Technical Solution Architect

Lead Technical Architect, Inside IR35, (Security Cleared to SC Level)

Contract Term: 6 Months

Contracting Authority: Cabinet Office

Location: Remote – Occasional London/Birmingham/Manchester/ Glasgow/York/Bristol

As a lead technical architect you will work with multiple projects or teams on problems that require broad architectural thinking.

At this role level, you will:

• be responsible for leading the technical design of systems and services, justifying and communicating design decisions

• assure other services and system quality, ensuring the technical work fits into the broader strategy for government

• explore the benefits of cross-government alignment

• provide mentoring within teams

• provide leadership to other architects

Skills needed for this role:

• Communicating between the technical and non-technical (technical architect). You can mediate between people and mend relationships, communicating with stakeholders at all levels.

• Governance and assurance. You can evolve and define governance. You can take responsibility for working with and supporting other staff in wider governance. You can assure services across sets of services. You can use tools such as standards, guardrails and principles to effectively govern delivery.

• Making and guiding decisions. You can make decisions characterised by medium levels of risk and complexity and recommend decisions as risk and complexity increase. You can build consensus between services or independent stakeholders.

• Strategy. You can define and challenge strategies, patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements. You can provide proactive advice and guidance for their definition across the organisation.

• Turning business problems into technical design. You can design systems characterised by high levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity.

• Understanding the whole context. You can understand trends and practices within the broader organisation and how these will impact your work. You can look for deeper underlying problems and opportunities. You can anticipate problems before they occur. You can identify the impact of changes to policy.

AWS, Oracle exposure preferred.

SC clearance