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Principal Platform Architect
£37,000 - 68,500
Anson Mccade
Clifton Street 40, Heaton + Remote (UK)
£37,000 - 68,500
Requirements
Must:
- Proven experience in a consulting environment delivering platform or cloud architecture solutions to public sector, public health (NHS), or defence clients.
- Extensive hands-on experience in the design and delivery of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS components.
- Strong background in DevOps tooling and methodologies including:
- CI/CD pipelines
- Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Pulumi, ARM, etc.)
- Containerisation & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm)
- Automation (Ansible, Bash, Python)
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience working with senior stakeholders and leadership teams.
- Experience in security-first design, with a working knowledge of security accreditation standards in the public sector (e.g., ISO27001, Cyber Essentials).
- Active and valid SC Clearance at the time of starting.
- Experience with platform reliability (SRE), service resilience, and scaling services in secure or sensitive environments.
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture and technical direction for large-scale cloud platform programmes.
- Define and maintain architectural blueprints, platform patterns, and reusable assets to drive consistency and scalability.
- Collaborate with technical teams, delivery leads, and customer stakeholders (including C-level executives) to shape and deliver successful outcomes.
- Design and deliver cloud-native platforms using best practices for resilience, performance, DevOps, and automation.
- Play a key role in pre-sales, bids, and proposal development, contributing to strategy, estimation, and solution assurance.
- Mentor and support other architects and engineers within the team.
Description
We, at Anson McCade, are proud to partner with a high-growth digital consultancy that supports large-scale transformation programmes across the UK's public sector, defence, and healthcare domains. This is a remote-first role with occasional travel to client sites as required. We are looking for a Principal Platform Architect to lead the design and delivery of modern, scalable, cloud-native platforms. This opportunity is ideal for someone with a consulting background who has experience in major transformation projects within sectors such as central government, healthcare (e.g., NHS), or defence. If you are passionate about driving impactful change and meet the listed requirements, we'd love to hear from you.
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