Technical Architect - #2182870

ASA Recruitment’s client, a Public Sector organisation with offices in both Glasgow and Dundee are currently looking to recruit 2x Technical Architects for initial 6 month contracts (with potential extensions) on a rate of up to £685/day inside of IR35 (based on experience). The candidates will be required to spend a minimum 2 days per week in either Glasgow or Dundee offices.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and assurance of end to end integrated systems, ensuring consistent, reusable and secure connectivity across the technology estate.
• Define, document and maintain architecture standards, patterns and reference models.
• Design and assure designs based on SaaS, COTS, and in-house developed components ensuring effective use of cloud-native services and delivering robust API management, messaging, orchestration and security requirements for resilience.
• Define and govern integration designs, including internal and external, 3rd-party integrations whilst ensuring appropriate versioning, documentation and lifecycle management.
• Ensure designs meet non-functional requirements, including security, performance, resilience, scalability and cost efficiency in line with public sector standards.
• Provide architectural assurance and challenge for designs presented through formal governance and review processes.
• Work collaboratively with Technical Architects, delivery teams, platform teams, security specialists and external suppliers to deliver agreed integration architectures.
• Support delivery teams during build and implementation phases by providing hands-on architectural guidance and resolving complex integration issues.

Experience:

• Proven experience operating as an Technical Architect or equivalent specialist architecture role within a large and complex organisation.
• Extensive experience designing, implementing, governing and supporting enterprise end to end solutions using COTS, SaaS, and in-house developed components.
• Extensive experience designing, implementing, governing and supporting the integration of end to end solution using an integration platform.
• Strong knowledge of application architecture and enterprise application landscapes, including SaaS, COTS and bespoke applications.
• Adept at integrating secure by design principles into architecture work
• Demonstrable experience defining design standards, reference architectures, design principles and technical roadmaps.
• Strong experience documenting and articulating architectural concepts and architecture designs.
• Experience leading architectural governance activities and providing technical assurance through Architecture Review Boards or equivalent governance forums.
• Proven ability to engage effectively with senior stakeholders, suppliers, delivery teams and executive audiences, translating complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes.
• Experience working within Agile and multidisciplinary delivery environments.
• Experience working in large public sector organisations with an understanding of government digital service standards and governance processes.
• Knowledge and practical experience of AWS Cloud architecture.

Demonstrable experience defining and governing API strategies, including:

• REST APIs
• Event-driven APIs
• API lifecycle management
• Security standards
• Versioning and governance models

Strong understanding of integration architecture patterns and their appropriate application, including:

• Point-to-point integration
• Hub-and-spoke
• Event-driven architecture
• Publish-subscribe
• Microservices integration
• Data integration and synchronisation patterns
• Hybrid cloud integration