Summary: The Technical Architect role involves working on a large AWS-based developer platform in the UK, supporting over 100 teams and critical workloads. Architects will gather requirements, assist delivery teams with challenges, and contribute to long-term strategies. Active SC Clearance is required for this contract position, which runs until September 2026. The role demands strong collaboration with other architects and effective communication across various levels of the organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Gather and understand new requirements from teams, proposing design options and facilitating governance.
- Support delivery teams in resolving issues related to the roadmap and incidents.
- Contribute to long-term strategies and ad hoc tasks assigned by the Senior Management Team.
Key Skills:
- Strong understanding of core AWS services (VPCs, subnets, EC2, lambda, s3, route 53, VPC endpoints).
- Good understanding of networking (TCP/IP, DNS, routing, proxy patterns).
- Good understanding of containers and Kubernetes architecture.
- Design documentation skills.
- Influencing, negotiating, and pragmatism in design assurance processes.
- Problem-solving and options analysis.
- Evidence-based decision-making.
- Excellent communication skills.
Salary (Rate): £518.54 daily
City: Croydon
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Role Title: Technical Architect
Duration: contract to run until 30/09/2026
Location: Croydon, Hybrid
Rate: up to £518.54 p/d Umbrella inside IR35
Clearance required: Active SC Clearance is required
Role Purpose / Summary
Solution Architects are required for one of the largest AWS based developer platforms in the UK, which supports 100+ teams and runs multiple critical workloads. The work our architect's take on is split into three key areas. Firstly, architects pick up new requirements from our teams, understand their needs, proposing options and getting the design governed and into delivery teams. Due to the scale of the platform, solutions often touch multiple areas and close working with other architects is essential to ensure 'tribal knowledge' is exploited. The second area is supporting teams with delivery and service. Inevitably delivery teams encounter problems in delivering against the roadmap or with incidents that need architect support to analyse and resolve. Lastly, architects work on longer term strategies or ad hoc pieces of work delegated by the Senior Management Team.
Mandatory Key Skills and Experience
- Strong understanding of core AWS services; VPCs, subnets, EC2, lambda, s3, route 53, VPC endpoints
- Good understanding of networking - TCP/IP, DNS, routing, proxy patterns
- Good understanding of containers and Kubernetes (does not require detailed Kubernetes knowledge, more the broad architecture)
- Design documentation skills
- Influencing, negotiating & pragmatism - getting designs through assurance processes
- Problem solving and options analysis
- Evidence based decision making
- Excellent communication skills, ranging from getting a junior engineer's input into a design to explaining a complex technical issue to a senior leader
Optional
Our architects work across a wide range of technologies and as such are expected to be able to quickly learn and adapt to unfamiliar tools. Whilst not essential, it is desirable architects have expertise in the following;
- Elasticsearch Stack
- Dynatrace
- Prometheus & Grafana
- AWS EKS & KOPS
- Hashicorp Consul/ Vault
- VPNs - e.g. OpenVPN, Fortigate site to site VPNs
- Atlassian tooling - e.g. Bitbucket, confluence, JIRA, Crowd
- AWS Workspaces
- LDAP
- Redhat SSO & OIDC
- Firewalling technologies - e.g. AWS Network Firewall, Fortigate
- Proxy Servers - e.g. nginx, openresty, squid, fortiweb
- DevOps - e.g. Terraform, Concourse, Sonarqube
- Transit Gateway
All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!
