Salary: Competitive base salary plus benefits (DOE)
Role Type: Full Time, Permanent
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Lead Technical Architect to join a major digital transformation programme focused on modernising and improving critical business services.
This role sits at an early stage of the programme lifecycle, where understanding business needs and shaping future solutions is just as important as technical delivery. You will provide architectural leadership across the programme, working closely with business stakeholders, delivery teams, and technical specialists to analyse current processes, assess existing integrations, and define a strategic technology roadmap.
The Role
As a Lead Technical Architect, you will provide technical leadership across multiple workstreams, ensuring architectural decisions align with business objectives and enterprise technology strategy.
You will work alongside architects, engineers, business analysts, product teams, delivery managers, and senior stakeholders to understand current capabilities and design future-state solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading technical discovery, architecture, and solution design activities
- Providing technical leadership across architecture and engineering teams
- Analysing existing systems, integrations, and business processes
- Developing architecture roadmaps and target-state designs
- Designing scalable cloud and integration architectures
- Defining architecture standards, principles, and best practices
- Supporting governance, design reviews, and technical assurance processes
- Collaborating with senior stakeholders to shape requirements and strategic outcomes
- Challenging assumptions and driving value-led solution design
- Mentoring architects and technical teams
- Ensuring solutions are secure, resilient, maintainable, and aligned with long-term business goals
Technology Environment
- Microservices
- Cloud-Native Platforms
Highly Desirable Experience
- Public sector or highly regulated environments
- Large-scale integration and digital transformation programmes
- Enterprise architecture governance and review boards
- Business process transformation initiatives
- Security, compliance, and accessibility best practices
- Leading multidisciplinary teams and mentoring architects
What We Offer
- 25 days annual leave plus public holidays, so you can actually switch off
- Private medical insurance with Bupa
- Remote-first working with a base at Liverpool Street when you want it
- A personal training budget to invest in your growth, however that looks for you
- Perkbox, giving you access to hundreds of perks and discounts across eating out, shopping, wellness, entertainment and more
- EV scheme after one year of service, supporting you in making the switch to electric
- Regular team socials with a group of people who genuinely enjoy working together
- Employer pension contributions
- A rewarding referral scheme which could earn you up to £3000 for any successful hires
- And most importantly, the chance to be part of something from the ground up. Amber Labs is growing fast and the people joining now will shape what this business becomes.
