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Technical Architect - Data Platform
£15,000 - 20,000
London Road 69, Birmingham
£15,000 - 20,000
Requirements
Must:
- Proven experience as a Senior / Lead Technical Architect in complex brownfield environments.
- Deep expertise in data platform architecture, including ingestion patterns, schema evolution, and microservice integration.
- Strong AWS + Azure multi-cloud integration experience.
- Background working within government, public sector, or regulated environments.
- Strong infrastructure, security & network architecture experience (Zscaler, VPCs, VPN, identity).
- Experience modernising critical platforms while maintaining live service delivery.
- Strong governance, security assurance and SRE handover experience.
- Excellent stakeholder communication and leadership skills.
- Strong technical documentation skills (Confluence / SharePoint).
Responsibilities
- Lead the re-architecture of an established enterprise data platform (DWX).
- Support new microservice-based upstream integrations and large-scale schema evolution (300+ schemas).
- Design strategies to merge 3-5 years of legacy data with new data models while maintaining consistent user journeys.
- Define modernisation approaches that minimise disruption to live services.
- Design modern ingestion, transformation, and storage patterns.
- Define migration and schema transition strategies that maintain data quality, lineage, and service continuity.
- Architect phased rollout approaches to reduce operational risk.
- Lead the transition from bespoke UC MacBook/VPC setups to standardised DWP environments using Zscaler.
- Define secure connectivity models between AWS-hosted platforms and Azure-based DWP environments.
- Ensure secure cross-cloud data transfer, compliance, and governance.
- Assess existing technology choices and define migration strategies to DWP-aligned standards.
- Produce architecture options, technical roadmaps, and ADRs.
- Drive reduction of technical debt and alignment to DWP Digital Blueprint and Enterprise Architecture standards.
- Act as senior architectural authority across DWX and related platforms.
- Provide architectural assurance, governance, and strategic technical leadership.
Description
We are a dynamic team seeking a highly experienced Technical Architect to lead the architectural modernisation of a large-scale, mission-critical data platform within DWP. This is a fully remote role with expensed travel, offering a competitive daily rate of £500 to £520 inside IR35. Youll play a pivotal role in transforming a complex brownfield data estate while ensuring uninterrupted service delivery, impacting millions of UK citizens. Join us in shaping the future of our platform!
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