On behalf of DWP we are looking for a Technical Architect for a 12 month (Inside IR35) contract. Hybrid working with 3 days per week required in either Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham, Blackpool or Newcastle. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK''s biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives. The Care Service programme is a strategic transformation initiative aimed at simplifying and unifying benefit-related services into a single, user-centred model. It operates within a complex ecosystem of Legacy systems, evolving policy frameworks, and cross-cutting digital platforms such as Customer Account and Colleague View. Architects are critical to this transformation, ensuring that technical solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with both user needs and policy intent. Our initial focus will be around the operational source system of the Care Service:. The data model to support the service.. Understanding data quality standards that need to be applied.. Creating a metadata capability. Answering questions such as: How can we interface with Legacy untrusted data? How can we minimise the manual process