Senior Technical Architect

We're looking for strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills. A Software Development background would be helpful, and comfortable with tech such as Java/Kotlin, TypeScript and AWS.

The Senior Technical Architect needs expertise in:

• Architectural Strategy & Definition: Expertise in architectural decomposition, defining domain boundaries, and translating high-level vision into actionable roadmaps.

• Technical Authority & Governance: The ability to act as the lead technical authority, ensuring the blueprint and transition strategies are robust and aligned with governance.

• Strategic Transition Analysis: Deep knowledge of various transition approaches (e.g. API façade, event-sourced replication) to make formal, evaluated recommendations.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Proven ability to communicate and secure endorsement for technical direction with senior stakeholders like the Buyer's Principal Technical Architect and Programme Lead.

• Experience of communicating technical concepts and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Experience of evaluating technology options, prioritising between requirements, and making recommendations

• Experience developing and reviewing architecture artefacts, including architecture modelling (C4, ArchiMate, UML), using tools such as Visio, Lucidchart, Draw.io

• Strong written communication skills and experience creating and reviewing technical documentation

• Experience of modern software development best practice eg containerisation, CI/CD

• Experience replacing legacy systems

• A technology and platform agnostic perspective