Lead Technical Architect – Integration and Solution Delivery
- Hybrid – 1-2 days per week onsite in Croydon, Bromley, Winchester, Farnborough
- £100,000 – £110,000 per annum + Benefits and bonuse
- Must have or be eligible for UK Security Clearance and NPPV3
About the Role:
Digital Skills are looking for an experienced and highly skilled Lead Technical Architect with a focus on system delivery assurance and integration architecture. This role is to join a client on a large program of work and will play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and overseeing the delivery of solutions for large-scale mission-critical systems.
You will need to have 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.
Qualifications/Experience required:
- Experience in 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 clients and supplier teams and provide technical mentorship.
- Expert-level experience in application and integration architectures.
- Extensive experience in systems integration and working with large IT Services organisations.
- Proven experience in client-facing technical leadership roles.
- Experience in secure solutions delivery.
- Experience working with different architecture methods, tools and frameworks.
- Experience defining technology roadmaps, technology transformation strategies and transitional architectures.
- Proven experience in project management, particularly in planning, and risk and dependency management.
- An excellent and self-reliant communicator – creating, documenting and communicating architectural, strategic and solution delivery aspects.
- Ability to work in a Multi-supplier environment.
Preferred Skills & experience:
- Experience with large-scale distributed processing systems.
- Experience in architecting and delivering biometric processing systems (fingerprint, face, DNA).
- Experience in other architectural disciplines ie, business, data, performance, infrastructure, and security.
- Experience in engineering cloud-based solutions.
- Delivery of government secure solutions.
- Experience of solution service integration.
- Experience with 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.
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/commercial constraints.
- Understand business customer demands and requirements, ensuring alignment with 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.
- Contribute to technical design authorities by 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 the delivery of complex solutions.
- Ensure that architectures are compliant with industry regulations (eg, GDPR, HIPAA) and company security policies, and ensure appropriate security controls are implemented across all solutions.
- 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.
If this sounds like the right role for you and you have the skills and experience required, please do apply.
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