DWIT Technical Architect

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• We require active SC Clearance for this role.
• We need a hands-on data architect with experience analysing complex legacy environments, documenting data flows and supporting cloud transformation or migration activity.
• We expect experience producing architecture documentation and analysis outputs to agreed standards, with enough clarity and evidence to support review, decision-making and delivery planning.
• We require experience documenting and analysing complex legacy data feeds, interfaces, schedules, source systems, consumers, business rules, service dependencies and operational constraints.
• We need experience supporting migration and transformation approaches for AWS-based data services, including data pipelines, storage, processing, integration, security, monitoring and support considerations.
• We expect experience contributing to decommissioning planning for legacy platforms and services, including dependency analysis, migration sequencing, risk identification and evidence-based retirement decisions.
• We require experience working within architecture governance in a large, multi-supplier environment, including preparing artefacts for design assurance, decision control, risk management and alignment to enterprise standards.
• We need experience using AI and automation tools to improve the speed and quality of discovery, documentation, analysis and architecture production, with appropriate checking and evidence.
• We expect experience across on-premise, cloud or hybrid environments, with an understanding of the practical challenges involved in transforming legacy services to AWS.
• We require clear communication and facilitation skills, especially when gathering information, validating findings and explaining legacy dependencies or transformation impacts.

Responsibilities:

• We are responsible for producing detailed analysis, documentation and architecture artefacts to support the transformation of existing data feeds to AWS and the planned decommissioning of legacy services.
• We work under the direction of Lead Architects to turn complex legacy information into clear, structured and delivery-ready outputs.
• We discover, analyse and document existing data feeds, interfaces, dependencies, service ownership, operational constraints and business usage.
• We apply agreed documentation standards, templates and quality expectations so feed analysis is consistent, traceable and usable by engineering, delivery, operations and governance teams.
• We support the definition of target-state AWS transformation approaches for existing feeds, including data movement, processing, integration, security, resilience, observability and support considerations.
• We contribute to decommissioning strategies for legacy services by documenting dependencies, migration sequencing, risks, parallel running needs, cutover considerations and retirement evidence.
• We use AI-enabled tools to accelerate feed discovery, documentation, code and metadata analysis, dependency identification and production of draft architecture artefacts, with appropriate review by Lead Architects.
• We capture assumptions, risks, issues and decisions clearly, ensuring they are visible to Lead Architects and supported by evidence where possible.
• We work with Lead Architects, delivery leads, engineers, operations teams, client stakeholders and third parties to gather information, validate findings and support realistic transformation and decommissioning plans.
• We prepare architecture artefacts for review, including feed documentation, dependency maps, option summaries, impact assessments, risk logs and design inputs.
• We communicate findings clearly and escalate gaps, conflicts, risks or incomplete information that could affect delivery confidence.

Technologies:

• AI
• AWS
• Architect
• Cloud
• Support
• Security

More:

We are a well-known organisation based in Telford, and this is a 6-month contract role that requires on-site working two days per week and falls inside IR35. The role sits within our DWIT transformation programme, where we are moving existing data feeds and legacy services onto AWS and planning the safe decommissioning of legacy services. Our team works closely with architects, engineers, delivery teams, operations teams, client stakeholders and third parties in a complex multi-supplier environment. We use disciplined discovery, clear documentation and practical architectural judgement to support migration, transformation and retirement planning, and we also use AI-enabled tools as an accelerator to improve speed and consistency, with outputs carefully checked before use.

last updated 31 week of 2026