SC cleared Technical and Lead Architects

Location:

Primarily remote, with occasional travel to London

About Amber Labs

The digital transformation partner for highly regulated industries.

Our teams deliver digital transformation for organisations operating in complex, highly regulated environments. From securing national borders to supporting critical public services, we deliver secure AI, data, cloud and software solutions across high-impact programmes.

What You'll Be Doing

We're looking for experienced Senior Technical Architects and Lead Technical Architects to join a major government transformation programme focused on the assessment, remediation and modernisation of a complex Oracle estate.

This is a highly technical architecture engagement centred around defining future-state architecture and migration strategies for business-critical platforms. You'll be responsible for assessing complex, highly customised legacy environments, identifying viable upgrade and transformation options, and helping shape a long-term technology roadmap.

The programme involves evaluating migration pathways across Oracle technologies and cloud services, including Oracle Fusion and Oracle Integration Cloud, while working within an established architecture and delivery function.

You'll play a key role in bridging application, integration, database, infrastructure and cloud architecture domains, providing architectural leadership throughout the programme lifecycle.

You'll be responsible for:

• Reviewing and assessing complex Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), Oracle SOA and AWS environments
• Establishing clear current-state architecture baselines across multiple technology domains
• Validating existing technical documentation and producing new architecture artefacts where required
• Producing High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs)
• Defining future-state architectures and target platform strategies
• Assessing upgrade, remediation and migration approaches for legacy enterprise systems
• Developing architecture recommendations and supporting stakeholder workshops
• Creating transformation roadmaps and supporting technical planning activities
• Working closely with infrastructure, security, DBA, delivery and functional teams
• Identifying architecture risks, dependencies and technical constraints
• Supporting governance activities, design reviews and architecture assurance processes
• Contributing to enterprise-scale migration and transformation programmes

Lead Technical Architects will additionally:

• Provide technical leadership across architecture workstreams
• Own architecture deliverables and key technical decisions
• Lead and mentor architects and technical specialists
• Present architectural solutions at Design Authority and governance forums
• Manage stakeholder expectations across business and technical communities
• Provide oversight and quality assurance across architecture outputs

What We're Looking For

You will need:

• Proven experience as a Technical Architect, Solution Architect or Enterprise Architect within complex enterprise environments
• Strong hands-on Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) architecture and implementation experience
• Experience working with Oracle SOA Suite environments
• Experience with Oracle Fusion and/or Oracle Integration Cloud
• Strong AWS architecture and platform design experience
• Experience defining current-state and future-state architecture models
• Strong understanding of application, integration, database, infrastructure and cloud architecture layers
• Experience delivering architecture outputs within large-scale migration and transformation programmes
• Demonstrable experience producing High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs)
• Experience assessing legacy estates and developing practical transformation strategies
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Experience operating within architecture governance and assurance frameworks
• Active SC Clearance
• Oracle Fusion transformation programmes
• Oracle Integration Cloud implementation or migration projects
• AWS-hosted enterprise platform environments
• Public sector or highly regulated industry experience
• TOGAF, AWS, Oracle Cloud or equivalent architecture certifications
• Experience supporting roadmap development and transformation planning

Please note: This is not a governance-only architecture role. We're looking for architects who can assess complex technical estates, define practical transformation approaches and provide hands-on architectural leadership throughout major modernisation programmes.

What's In It For You

We believe benefits should be practical: things that genuinely support your day-to-day, give you flexibility and help you keep developing.

Here are a few of our perks:

• 25 days' annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Private medical insurance with Bupa
• Remote-first working, with access to our Liverpool Street office
• Personal training budget to support your professional development
• Perkbox membership, with discounts across retail, travel, dining and wellness
• Electric Vehicle Scheme after one year of service
• Regular team socials
• Referral scheme offering up to £3,000 for successful hires
• Your choice of PC or Mac

How We Work

We've worked hard to build a team of people who are experts at what they do. Because of that, we'll trust you to get on with your job and give you the space to do it well. But you'll always have plenty of support around you whenever you need it, whether that's to sense-check an approach, tackle a tricky client challenge or simply bounce ideas around.

We keep our structure flat and our processes straightforward. If you have a good idea, you'll be encouraged to run with it, and if something could be done better, we'll encourage you to say so. Ultimately, we work with people who take pride in their work, support their team and want to leave things better than they found them.

A Human Approach to Hiring

We use AI responsibly, in our client projects and internally. When it comes to hiring, there are always real people behind the process. Decisions throughout the recruitment process, from CV review and progressing to interview through to making an offer, are made by our Talent team.

Diversity & Inclusion

Amber Labs is an equal opportunities employer, and we're committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone has the opportunity to do their best work, regardless of background, identity or experience.

If there's anything we can do to make the recruitment process more accessible or comfortable for you, just let our Talent team know and we'll be happy to help.