Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
AWS Technical Architect
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Job Summary
We are MHCLG
Here at the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG), we work on things that make a real difference to people’s lives. Whether it's through the homes we live in, the work of our local councils, or the communities we’re all part of, our work is at the top of the political agenda. We have ambitious and far-reaching outcomes to achieve this year and, if you’re thinking of joining us, there’s never been a more exciting time.
As the AWS Technical Architect, you will own the technical architecture of the department’s AWS platform, providing clear architectural direction and assurance across a diverse portfolio of digital services. Working in close partnership with Enterprise Architects, you will translate departmental IT strategy, target architecture, and roadmaps into a coherent, secure, and operable AWS platform that meets government standards for security, resilience, and value for money. You will provide architectural leadership to multidisciplinary delivery teams, ensuring the platform enables consistent, reusable, and compliant digital service delivery. This includes setting architectural patterns and guardrails, supporting design decisions, and ensuring services are aligned to cloud, security, and operational best practice across their full lifecycle—from rapid prototyping through to large-scale, production-grade systems.
The team operates in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of autonomy. You will be self-motivated, comfortable with ambiguity, and motivated by solving complex technical challenges. You will enjoy exploring new approaches and technologies, responding quickly to emerging requirements, and supporting teams working in Agile ways.
Find out more about our Digital teams and what they are working on through our MHCLG Digital blog. Please note that MHCLG do not offer visa sponsorship and applicants will need a valid visa for the duration of your employment.
Job Description
As an AWS Technical Architect, you'll:
- Own and evolve the AWS platform architecture, including landing zones, identity and access management, networking, logging, monitoring and guardrails
- Work closely with Enterprise Architects to align AWS platform decisions with the departmental IT strategy, target architecture and architectural roadmaps
- Translate enterprise architecture principles and strategic direction into practical platform standards, patterns and reusable components
- Lead architectural decision making for the AWS platform, documenting decisions and managing trade offs across risk, cost, operability and performance
- Provide architectural assurance and guidance to delivery teams, ensuring solutions align to platform standards and broader enterprise direction
- Embed security, resilience and compliance by design in partnership with cyber security and operations teams
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code patterns and "golden paths" that enable safe self service by delivery teams
- Identify platform risks, constraints and opportunities and feed these back into enterprise level strategy and roadmap discussions
- Mentor engineers and architects and contribute to communities of practice across the organisation
Person specification
As An AWS Technical Architect, You'll Have
- Extensive experience (minimum 2 years) designing and operating AWS platforms in an enterprise or government environment
- Experience owning platform architecture and aligning technical decisions to enterprise strategy and roadmaps
- Strong stakeholder management skills, including effective collaboration with Enterprise Architects and senior technical leaders
- Hands on experience using Infrastructure as Code to implement and evolve cloud platforms
- Proven ability to embed security, resilience and operability into platform design
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Alongside your salary of £58,092, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government contributes £16,829 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
At MHCLG we offer many benefits that range from tailored career pathways and flexible working to MyLifestyle Childcare Voucher and Cycle to Work Schemes. For more information, please click here.
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Selection process details
Application and Selection
The application process will be split into 2 stages, testing the following Success Profiles:
- Behaviours
- Experience
- Strengths
- Technical
Please ensure your CV does not contain any personally identifiable information.
Note: We do not consider direct CV applications. All applications must be submitted via the provided application link.
Stage 1: Sift (CV)
Experience & Technical: In your CV, please include:
- why you are interested in the role;
- how you meet the essential skills and experience required
Stage 2: Technical Ability Test
You will be invited for a technical test that will take between 30-40 minutes - the test will be scored and those that score above the benchmark will be invited to interview for the role.
Stage 3: Interview
Behaviours: "Making Effective Decisions" Experience: Experience questions will be based around the essential skills and criteria as listed in the job description. Technical: Technical questions will be based around the essential skills and criteria as listed in the job description. Strengths: The strength-based questions will require natural responses from the candidates.
Sift and Interview Dates
Sifting is envisaged to take place the week commencing 27th July 2026.
Interviews are envisaged to take place the week commencing 10th August 2026 and are currently being held remotely via videocall. This could be subject to change.
Group 1 Digital & Data Roles
MHCLG has implemented the Digital and Data capability framework for Group 1 roles. Applicants that are successful and have been offered a position will be required to complete a capability assessment after the interview.
MHCLG will honour completed capability assessments for this role from other Government Departments for existing civil servants on level transfer only. Please provide a copy of your capability assessment to the Hiring Manager when applying. If you have any queries on pay, please contact the Hiring Manager.
Each experience or technical skill is assessed between 1-3, representing working towards, at or above the job level requirements. You are awarded a proficiency level accordingly, and you will be given opportunity to annually re assess your capability and potentially increase your overall remuneration, through payment of allowances, depending on level of assessed capability.
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Candidates moving from another government department have the option to retain their current basic pay if this is within our pay band for the relevant grade.
Grade 7 Group 1 Digital and Data salary
The basic pay for this role will be between £63,483 – £72,287 (London), £58,092 – £66,742 (National). Candidates will usually be recruited to the median of the payscale. A digital allowance may also be payable depending on the level of assessed capability, in order to meet the MHCLG overall targeted remuneration rate for the specific grade, location and capability rating. For applicants in receipt of existing allowances, we will assess each case individually, but we would seek not to exceed the MHCLG overall targeted remuneration rate for the specific grade, location and capability rating for existing civil servants, the usual policy on level transfer and promotion will apply, subject to the statements above.
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Security Clearance Requirements
National Office: BPSS + SC
London Office: BPSS + SC
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Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window). See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
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Nationality requirements
This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DC
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