Lead Technical Architect
London
Lead Technical Architect
Preferred Experience/Qualifications:
Department: Cloud/DevOpps
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: London
Compensation: £90,000 - £100,000 / year
Description
Job Title: Lead Technical Architect – Integration and Solution Delivery Location: Remote with a minimum of 1-2 days per week on site Winchester, Farnborough, Croydon, Bromley. This is non-negotiable as this is not a 100% remote role. Must have or be eligible for UK Security Clearance, and Non-Police Personnel Vetting Level 3 (NPPV3). About the Role: We are looking for a dynamic, experienced and highly skilled Lead Technical Architect with expertise in systems delivery assurance and integration architectures to join our team. You will play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and overseeing the delivery of solutions for large-scale mission-critical systems to meet business user/customer expectations. You will have at least 8 years of demonstrable expert-level architecture and technical leadership experience, including deep knowledge of application and integration architectures. You will define and communicate architectures, provide client-facing strategic and technical direction and perform strong and detailed assurance of supplier solution deliveries.Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to client technical teams, guiding them through complex technical challenges and architectural decisions.
- Develop solutions that conform to organisational standards, principles, strategies, and technical and commercial constraints.
- Understand business customer demands and requirements, and ensure alignment to system supplier deliveries.
- Evaluate and provide technical assurance for supplier solutions.
- Apply assurance and governance to supplier deliveries to meet desired business outcomes.
- Develop and maintain technology roadmaps for client systems.
- Oversee the capture of requirements and provide technical input to procurements and tenders.
- Work closely with project management and commercial teams to ensure delivery alignment and commercial compliance.
- Contribute to technical design authorities communicating ideas and seeking consensus.
- Perform a Systems Integration role, ensuring supplier solutions and deliveries align.
- Ensure solution compliance with security and governance standards and frameworks.
- Work with client and supplier quality and test organisations to ensure adequate quality in delivery of complex solutions.
- Ensure that architectures are compliant with industry regulations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA) and company security policies, and ensure appropriate security controls are implemented across all solutions.
- Work closely with client and supplier teams, and stakeholders to ensure that architectural strategies align with both technical and business objectives.
- Identify and mitigate technical risks in supplier solutions and deliveries to meet stakeholder objectives.
- Develop and maintain architectural standards, design patterns, and documentation, ensuring a shared understanding of technical solutions. Capturing/documenting architectural decisions.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- 8+ years of experience of senior technical leadership, including defining architectures and being responsible for the technical success of large-scale mission-critical systems.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with both client and supplier teams and provide technical mentorship.
- Expert level experience of application and integration architectures.
- Extensive experience of systems integration and working with large IT Services organisations.
- Proven experience in client-facing technical leadership roles.
- Experience of secure solutions delivery.
- Experience of working with architecture methods, tools and frameworks
- Experience defining technology roadmaps, technology transformation strategies and transitional architectures.
- Proven experience of project management aspects, particularly for planning, and risk and dependency management.
- An excellent and self-reliant communicator – being able to create, document and communicate architectural, strategic and solution delivery aspects.
- Ability to work in Multi-supplier environment
- Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field or professional equivalent may be considered.
Preferred Experience/Qualifications:
- Experience of large-scale distributed processing systems
- Experience of architecting and delivering biometric processing systems (fingerprint, face, DNA).
- Experience of other architectural disciplines i.e. business, data, performance, infrastructure, security.
- Experience of engineering cloud-based solutions.
- Delivery of government secure solution delivery.
- Experience of solution service integration.
- Experience of test approaches for large-scale system deliveries.
- Demonstrable architecture skills and experience to an industry benchmarked level.
- Expertise in compliance standards such as GDPR, HIPAA, SOC2, and ISO 27001.
Why Apply?
- An important and visible technical leadership role with the opportunity to work on national and international-scale solutions.
- A unique opportunity to work in the rapidly growing area of biometric systems.
- An opportunity to be a key part of a deeply experienced and expert team of architects and technology delivery experts, working within a dynamic and fast-growing business.
- Be involved with technology delivery with learning opportunities across cutting edge technologies and varied architectural disciplines.
- Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
- Continuous learning and development opportunities, including cloud certifications.
- A collaborative and innovative work environment.
- Opportunity for annual performance based bonus
Job Profile
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Not fully remote On-site required 1-2 days per week
Benefits/PerksCareer development Mentorship opportunities Remote work flexibility
Tasks- Design solutions
- Ensure compliance
- Evaluate supplier solutions
- Implement systems
- Oversee delivery
- Provide technical leadership
Application architectures Architecture frameworks Architecture methods Architecture tools Cloud DevOps GDPR HIPAA Integration architectures Security Compliance Solution delivery Stakeholder management Systems delivery assurance Systems Integration Technical Leadership Technical mentorship
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