DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Lead Technical Architect – Integration and Solution Delivery
Location: Remote with a minimum of 1-2 days per week on site Winchester, Farnborough, Croydon, Bromley. This is non-negotiable as this is not a 100% remote role.
Must have or be eligible for UK Security Clearance, and Non-Police Personnel Vetting Level 3 (NPPV3).

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE

• 8+ years of experience of senior technical leadership, including defining architectures and being responsible for the technical success of large-scale mission-critical systems.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with both client and supplier teams and provide technical mentorship.
• Expert level experience of application and integration architectures.
• Extensive experience of systems integration and working with large IT Services organisations.
• Proven experience in client-facing technical leadership roles.
• Experience of secure solutions delivery.
• Experience of working with architecture methods, tools and frameworks
• Experience defining technology roadmaps, technology transformation strategies and transitional architectures.
• Proven experience of project management aspects, particularly for planning, and risk and dependency management.
• An excellent and self-reliant communicator – being able to create, document and communicate architectural, strategic and solution delivery aspects.
• Ability to work in Multi-supplier environment
• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field or professional equivalent may be considered.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience of large-scale distributed processing systems
• Experience of architecting and delivering biometric processing systems (fingerprint, face, DNA).
• Experience of other architectural disciplines i.e. business, data, performance, infrastructure, security.
• Experience of engineering cloud-based solutions.
• Delivery of government secure solution delivery.
• Experience of solution service integration.
• Experience of test approaches for large-scale system deliveries.
• Demonstrable architecture skills and experience to an industry benchmarked level.
• Expertise in compliance standards such as GDPR, HIPAA, SOC2, and ISO 27001.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

We are looking for a dynamic, experienced and highly skilled Lead Technical Architect with expertise in systems delivery assurance and integration architectures to join our team. You will play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and overseeing the delivery of solutions for large-scale mission-critical systems to meet business user/customer expectations. You will have at least 8 years of demonstrable expert-level architecture and technical leadership experience, including deep knowledge of application and integration architectures. You will define and communicate architectures, provide client-facing strategic and technical direction and perform strong and detailed assurance of supplier solution deliveries.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to client technical teams, guiding them through complex technical challenges and architectural decisions.
• Develop solutions that conform to organisational standards, principles, strategies, and technical and commercial constraints.
• Understand business customer demands and requirements, and ensure alignment to system supplier deliveries.
• Evaluate and provide technical assurance for supplier solutions.
• Apply assurance and governance to supplier deliveries to meet desired business outcomes.
• Develop and maintain technology roadmaps for client systems.
• Oversee the capture of requirements and provide technical input to procurements and tenders.
• Work closely with project management and commercial teams to ensure delivery alignment and commercial compliance.
• Contribute to technical design authorities communicating ideas and seeking consensus.
• Perform a Systems Integration role, ensuring supplier solutions and deliveries align.
• Ensure solution compliance with security and governance standards and frameworks.
• Work with client and supplier quality and test organisations to ensure adequate quality in delivery of complex solutions.
• Ensure that architectures are compliant with industry regulations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA) and company security policies, and ensure appropriate security controls are implemented across all solutions.
• Work closely with client and supplier teams, and stakeholders to ensure that architectural strategies align with both technical and business objectives.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks in supplier solutions and deliveries to meet stakeholder objectives.
• Develop and maintain architectural standards, design patterns, and documentation, ensuring a shared understanding of technical solutions. Capturing/documenting architectural decisions.