# Freelance System Engineer / Technical Architect

Role Details: Level: Lead Start Date: December Duration: 6 months Day Rate: Dependent on experience Weekly hours: 5 days/ week Location: Hybrid, 2 days a week in London We're looking for a Systems Engineer / Technical Architect to help us reimagine a function of government as part of an agentic ecosystem. You'll join a small multidisciplinary team of designers, researchers and engineers, working closely with civil servants and the department's own technical teams. You'll own working out what the new system is. What are the constituent pieces, how do they fit together, and what’s needed to make it secure, accountable and auditable? The role suits someone who can sketch a target architecture on Monday and make it real with a prototype by Friday. In this role you will: Design the target architecture based high-level requirements and constraints, agentic capabilities and best practices Recommend approaches to new challenges such as delegated authority and permissions Set out security, resilience and threat risks and mitigations, including agent-specific risks such as prompt injection and automated abuse Design and build the components that make the system accountable and auditable,

- **Id**: 4240541
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/projects-by-if-freelance-system-engineer-technical-architect>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: freelance
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T10:10:31Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T12:01:13Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3552
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Creative Agencies

## Company

- **Id**: 691093
- **Name**: Projects by IF
- **Domain**: projectsbyif.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/projectsbyif>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T12:01:13Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 36
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T14:59:07Z

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