Senior Digital Technical Architect

Are you a Senior Technical Architect looking for your next challenge?

The Project:

Our client is leading the way in digital transformation and is looking for a talented Senior Technical Architect who has experience with working with engineering teams and has a proven track record of being responsible for supporting the design, development, delivery and maintenance of IT products and services. Therefore, brings a breadth of understanding across a range of technical domains and depth of experience in one domain or specialism. The role will involve being responsible for a project or strand of a programme.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, deliver and support technical design of a product or part of a shared platform to meet user needs and business objectives.
• Lead on ensuring high quality of technical design, and adherence to enterprise architecture principles and roadmaps
• Build relationships and work collaboratively with Digital professions in agile delivery teams to create VFM solution designs that meet user needs
• Support development of the client's Architecture practice by sharing best practice and reference architectures to ensure consistency and coherence of the architecture design.
• Engage with Enterprise Architects, Domain Architects, Lead Solution Architects and engineering teams to implement the solutions according to agreed and approved architecture designs.
• Deliver product solutions and be accountable for product architecture in alignment with engineering.
• Identify, capture, share and iterate architecture patterns to ensure consistent and coherent architecture design, contributing to the Enterprise Architecture.
• Implement architecture patterns creating reference architectures as real-world working examples of successful architecture design.
• Make technology choices for products in conjunction with the enterprise architecture blueprint, contributing to the update of technology policies where appropriate.
• Contribute to building an inclusive digital culture within the department.

Skills Required:

• Expert knowledge of Software, Application (SaaS) and integration architecture (PaaS), Data, Cloud (AWS & Azure) and Infrastructure (IaaS) architecture, frameworks, technologies, tools and best practice
• Technical knowledge of the following:
• ArchiMate and UML architecture/design and modelling techniques, tools and standards
• Microservice and API-led architecture and integration design tools, techniques and best practice
• WebServices, SOA, BPEL and ESB architecture and integration design tools, techniques and best practice
• Agile/DevOps delivery methodologies and best practice
• Knowledge of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) delivery methodologies, tools and best practice
• Knowledge of Cybersecurity technologies, tools and best practice
• Ability to listen to the needs of the technical and business stakeholders and interpret between them.
• Capable of proactive and reactive communication.
• Possess a deep understanding of the technical concepts required in their role and understands how these fit into the wider technical landscape.
• Understands the limitations of digital technology.
• Designs systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact and business or technical complexity.
• Reviews the systems designs of others to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology.
• Designs technical solutions by dealing with problems that span different business areas.
• Works across multiple services or a single large or complicated service.
• Proven background shaping and supporting technology initiatives, projects, programmes and portfolios

Please note this role requires the successful candidate to work in a hybrid role (60%) from either Leeds or Newcastle.

This role has been determined as being Inside IR35.