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# Technical Lead

- **Company:** 4C Strategies
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £169,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Applications Architecture, Business Software, Business Systems, Cyber Security, Identity and Access Management, Systems Integration, Enterprise Software Applications, Cloud Platform System
- **Published:** October 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=86f73e42a8d69016

## About the Role

You will bring a strong combination of enterprise architecture expertise, technical leadership experience, and excellent stakeholder management skills., * Extensive experience as a Solutions Architect, Enterprise Architect, Technical Architect, or Technical Lead within a large and complex environment.

 * Proven track record designing and delivering enterprise-scale business systems and application architectures.
 * Experience across cloud and on-premise technology environments.
 * Strong understanding of architecture frameworks, standards, and governance.
 * Experience developing technology roadmaps and strategic architecture plans.
 * Strong knowledge of infrastructure, applications, integrations, identity management, and security architecture.
 * Experience leading technical teams and managing technical professionals.
 * Ability to engage confidently with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
 * Strong analytical, problem-solving, and business analysis capabilities.
 * Experience contributing to digital transformation and organisational change initiatives.

Desirable Experience

 * Experience within Higher Education, Public Sector, or similarly complex organisations.
 * Knowledge of enterprise systems such as ERP, HR, Finance, CRM, Service Management, Identity Management, Student Systems, or comparable business-critical platforms.
 * Experience working with Technical Design Authorities or architectural governance boards.
 * Understanding of sustainability and green IT principles.

## Description

Working within a large-scale organisation undergoing continued digital transformation, you will be responsible for defining architecture strategy, ensuring alignment between technology and business objectives, and providing technical leadership across a diverse portfolio of business-critical systems, applications, infrastructure services, and cloud-based platforms.

Alongside your architectural responsibilities, you will provide leadership and line management for a team of four technical specialists, supporting their development while driving the delivery of strategic technology initiatives., * Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise-scale business systems and technology solutions.

 * Act as the principal technical authority for business applications, platforms, integrations, and supporting infrastructure across both on-premise and cloud environments.
 * Develop architecture roadmaps that align technology investments with organisational objectives and digital transformation programmes.
 * Ensure solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, and adaptable to evolving business requirements.
 * Define and maintain architecture standards, governance frameworks, policies, and technical documentation.
 * Review project and change initiatives to ensure alignment with strategic architecture principles and long-term technology goals.
 * Provide technical leadership across enterprise applications, identity services, security architecture, integrations, and infrastructure platforms.
 * Identify opportunities to optimise systems, improve service delivery, reduce costs, and maximise value from technology investments.
 * Support the adoption of cloud, managed, and hosted services where appropriate.
 * Contribute to business cases, technology strategies, and operational planning activities.
 * Collaborate with stakeholders across the organisation to understand business requirements and translate them into effective technical solutions.
 * Ensure all solutions incorporate appropriate levels of security, performance, resilience, accessibility, and compliance.
 * Lead service transition, quality assurance, and continuous improvement initiatives.
 * Work closely with senior technology leaders, project teams, suppliers, and governance boards.
 * Provide day-to-day leadership, mentoring, and line management for a team of four technical professionals.