AMS PSR

On behalf of the Cabinet Office we are looking for a Lead Technical Architect (Inside IR35) for a 6 month contract. Remote working with occasional office travel. 

The Cabinet Office supports the Prime Minister and ensures the effective running of government. The Cabinet Office is also the corporate headquarters for the government, in partnership with HM Treasury, and takes the lead in certain critical policy areas. More information about the Cabinet Office can be found on its website at: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/cabinet-office

As a Lead Technical Architect you will work on projects that require broad architectural thinking. The projects are set within an AWS data delivery environment.

You will:

• Be responsible for leading the technical solution design of a data product, justifying and communicating design decisions.
• Assure data product and system quality, ensuring the technical work fits into the data platform and wider Cabinet Office technology strategy.
• Drive continuous improvement in system reliability, performance, and security.
• Regularly collaborate and find agreement with senior stakeholders, providing direction and challenge.
• Be proactive in working with UCD and Engineering to identify problems and translating these into scalable technical solutions.
• Participate in architecture reviews, and technical workshops.

As a Lead Technical Architect your main responsibilities will be:

• Secure Cloud & Platform Architecture (AWS Focus): You will lead and optimise the design of resilient, high-availability AWS environments, ensuring that every infrastructure component is built with a "secure-by-design" approach to protect against evolving threats;
• Architecture Patterns & Standards: You will establish and uphold the technical standards for the organisation, creating reusable patterns and governance frameworks that ensure consistency and quality across all engineering squads.
• Comprehensive Data Management Design: This involves architecting the end-to-end lifecycle of data systems and services, ensuring the underlying infrastructure supports high-performance analytics and robust data sovereignty.
• Digital Service Integration & API Management: You will oversee the connectivity of modern digital services by designing scalable API layers and integration strategies that allow internal and external systems to communicate securely and efficiently.
• Agile Delivery & Stakeholder Translation: You will bridge the gap between complex technical roadmaps and strategic business goals, communicating technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders to ensure smooth, iterative delivery.

Essential:

• An active SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. (Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance.) 
• Experience of architecture design of highly scalable and secure Data Platforms hosted on AWS.
• Expeirence of architecture design informed through use of principles, patterns, technical radars, practices and standards.
• Public Sector experience.
• Data Storage Design & Management - expertise across diverse storage technologies including SQL, NoSQL and Data Lakehouse.
• Data Architecture Design - Data Modelling (conceptual to physical), Master Data Management (MDM), Metadata Management, Data Lineage and Data Governance.
• API Management - designing and implementing robust integration patterns (including end-to-end secure API management and gateways) that reliably connect Data Platforms
• to wider digital services and consuming tech systems.
• Service Architecture Design - monitoring, logging and observability including patching, business continuity and disaster recovery.
• Experience of working within and across product teams within Agile environments throughout the full delivery lifecycle of inception to go-live.
• Translating business requirements into tangible, compliant, technical solutions with traceability to the user value that can be demonstrated to stakeholders.

Desirable:

• Experience of working with AI technologies.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, The Cabinet Office guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

The Cabinet Office guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".