Technical Architect

• We define and champion the technical strategy for services, ensuring alignment with user needs, business goals and DDaT standards.
• We lead technical specialists across multiple projects, solving complex architectural challenges and owning the technical design of services.
• We design and assure secure, open-source and user-centred systems, including integration, interoperability, cloud quality, security and performance.
• We provide technical governance, present designs to boards such as the Technical Design Authority, and collaborate with architects across DBT to ensure alignment.
• We horizon scan for emerging technologies, contribute to the architecture community, mentor peers and support capability development within the profession.
• We shape the technical direction of services from early discovery through to live operations.
• We contribute to portfolio-level strategy and governance to help shape the future of digital delivery at DBT.

Technologies:

• AI
• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Django
• ERP
• Support
• Python
• React
• Security
• dbt
• NodeJS
• Architect

• We need proven experience designing and delivering secure cloud solutions using AWS and/or Azure.
• We need strong experience producing high-level designs and taking them through governance, including Architecture Review Boards or Technical Design Authority.
• We need the ability to work closely with development teams to translate high-level designs into practical low-level designs aligned to standards.
• We need proven ability to lead technical teams and deliver user-focused services within agile environments.
• We need strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• We need a core architecture skillset, with additional experience in one or more specialist areas such as AI-focused architecture, cloud-focused architecture, application-focused architecture, or ERP-focused architecture.
• We need SC clearance eligibility, which requires being present in the UK for 3 out of the past 5 years.
• We cannot sponsor Skilled Worker visas.

We are the Department for Business and Trade, and we are recruiting 4 experienced Technical Architects to support major digital and technology programmes. We offer a salary of £67,867 to £85,413, excellent Civil Service benefits and a 29% employer pension contribution. We work flexibly in a hybrid model from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, with around 40% office attendance each month and flexible or condensed hours available. Our technology stack includes Python/Django, Node.js/React and cloud services such as AWS and Azure, and we optimise our architecture for change, continuous improvement and innovation. You will join a collaborative architecture community working on modern, varied and meaningful programmes that support trade, business growth and the wider UK economy, with the opportunity to influence strategy, improve services and help deliver secure, resilient solutions at scale.