Salary: £80,000 – 80,000 per year
Requirements
- We need strong technical architecture experience, including designing secure, scalable and user‑centred digital services.
- We need experience producing high‑level designs, translating them into practical delivery plans and taking them through governance or assurance boards.
- We need strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to work across agile, multidisciplinary teams.
- We need experience designing secure cloud solutions using AWS and/or Azure.
- We need experience working in cloud or multi‑cloud environments, including cloud networking, platform design and integration.
- We need experience building resilient, scalable and performant cloud architectures, with an understanding of cloud standards, patterns and best practice.
- We require SC clearance and the ability to meet the UK residency requirement of having been present in the UK for 3 out of the past 5 years.
Responsibilities
- We will define and champion the technical strategy for services, ensuring alignment with user needs, business goals and DDaT standards.
- We will lead technical specialists across multiple projects, solving complex architectural challenges and owning the technical design of services.
- We will design and assure secure, open‑source and user‑centred systems, including integration, interoperability, cloud quality, security and performance.
- We will provide technical governance, present designs to boards such as the Technical Design Authority, and collaborate with architects across DBT to ensure alignment.
- We will horizon scan for emerging technologies, contribute to the architecture community, mentor peers and support capability development within the profession.
Technologies
- AWS
- Architect
- Azure
- Cloud
- Support
- Security
- dbt
- AI
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We are the Department for Business and Trade (DBT), offering a cloud-focused Technical Architect opportunity to help shape and advance our cloud capability across AWS and Azure. This is a flexible, hybrid role based from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, with excellent Civil Service benefits, a 29% employer pension contribution, learning and development support, annual leave starting at 25 days, and a culture that encourages inclusion and diversity. We work in a cloud‑first environment on modern, varied and meaningful technology programmes that support trade, business and economic growth across the UK. You will join a collaborative architecture community and help shape technical direction across a broad and important digital estate.
last updated 26 week of 2026
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