Senior Technical Architect

Role: Senior Technical Architect
Duration: 12 months
Location: Hybrid Leeds or Newcastle
Rate: Competitive Rate (Inside IR35)

Overview

The Project: Our client is leading the way in digital transformation and is looking for a talented Senior Technical Architect who has experience 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. 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 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 understand how these fit into the wider technical landscape. Understand the limitations of digital technology.
• Design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact and business or technical complexity. Review the systems designs of others to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology.
• technical solutions by dealing with problems that span different business areas. Work across multiple services or a single large or complicated service.
• Proven background shaping and supporting technology initiatives, projects, programmes and portfolios.