Senior Technical Architect

• Senior Technical Architect (Microservices & Distributed Systems)
• 7 months contract
• Must be SC clearance eligible

Talent Consulting are seeking a highly skilled Senior Technical Architect with proven central government experience to help our client assess and provide design assurance across a complex ecosystem comprising microservices, monoliths, singleton applications and distributed monoliths.

• Conduct comprehensive architectural assessments of existing microservices, monoliths and distributed systems
• Evaluate current architectural patterns and identify opportunities for optimisation
• Develop strategic recommendations to support architectural evolution and modernisation
• Provide design assurance and technical governance across multiple application types
• Create migration roadmaps from monolithic to microservice architectures, where appropriate
• Establish architectural standards and best practices for microservice development
• Collaborate with development teams to implement architectural improvements
• Public Sector/ Central Government is essential
• Extensive experience in microservice architecture design and implementation
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems architectural patterns and anti-patterns
• Expertise in API design, service mesh technologies and containerisation
• Experience with cloud-native application architectures (on Open Shift)
• Proficiency in evaluating and recommending appropriate technology stacks
• Strong understanding of Dev Ops practices and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience in architectural modernisation and legacy system transformation
• Need to have lived in the UK for 5 years or more & need to be eligibility for SC Clearance

• 5+ years’ experience in software development, with at least 2 years in architectural roles
• Proven track record of delivering successful architecture transformation programmes
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholder