Technical Architect

Inside IR35 | 6 months+ | Leeds (1 visit per fortnight)
Start ASAP | SC Eligible (5 years UK residency)

A large national public‑sector programme requires a Technical Architect to lead the design and assurance of a high‑volume, event‑driven AWS platform. This role provides architectural leadership across Agile teams and shapes technical standards and integrations at scale.

Responsibilities:

• Lead architecture for serverless, event‑driven AWS systems.
• Produce HLDs and guide LLDs.
• Define patterns, data models and integration approaches.
• Ensure resilience, scalability, security and operability.
• Oversee engineering assurance, IaC, CI/CD and observability.
• Produce architectural artefacts (C4, AWS diagrams).
• Contribute to architecture boards and governance.

Tech Environment:
AWS (Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, DynamoDB, Glue, Athena)
Databricks, Power BI
Terraform, GitHub Actions
TypeScript (review), Python (minor)

Essential:

• Senior architecture experience with distributed, event‑driven AWS platforms
• Strong documentation skills (HLD, patterns, data flows)
• High‑throughput, secure, resilient design experience
• Data integration and modelling expertise
• Agile team leadership and technical assurance