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Platform Architect
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Platform Architect – Applications, Identity & Digital Platforms
Location: London – Hybrid (2 days onsite initially, reducing to 1 day)
Rate: Up to £450 per day – Outside IR35
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We’re looking for an experienced Platform Architect to join a major UK organisation and take technical ownership of critical, enterprise-scale digital platforms.
You’ll provide architectural leadership across a complex technology estate spanning consumer applications, digital identity, and subscription/digital media platforms, defining architecture patterns, capability roadmaps, and technical standards.
What you’ll be doing:
- Own and define the technical architecture for critical platforms
- Establish architecture patterns, principles, and anti-patterns
- Govern solutions through Design Authority
- Review and assure technical designs, builds, and sizing estimates
- Work across applications, identity, APIs, microservices, and integration technologies
- Ensure platforms meet requirements around resilience, scalability, performance, and lifecycle management
- Resolve complex technical escalations and architectural blockers
- Partner with senior technical, business, and vendor stakeholders
- Help shape platform capability roadmaps and future investment
- Explore opportunities to use AI, LLMs, and automation to improve architecture processes
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What we’re looking for:
- Deep Platform Architecture / Enterprise Architecture experience
- Strong enterprise-scale system design background
- Strong technical knowledge across at least two relevant digital platform areas
- Proven experience working with or governing Design Authorities
- Strong understanding of NFRs, resilience, and platform health
- Experience assuring complex technical solutions
- Strong stakeholder and vendor management skills
- Comfortable operating across large, complex enterprise technology environments
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Experience within telecommunications, media, streaming, digital identity, or large-scale consumer technology platforms would be particularly relevant.
£450/day Outside IR35 | London/Hybrid | 2 days onsite initially, with scope to reduce to 1 day
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