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Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements: Proven experience as a Service Architect within large, complex enterprise environments.Strong understanding of enterprise architecture, cloud technologies, and service integration.Experience designing secure, highly available, and scalable IT services.Excellent knowledge of IT service management frameworks such as ITIL and architecture frameworks including TOGAF.Strong stakeholder management, communication, and problem-solving skills.Experience working within secure or government environments is highly desirable.Relevant certifications such as TOGAF, ITIL, AWS, or Azure are advantageous. Responsibilities: Design and develop end-to-end service architectures aligned with business objectives.Define service design standards, governance, and architectural best practices.Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and high-performing IT services.Collaborate with technical teams, stakeholders, and suppliers to deliver architectural solutions.Evaluate and recommend technologies, platforms, and tools that support long-term service strategy.Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, and regulatory requirements.Provide technical leadership throughout the service lifecycle.Review and enhance existing services to improve performance, resilience, and operational efficiency. Technologies: AWSArchitectAzureCloudSupportITILSecurityTOGAF More:
We are offering an exciting opportunity for an experienced Service Architect to join a high-profile government programme delivering critical IT services within a secure enterprise environment. You will work on a major MOD project, influencing strategic technology decisions alongside senior technical stakeholders. This is a contract role paying £700 to £740 per day plus margin, outside IR35, based full-time onsite in Basingstoke. We are also offering exposure to enterprise-scale technologies and complex architecture challenges, with the potential for long-term contract extensions.
last updated 32 week of 2026