SC Clearance Cloud Architect — Secure & Scalable (Hybrid)

Inspire People; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 68,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Civil Service pension

Flexible hours

Job summary

Department for Business and Trade is recruiting 4 experienced Technical Architects to lead secure cloud solutions in a UK-wide context. The role focuses on designing high-level architectures, aligning with governance, and driving technical strategies across multiple programmes.

Hybrid work from multiple UK locations, including London and Belfast, with strong emphasis on collaboration, stakeholder communication and continuous improvement of digital delivery.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and delivering secure cloud solutions on AWS and/or Azure.
• Strong track record producing high-level designs and governance through Architecture Review Boards/Technical Design Authority.
• Ability to translate high-level designs into practical low-level designs aligned to standards.
• Experience leading technical teams delivering user-focused services within agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and champion the technical strategy for services in line with user needs and business goals.
• Lead technical specialists across projects, owning the technical design of services.
• Design and assure secure, open-source and user-centred systems including integration, interoperability, security and performance.
• Provide technical governance and present designs to boards like the Technical Design Authority.
• Horizon scan for emerging technologies and mentor peers to develop capability.
• Shape the technical direction from discovery through live operations.
• Contribute to portfolio strategy and governance for DBT digital delivery.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Leadership

Stakeholder communication

Agile

Tools

AWS

Azure

Django

Python

NodeJS

React

dbt

Security

ERP

Job description

Department for Business and Trade is recruiting 4 experienced Technical Architects to lead secure cloud solutions in a UK-wide context. The role focuses on designing high-level architectures, aligning with governance, and driving technical strategies across multiple programmes.

Hybrid work from multiple UK locations, including London and Belfast, with strong emphasis on collaboration, stakeholder communication and continuous improvement of digital delivery.