Senior Technical Architect
If the following job requirements and experience match your skills, please ensure you apply promptly.
Duration of role: 12 months
Location: National - but they will require regular visits to offices in London and/or Sheffield
Day rate: £745 per day - INSIDE IR35
Any extra Clearance required (not including BPSS)
SC will be required, ideally existing if possible
Description:
This role is part of a cross-government initiative to create a new system.
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 another government department team to provide a critical friend on technical architecture designs and decisions.
* Manage the requirements from the projects that relate to their data
* Using the requirements here, continue the design of their Integration API so that it both meets their needs but also aligns with the ongoing Digital technical strategy
* Work with Service Owners and others to help bring on board a delivery team related to this work
* Deputise for Principal Technical Architect on calls related to the project
* 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
* 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
* 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.