SC Cleared Senior Technical Architect

Anglia IT Recruitment; Sheffield, London; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency seeks an SC Cleared Senior Technical Architect for a key digital transformation project. The role involves defining technical strategies, guiding teams, and ensuring alignment with broader technology goals. Candidates should have extensive experience in technical architecture, API development, and modern cloud practices, with a willingness to undergo SC clearance if not already held.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in technical/solution architecture.
• Experience with modern cloud architectures.
• Proven background in API development.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the technical strategy and roadmap.
• Guide technical teams and influence choices.
• Support hiring for Technical Architects and Software Developers.

Skills

Technical Architecture

Cloud-first Architectures

API Development

Microservices

Security Risk Mitigation

Domain-driven Design

Test-driven Development

Continuous Integration

Continuous Delivery

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

AppInsights

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

Job description

Role: SC Cleared Senior Technical Architect

Location: Hybrid – 2 /3 days onsite with national travel including London & Sheffield

Length: 6 Months

Rate: Market Rates (Inside IR35)

Working on a key digital transformation project that will centralise and improve data quality.

Responsibilities:

• Work with the Principal Technical Architects to define, maintain and own the technical strategy and roadmap for services of various sizes and complexity.
• Collaborate and find agreement with senior stakeholders
• Guide technical teams, influence technical choices and seek out opportunities for digital transformation
• Undertake structured evaluations of technical concepts, translating this into technical designs that describe a solution
• Look for opportunities to collaborate and reuse common components, communicating with both technical and non-technical people
• Assure other services and system quality, ensuring the technical work fits into the broader strategy for the agency
• Align your team’s work with the departmental and wider technology strategy
• Support hiring, taking part in recruitment for both Technical Architects and other professions such as Software Developers

Skills Required:

• 5 years + experience working in a technical / solution architecture role. Can act as a technical expert to guide, critique and support teams in delivery of outcomes.
• Practical working knowledge of modern cloud-first architectures and how to build applications.
• Experience of devising software architecture for multi-tier web solutions, which include frontend and / or backend microservices, event-driven processing, API provision / consumption, databases.
• Experience of architecting digital services that align to a wider technical strategy
• Must have a proven background in API development / management coupled with experience of working across multiple teams.
• Programming languages such as TypeScript/Node, Kotlin/Java.
• AWS using infrastructure as code such as Terraform.
• Container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
• Modern development practices such as domain-driven design, test-driven development, continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Knowledge of tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, AppInsights, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, and more
• Able to identify and mitigate security risks when designing and operating in a public cloud environment

Candidates must hold or be willing to undergo SC Clearance.