Lead Technical Architect

Job Description:

• Location: Hybrid
• Rate: Inside IR35
• Duration: Initial 5 weeks contract with potential extension
• Clearance: Active SC Clearance required

About the role

We are seeking a Lead Technical Architect to join one of our Government Clients. You will lead the creation of a solution high-level design to support key environmental and sustainability initiatives

You will be working closely with domain specialists, enterprise architects, and engineering teams, you will establish a robust architecture to resolve complex data ingestion challenges. A primary objective is validating and documenting high level requirements to ensure the solution is fully prepared for market tender

Key Responsibilities

• Solution High-Level Design: Facilitate key discovery sessions to shape, define, and produce a comprehensive Solution design aligned with departmental objectives
• Requirements Validation and Documentation: Collaborate across technical and non technical teams to capture, validate, and formalise high level requirements into procurement ready documentation
• Tender Readiness: Structure technical specifications and architectural boundaries to enable seamless market engagement for future contract implementation
• Data Integration Strategy: Architect a target data pattern capable of ingesting, transforming, and standardising complex multi source datasets

Essential Experience and Skills

• Proven track record as a Lead Solution Architect delivering HLDs within short timeframe engagements
• Data and ETL Expertise: Extensive experience designing architectures that handle disparate data sources, formats, and legacy/modern systems, with a focus on ETL pipelines and normalising to a single data pattern
• Public Sector Frameworks: Hands on experience preparing functional and technical requirements for UK Public Sector procurement
• Stakeholder Management: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to bridge the gap between policy/sustainability leads, technical architects, and delivery engineers

Desirable Experience

• Background working with central government departments or public sector agencies
• Exposure to environmental data

£650.00 / day

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