Senior Technical Architect

Job description

Senior Technical Architect required to work with a Government department. This is an initial 12 month contract, paying £745 a day, inside IR35, hybrid working.

Job Description:

The role will initially work closely with a Principal Technical Architect, and will help form a team around the delivery of APIs.

Key Responsibilities

·  Work with Service Owners and others to help bring on board a delivery team

·  Collaborate and find agreement with senior stakeholders, providing both technical and non-technical direction and challenge

·  Guide technical teams, influence technical choices and seek out opportunities for digital transformation

·  Assure other services and system quality, ensuring the technical work fits into the broader strategy for the agency

·  Align your team's work with departmental and wider government technology strategy

·  Support hiring, taking part in recruitment for both Technical Architects and other professions such as Software Developers

Tech Stack

·  Programming languages such as TypeScript/Node, Kotlin/Java.

·  AWS and/or Azure using infrastructure as code such as Terraform, CloudFormation

·  Container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.

·  Public GitHub repositories for our work

·  Modern development practices such as domain-driven design, test-driven development, continuous integration and continuous delivery

·  Mac laptops

·  plus other tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, AppInsights, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, and more

Skills & experience required

·  Key: API development/management

·  Key: working across multiple organisations

·  Key: great communication skills

·  Experience in a technical/solution architecture role and can act as a recognised technical expert to guide, critique and support teams in the delivery of outcomes

·  Practical working knowledge of modern cloud-first architectures, and how to build applications to take advantage of the opportunities they offer

·  Experience of devising software architecture for multitier web solutions which typically include frontend and/or backend microservices, event-driven processing, API provision/consumption, databases, and pub/sub patterns.

·  Able to identify and mitigate security risks when designing and operating in a public cloud environment

·  Experience of architecting digital services that align to a wider technical strategy that meets business needs

·  Experience of making and guiding effective technical choices by understanding the trends and practices within the broader organisation

·  Capable of looking for deeper underlying problems and opportunities

·  Translates technical concepts between multidisciplinary teams and other stakeholders so they are understood by all. Expert at mediating and mending relationships and communicating with senior stakeholders.

·  Can act decisively and make bold, unbiased decisions. Able to clearly communicate the purpose and reasons for recommendations and decisions.

·  Can consult with others where necessary to ensure decisions meet the diverse needs of the end users. Clearly recommend the best option articulating risks and impacts

·  Ensure plans and activities in your area of work reflect wider strategic priorities and communicate effectively with senior leaders to influence future strategies

·  Technical leadership of teams. You have demonstrable experience of leading technical teams in the successful delivery of complex outcomes. You can work across disciplines and are able to engage with a wide range of technical professions

You will need an active SC clearance.

Please apply should you fit the above criteria