, TDD, and fault-tolerant architectural design. Who You Are A Veteran of the "Zero-Latency" World: 8+ years in electronic trading (5+ specifically in E-Commerce/eFI/ ...

Systems Engineer (MilSatcom)

Hiring Organisation
Belcan Technical Recruiting (UK) Ltd
Location
Stevenage, Hertfordshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
Up to £55.00 per hour
define requirements from stakeholder needs through to sub-systems, ensuring traceability and verification. Support Verification, Validation & Test (VV&T) activities. Lead ground system architectural design definition and trade-off analysis. Collaborate with Engineering Leads and Partners in integrated working groups to define segment and sub-system architectures. Provide … informed on progress and resolve technical challenges. Candidate Profile Degree (or equivalent) in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunications, or related discipline. Experience in the design, integration, and deployment of end-to-end digital telecommunications systems (Milsatcom experience desirable), covering space, control, and ground segments. Familiarity with Waterfall and Agile ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Stackstudio Digital Ltd
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £450 to £500 per day
automation across multiple processes, revolutionizing the way the client operates. Your expertise will touch cutting-edge technologies, and you will have input into architectural designs and best practices. Your creative thinking and problem-solving skills will be highly valued as you collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop scalable …/Azure). Knowledge and experience of event-driven microservice architectures, RESTful APIs, message queues, and familiarity with RabbitMQ and Kafka. Previous responsibility for design and architecture of complex web systems, and experience and willingness to coach and mentor less experienced engineers. Ownership of solutions end-to-end-from ...

Technical Architects

Hiring Organisation
Experis
Location
South Croydon, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£710.00 - £735.00 per day
site PW Due to the urgency and sensitivity of the work, active SC Clearance is mandatory. Responsibilities As a Technical Architect, you will: Design and own end-to-end technical solutions across applications, platforms, and infrastructure Define application architecture patterns , integration approaches, and data flows Lead solution design across cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP) Translate business and functional requirements into scalable technical architectures Design solutions addressing non-functional requirements , including performance, scalability, security, and resilience Architect high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions Support hybrid and multi-cloud architectural designs Collaborate ...

Enterprise Architect - 12 months - SC Cleared

Hiring Organisation
Involved Solutions
Location
Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£600 - £700 per day
transitional states Understand the organisation's ecosystem and its interdependencies, including reference architectures Take a strategic view across all architectural domains, portfolios and programmes Guide the organisation to make appropriate business, technology and data decisions by recommending reuse, sustainability and scalability, to achieve value for money and reduce risk … Establish architectural principles, policies and standards Collaborate and consult with stakeholders to assure business, technology and data decisions are aligned with enterprise architecture strategy Develop the architecture community Carry out horizon scanning across industry, identifying emerging trends and their potential impact and opportunity for the organisation Develop, validate ...

Infrastructure/Cloud AWS Architect, Outside IR35, Hybrid

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson
Location
Bristol, Avon, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£500 - £700 per day
authority for infrastructure architecture topics and will collaborate with the wider digital technology, engineering and architecture teams. General responsibilities: - Mature infrastructure technical architecture, defining architectural standards and best practices for deployment and management Develop and maintain reference architecture assets, including roadmaps, blueprints. Lead architectural designs for secure … relevant frameworks, including ISO 27001, PCI DSS. Support infrastructure capabilities internally through the mentoring of technical teams such as Digital Operations and Engineering, on design best practices, DevOps, and infrastructure-as-code approaches Skills and experience required: - In-depth infrastructure expertise across security, networking, databases and storage. Experience with ...

Data Architect

Hiring Organisation
IMT Resourcing Solutions
Location
Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£600 - £700 per day
What you’ll do Assess and document the current data landscape and architecture Define target-state data architecture and supporting roadmaps Lead data architecture design for a large-scale on-prem to cloud migration Work closely with senior stakeholders to shape the overarching data strategy Ensure architectural designs … align with enterprise standards, governance, and best practice Provide clear architectural guidance to engineering, platform, and delivery teams You’ll work closely with architecture, engineering, and business stakeholders to ensure data solutions are scalable, secure, and future-proof. What we’re looking for Proven experience as a Data Architect ...

Data Warehouse Architect

Hiring Organisation
TXP
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£700 - £750/day Outside IR35
work. Core Responsibilities Own logical and physical data warehouse architecture from ingestion to consumption Define target state architecture and roadmaps for enterprise data platforms Design modern data warehouse patterns using medallion architecture. Bronze silver gold Define canonical data models conformed dimensions and domain boundaries Set Master Data Management strategy … reference data integration Analytical and dimensional modelling approaches Semantic layer and BI consumption patterns Metadata lineage observability and monitoring Architecture Leadership Act as architectural authority and design reviewer Produce architecture artefacts principles and standards Translate business strategy into scalable data architectures Work with engineers product owners and business ...

ServiceNow Solution Architect

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Digital
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
£400 - £500 per day
Expert, you will drive technical decisions and safeguard the integrity of the platform. Key responsibilities include: Translating complex business needs into differentiated, High-Level Design (HLD) documentation. Overseeing platform health and enforcing elite coding standards across a combined consultancy and client team. Proactively identifying opportunities to streamline business processes … enhance platform performance Mentoring cross-functional teams to ensure sound decision-making and effective delivery. Essential Skills Prior experience of architectural designs High level (HLD) Experience with the following service now modules: ITSM, ITOM and CSM Proficient in connecting service now with external systems using IntegrationHUb, REST/SOAP ...