Head of Technical Architecture - £900/day 6 Months+Ext - Remote

Involved Solutions LTD.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 210,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Involved Solutions LTD. is seeking a Head of Technical Architecture to lead architecture across AI-enabled public-facing digital products. This senior role requires a proven track record of delivering at national scale and implementing safety guardrails for AI systems.

The position supports a central government client with the option for Remote work and London as a location, and requires SC clearance before starting. A strong background in AWS serverless tech and AI guardrails is essential.

Qualifications

• Senior technical leadership with architecture oversight across multiple major releases.
• Proven delivery of AI-enabled public-facing digital products with safety guardrails.
• Must hold SC clearance before starting.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture across the development of AI-enabled digital products used by the public.
• Hit the ground running in a senior technical leadership role and guide architectural decisions.
• Manage architecture teams and multiple architects to deliver on national-scale projects.

Skills

Technical leadership

Architecture leadership

AI-enabled product delivery

AWS serverless & Bedrock

SC clearance

Public-facing scaling

Public-facing product development

Education

Computer Science degree

AWS certification

Tools

Amazon Bedrock

Serverless architectures

Job description

Head of Technical Architecture - £900pd - SC Cleared

Duration: 6 months (extendable)

Location: Remote / London

IR35: Inside

The role:

On behalf of a central government client, we're looking for an experienced Head of Technical Architecture to lead to lead architecture across the development of AI-enabled digital products used directly by the public.

This is a senior technical leadership role requiring someone who can hit the ground running, with a strong track record of building and releasing digital products at national scale. Experience delivering public-facing AI products and agentic solutions is particularly important, including managing safety risks, implementing guardrails and conducting red teaming or other threat assessments.

Key requirements for the Head of Technical Architecture:

• Extensive experience as a Technical or Solutions Architect, with a strong background in digital product development rather than enterprise architecture or back-office systems.
• Proven experience building and shipping user-facing digital products, including websites or applications, with clear examples of ownership across multiple major releases.
• Hands-on experience delivering AI-enabled products, ideally including AI agents deployed directly to end users.
• Experience scaling digital products to national audiences, ideally supporting tens of thousands of concurrent users.
• Strong technical leadership experience, including managing architecture teams and multiple architects.
• Strong AWS experience, ideally including serverless technologies and Amazon Bedrock.
• Experience establishing AI guardrails, managing safety risks and conducting red teaming or threat assessments.
• The successful candidate must hold SC clearance before starting.

Experience with agentic development, AI evaluation, secure-by-design principles, NCSC guidance, the Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF), privacy and user experience management would be advantageous. AWS certifications or a computer science qualification would also be useful, but practical experience is more important.

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