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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Lead Technical Architect - **Company:** Government Digital Service - **Location:** London, UK (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £72,825.0 - £91,855.0 - **Contract:** Temporary to permanent - **Skills:** Microsoft Windows, Collaborative Software, Identity and Access Management, User Environment Management, SC Clearance, Legacy Systems - **Published:** July 12, 2026 - **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a247b9b0b954343d ## About the Role * considerable experience providing technical architecture leadership for large-scale, user-facing platforms or services, working to support wider organisational objectives beyond your immediate goals * experience setting and delivering technology strategies that align with organisational objectives * strong experience creating technical designs characterised by high risk, impact and complexity within Digital Workplace or End User Computing technologies * experience designing and assuring architectural solutions operating at enterprise or multi-team scale and managing risks at the appropriate level * experience actively engaging with others, such as suppliers and commercial colleagues, including architectural input to procurement and assurance and adapting your feedback to ensure its effective and lasting * the ability to communicate complex technical issues clearly to senior technical and non-technical stakeholders * advanced expertise in one or more of the following; end user computing and device management, collaboration and productivity platforms (for example Microsoft 365), identity and access management, security, compliance and information governance, and integration and interoperability, * seeing the bigger picture * working together * making effective decisions * developing self and others We’ll also be assessing your experience and specialist technical skills against the following skills defined in the Government Digital and Data Capability Framework for the Lead Technical Architect role: * Architect for the whole context * Community collaboration * Architecture communication * Strategy design ## Description The Digital Workplace team at DSIT is responsible for shaping how colleagues work, collaborate, and use technology securely and effectively. We are looking for a Digital Workplace Technical Architect to provide senior technical leadership and architectural assurance across our Digital Workplace services. This role will set direction for end user computing and collaboration platforms, ensuring solutions are secure by design, user-centred, resilient, and sustainable at scale. You will operate at organisational and cross-government level, influencing strategy, shaping standards, and assuring complex solutions across multiple teams and programmes. As a Lead Technical Architect, you’ll: * set the technical architecture direction for Digital Workplace services, aligned to departmental and cross-government strategy * lead and assure the design of complex solutions covering end user computing, collaboration platforms, identity and security, and integration with legacy systems * define and maintain architecture principles, standards and patterns, providing clear guidance to delivery teams and suppliers * act as a senior technical authority, offering challenge, assurance and risk management on architectural decisions * build strong relationships across DSIT, wider government and industry, contributing to cross-government communities and promoting reuse and common approaches * provide technical leadership, mentoring and coaching to architects and senior technologists, A reserve list will be held for a period of 12 months, from which further appointments can be made. The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy. Please note that this role requires SC clearance, which would normally need 5 years’ UK residency in the past 5 years. This is not an absolute requirement, but supplementary checks may be needed where individuals have not lived in the UK for that period. This may mean your security clearance (and therefore your appointment) will take longer or, in some cases, not be possible. For meaningful checks to be carried out, you will need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time, to enable appropriate checks to be carried out and produce a result which provides the required level of assurance. Whilst a lack of UK residency in itself is not necessarily a bar to a security clearance, and expectation of UK residency may range from 3 to 5 years. Failure to meet the residency requirements needed for the role may result in the withdrawal of provisional jobs offers. Sponsorship DSIT cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign. DSIT holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not qualify. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. Security Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check . See our vetting charter . People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks., * UK nationals * nationals of the Republic of Ireland * nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK * nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) * nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) * individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020 * Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service ## Related Videos - [How to TDD in legacy code](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/309-how-to-tdd-in-legacy-code) - [Fake or News: Translating Dog Barks, Notepad Gets an Upgrade and Michelin-Star Robots - Paul Tregoing](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1802-fake-or-news-translating-dog-barks-notepad-gets-an-upgrade-and-michelin-star-robots-paul-tregoing) - [We (don't) need a software architect!?!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/663-we-don-t-need-a-software-architect) - [Getting to Know Your Legacy (System) with AI-Driven Software Archeology](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1437-getting-to-know-your-legacy-system-with-ai-driven-software-archeology) - [Building Well-Architected applications](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/691-building-well-architected-applications) - [How Lufthansa Industry Solutions is preparing for the Quantum Age! ](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1443-how-lufthansa-industry-solutions-is-preparing-for-the-quantum-age) ## Related Articles - [What Are The Top Skills Required For Azure Developers?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/77-what-are-the-top-skills-required-for-azure-developers) - [Best Companies to work for in London: Top 25 Companies in 2023](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/187-best-companies-to-work-for-in-london-top-25-companies-in-2023) - [IT Salaries in UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/288-it-salaries-in-uk) - [Software Engineer Salary London](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/252-software-engineer-salary-london) - [What’s the Difference between a Junior, Mid, and Senior Developer?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/238-what-s-the-difference-between-a-junior-mid-and-senior-developer) - [The Most Popular IT Jobs on the Market](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/376-the-most-popular-it-jobs-on-the-market)