Technical Architect - up to 90,000 + Benefits + Bonus

Overview

In this role you will lead the design and assurance of technical architectures for large-scale digital services within public sector transformation programmes. You will shape secure, scalable cloud-native solutions and provide architectural leadership across multidisciplinary teams. You’ll influence technical strategy, promote best practices, and ensure designs align with governance and security standards. This is a hands-on yet strategic role that offers impact by guiding architecture decisions and mentoring engineers, with a clear focus on long-term objectives.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and assurance of technical architectures across large scale digital services
• Design scalable, secure, and resilient cloud-based solutions using AWS
• Provide technical leadership on architectural decisions and trade-offs
• Define and promote architecture standards and reusable patterns
• Collaborate with developers, DevOps, and delivery teams across the project lifecycle
• Mentor architects and senior engineers to support technical growth
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, and opportunities across workstreams
• Align solution designs with organisational strategy, governance, and security standards
• Communicate architectural decisions to senior technical and business stakeholders
• Support architecture governance, technical assurance, and design reviews

Key requirements

• Strong experience as a Technical Architect or similar role
• Hands-on experience designing and delivering complex enterprise solutions
• Strong technical background with modern application and integration architectures
• Commercial experience with AWS cloud services
• Strong understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience leading architectural decision making across multidisciplinary teams
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Experience working within Agile delivery environments
• Previous experience delivering projects within the UK Public Sector

• stakeholder management
• communication skills
• leadership
• AWS cloud services
• modern application and integration architectures
• DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines

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