Technical Architect

Technical Architect - £660 per day - Inside IR35 - Hybrid working 2-3 days a week from central London site - 6 months initial contract.

We are recruiting for an experienced Technical Architect to join a major UK nuclear new build programme, supporting one of the countrys most significant infrastructure and energy projects.

This is an opportunity to play a key role in shaping the technical architecture of a complex, highly regulated organisation, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, resilient and aligned with long-term business objectives.

Working closely with the Technical Assurance Manager, you will act as a lead design authority across assigned projects, providing technical leadership, architectural governance and assurance throughout the project lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities -

• Act as the lead technical design authority across assigned projects, ensuring solutions align with enterprise architecture standards and regulatory requirements.
• Design, review and assure technical architectures spanning cloud, infrastructure, networks, integration services and application platforms.
• Work closely with the Technical Assurance Manager to deliver architectural assurance from initial design through to operational handover.
• Provide technical oversight of supplier-delivered solutions, ensuring quality, compliance and adherence to agreed architectural principles.
• Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to translate requirements into technically viable, secure and sustainable solutions.
• Support architectural governance activities, including participation in Architecture Review Boards.
• Ensure cyber security is embedded into technical designs from the outset.
• Support integration planning and interoperability across a complex, multi-supplier technology environment.
• Identify emerging technologies and recommend opportunities to improve efficiency, resilience and long-term capability.
• Identify, assess and escalate technical delivery risks, supporting effective decision-making throughout the project lifecycle.

Experience Required

We are looking for an established Technical Architect with experience delivering and assuring enterprise-scale solutions within complex or regulated environments.

Essential experience includes:

• Extensive experience in technical architecture roles, ideally supporting large-scale programmes or complex enterprise environments.
• Strong technical knowledge across cloud platforms, infrastructure, networking, application platforms and systems integration.
• Proven experience designing and assuring secure, scalable, reliable and cost-effective technical solutions.
• Experience providing architectural governance and technical oversight of third-party and supplier-delivered solutions.
• A strong understanding of cyber security principles and their application within regulated environments.
• Experience operating within multi-supplier delivery environments, managing technical dependencies and ensuring architectural consistency.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions and communicate effectively with senior business and IT stakeholders.
• Eligibility to obtain UK Security Check (SC) clearance.

Desirable Experience -

• Previous experience within nuclear, energy, critical national infrastructure or similarly regulated sectors.
• Professional certifications such as TOGAF, ITIL, Microsoft Azure, AWS or Google Cloud.
• Familiarity with large-scale digital transformation programmes and emerging enterprise technologies.
• Knowledge of EDF Group digital initiatives or lessons learned from major UK nuclear infrastructure programmes.

Why Apply?

• This is an opportunity to contribute to a nationally significant nuclear new build programme, helping establish the technology foundations required to support the delivery and long-term operation of critical UK energy infrastructure.
• You will work within a technically complex environment, collaborating with experienced engineering, digital and technology professionals while influencing architectural decisions across a major multi-supplier programme.
• If you are an experienced Technical Architect looking to apply your expertise within one of the UKs most ambitious infrastructure projects, we would welcome your application.