Technical Architect

Hoare Lea
Cambridge, United Kingdom
4 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
£ 218K

Job location

Remote
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Computer-Aided Design
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Azure
Cloud Computing
Data as a Services
Software Engineering
Systems Architecture
Systems Integration
Network Routers
Google Cloud Platform
Load Balancing
Firewalls (Computer Science)

Job description

Our Principal Technical Architects are responsible for leading and delivering strategically significant, complex client engagements across our portfolio of clients. We believe that great delivery stems from a thorough understanding of our clients and their needs, strong discipline skills and subject matter expertise, excellent leadership and a clear vision of lasting and effective change in a public sector environment. We expect our Principal Technical Architects to bring all of that and enthuse our delivery teams with the same passion.

The successful candidate will lead the Technical Architecture and Cyber aspects of our client engagements while overseeing the wider delivery within the account (or industry) when appropriate. They will coach and develop team members on their engagements providing them with detailed performance feedback, as well as monitoring overall delivery to achieve the highest levels of client satisfaction.

In addition, our Principal Technical Architects are responsible for engaging with our clients to understand their challenges and build lasting, trusted advisor relationships. They will also oversee multiple, concurrent client deliveries to help ensure quality and drive the sharing of best practice across our engagements and industries.

Our Principal Technical Architects are members of the Technical Architecture and Cyber Practice leadership team with the responsibility to develop the capability of the practice to meet business needs and to accelerate the growth of the practice, their account and the wider business.

You will be responsible for the practice and service line-specific delivery elements of your engagement/account as well as a shared ownership for the overall delivery of client outcomes. You will leverage your client and delivery insight to support the account and industry teams to identify opportunities and develop client solutions.

The right person for this role will combine technical discipline/craft experience, leadership skills and industry network with Made Tech's unparalleled experience of delivering digital services and digital transformation for the Public Sector., * Collaborate with clients to understand their needs, provide solution advice as a trusted advisor and shape solutions that leverage Made Tech's wider capabilities and credentials.

  • Assess project performance as part of the billable delivery team, Quality-Assure deliverables and outcomes, and ensure client satisfaction. Coach and mentor team members and provide direction to enable them to achieve engagement outcomes and develop their careers.
  • Act as a Technical Authority (of your appropriate capability) to provide oversight and ensure alignment with internal and industry best practices. Capture engagement experience for continuous improvement and contribute to Made Tech knowledge.
  • Participate in business development activities, including bids and pre-sales within the account, industry and practice. Coach team members on their contributions and oversee relevant technical aspects of proposals.
  • Undertake people-management responsibilities, including performance reviews and professional development of engagement and practice colleagues.
  • Serve as a thought leader within Made Tech, our account engagements and the wider public sector and represent the company at industry events., As an increasing number of our customers specify a minimum SC (security check) clearance for projects, successful candidates for this role must be eligible. SC eligibility requires 5 years of continuous UK residency. If at any point during the interview process it is apparent that you may not be eligible for SC, we will not be able to progress your application and will contact you to let you know why. #J-18808-Ljbffr Similar jobs, The Role We are seeking an experienced Senior Technical Architect to act as a technical authority across complex systems and services. What You'll Do - Act as the technical authority for systems and services across multiple programmes. - Define, evolve, and govern..., The Role We are seeking an experienced Senior Technical Architect to act as a technical authority across complex systems and services. What You'll Do Act as the technical authority for systems and services across multiple programmes. Define, evolve, and govern architectures...

Requirements

  • Understanding of public-sector challenges in delivering data-rich digital services, transforming legacy infrastructure and adopting innovative, user-centric approaches.
  • Ability to innovate and translate learnings from the commercial sector, other countries and emerging technologies into UK public-sector solutions.
  • Experience building trusted advisor relationships with senior client stakeholders.

Leadership

  • Experience building and leading high-performing consulting teams and creating leveraged engagements to provide cost-effective, profitable, client-facing delivery.
  • Leadership of bids and solution shaping to produce compelling proposals that help Made Tech win new business and grow the industry.
  • Experience managing third-party partnerships and suppliers in conjunction with Made Tech colleagues to deliver a seamless team for clients., * Experience delivering complex engagements spanning multiple capabilities for user-facing digital and data services in the public sector.
  • Experience identifying opportunities based on client needs and developing targeted solutions to progress opportunity development.
  • Experience working with sales professionals and commercial responsibility for strategic organisational goals.

Technical Architecture

  • Demonstrable and proven experience designing software systems, with a varied background and understanding of legacy architectures and cutting-edge patterns.
  • History in software engineering, delivering code as part of a development team, and collaborating with engineers to plan work complexity.
  • Expert-level understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP and multi-cloud configurations.
  • Deep expertise in enterprise systems architecture, networking, firewalls, routers, load balancers and security protocols, ensuring scalable, secure and high-performance integrations.
  • Experience architecting systems across the lifecycle, building new systems, supporting deployment and planning clean decommissioning of older systems.
  • Proven track record of consultancy across a variety of industries, recognised by clients as a technical advisor.
  • Experience working within multidisciplinary teams with product, design and technical disciplines.
  • Experience working directly with Cloud vendors and partner programmes such as AWS APN and Azure Partners.
  • Expert-level knowledge of well-architected frameworks and vendor-endorsed best practices.
  • Relevant certifications at the expert / practitioner level.
  • Knowledge of UK public-sector technology guidance and frameworks such as NCSC's Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) and the Technology Code of Practice (TCoP).

Benefits & conditions

  • ️ 30 days Holiday - we offer 30 days of paid annual leave plus bank holidays.
  • Flexible Parental Leave - flexible parental leave options.
  • Remote Working - part-time remote working for all staff.
  • Paid counselling - paid counselling as well as financial and legal advice.
  • Flexible benefit platform including Smart Tech, Cycle to Work, health-care cash plan and pension plan options.
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About the company

We believe tech can make public services better. We also believe this can happen best when our own team represents the society that actually uses the services we work on. We're collectively continuing to grow a culture that is happy, healthy, safe and inspiring for people of all backgrounds and experiences, so we encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply for roles with us. When you apply, we'll put you in touch with a talent partner who can help with any needs or adjustments we may need to make to help with your application, including alternative formats for documents, interview timing and any other needs. We also welcome feedback on how we can improve the experience for future candidates. We're committed to building a happy, inclusive and diverse workforce. You can get a sense of what it's like working here from our blog, where we talk about mental health, communities of practice and neurodiversity (as well as our client work and best practice). Like many organisations, we use Slack to foster a sense of community and connection. As well as special interest groups such as music, food and pets, we also have 10+ Slack channels dedicated to specific communities, allies and identities as well as dedicated learning spaces called communities of practice (COPs). If you'd like to speak to someone from one of these groups about their experience as an employee, please do let a member of the Made Tech talent team know., About Graphcore Graphcore is one of the world's leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence compute. It is developing hardware, software and systems infrastructure that will unlock the next generation of AI breakthroughs and power the widespread adoption of AI solutions..., Graphcore is one of the world's leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence compute. It is developing hardware, software and systems infrastructure that will unlock the next generation of AI breakthroughs and power the widespread adoption of AI solutions across every..., I am supporting a client seeking a Principal Compensation Architect with deep expertise in Workday Core and Advanced Compensation and global compensation frameworks. They are a large manufacturing organisation (50,000+ employees) operating in over 60 countries, and have a..., A technology company in Bristol is seeking a Principal Architect to define and drive the architectural vision for their ML accelerator software stack. This role requires expertise in firmware, drivers, and ML frameworks, alongside excellent communication and collaborative..., About us: AND Digital are a tech company focused on accelerating digital delivery and dedicated to closing the digital skills gap. We've been helping organisations build better digital products and stronger digital teams since 2014. We believe our work should always leave..., A leading AI innovation firm in Bristol is seeking a Principal Architect to define the architectural vision for the software stack of its ML accelerator. This role involves shaping the software ecosystem architecture while communicating effectively with engineering teams....

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