Lead Technical Architect
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Job description
Join a major Defence and National Security transformation programme as a Lead Technical Architect, guiding the design and delivery of secure, large scale services across IaaS, PaaS, and workplace environments. This is a senior technical leadership role where you will shape strategy, drive architecture direction, and lead multi skilled teams in delivering mission critical capabilities., * As a Lead Technical Architect, you will own the technical delivery of key service components from design through deployment and into live service.
- You will work closely with technical leadership to maintain cohesion across multiple technology areas while improving efficiency and delivery quality.
- You will contribute to strategic roadmaps, ensuring architectures remain aligned to long term business and customer needs.
- You will act as the technical lead for delivery teams, providing guidance, leadership, and architectural governance to maintain solution integrity.
- You will report directly to the Solution Lead to ensure alignment and visibility., Lead the technical direction of one of the UK's most critical digital transformation efforts as a Lead Technical Architect.
Requirements
- Extensive experience delivering secure, resilient, enterprise scale IaaS, PaaS, and workplace solutions.
- Proven ability to create and own HLDs and LLDs and maintain architectural documentation.
- Strong skills in problem solving, collaborative design, and communicating technical concepts.
- Experience leading and motivating multi disciplinary teams in Agile delivery environments.
- Senior level client facing experience with the ability to present ideas and challenge constructively.
- Must be a sole UK national with active DV clearance and experience in secure, mission critical programmes.
Benefits & conditions
Our role is to help our employees develop their careers through planning, coaching and training. We recognise everyone's contribution to our success and reward achievement at every level. Along with generous commission and bonus schemes, we offer a variety of on-the-spot rewards - from bottles of fizz, team nights out, and extra days off; to thrill-seeking experience days, social events and money off vouchers.