At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the design of secure, scalable AI solutions and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams.
- Company: Department for Business and Trade, promoting innovation in a flexible work environment.
- Benefits: Generous salary, civil service pension, learning opportunities, and family-friendly policies.
- Other info: Flexible hybrid working with excellent career growth and a culture of diversity.
- Why this job: Shape the future of AI in a dynamic government setting while making a real impact.
- Qualifications: Strong architecture experience and skills in AI technologies and stakeholder engagement.
The predicted salary is between 71590 - 85413 £ per year.
Job Summary
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is seeking an AI-focused Technical Architect to lead the design and delivery of secure, scalable, and reusable AI‑enabled solutions across the department.
The role involves translating emerging AI capabilities into practical architectures and working closely with AI engineers, data specialists, cyber security, governance teams and wider multidisciplinary teams to assess feasibility, risk and value within a government environment.
This position is based in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, supporting a flexible hybrid working arrangement with up to 40% in‑office work.
The salary range is £71,590 to £85,413 for London applicants and £67,867 to £81,793 for national applicants, dependent on location and technical skills as assessed at interview.
Responsibilities
- Define and champion the technical strategy for services, ensuring alignment with user needs, business goals and DDa T standards.
- Lead technical specialists across multiple projects, solving complex architectural challenges and owning the technical design of services.
- Design and assure secure, open‑source and user‑centred systems, including integration, interoperability, cloud quality, security and performance.
- Provide technical governance and present designs to boards such as the Technical Design Authority, collaborating with architects across DBT to ensure alignment.
- Conduct horizon scans for emerging technologies, contribute to the architecture community, mentor peers and support capability development within the profession.
Qualifications & Essential Skills
- Strong technical architecture experience, including designing secure, scalable and user‑centred digital services.
- Proven experience producing high‑level designs, translating them into practical delivery plans and taking them through governance or assurance boards.
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to work across agile, multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience designing or shaping AI‑enabled solutions, prototypes or proof‑of‑concepts.
- Working with LLMs, Open AI, Microsoft AI tools or similar AI technologies.
- Understanding of AI governance, cyber security, data protection, data sovereignty and production‑readiness considerations.
- SC clearance (must have been present in the UK for 3 of the past 5 years).
Benefits
- Civil Service pension with employer contribution of 28.97%.
- Learning and development tailored to your role, with expensed accreditations and study time.
- Flexible hybrid working environment, including condensed hours options.
- Culture encouraging diversity and inclusion.
- Annual leave starting at 25 days, rising with each year of service.
- Three paid volunteering days a year.
- Employee benefits programme including cycle‑to‑work scheme and season ticket loans.
- Bonus and discount schemes: in‑year rewards and vouchers, as well as lifestyle discounts.
- Family‑friendly policies including maternity, adoption or shared parental leave.
- Additional Information
Hybrid working includes 40% in‑office work per month (typically 2 days/week). Hours are flexible and condensed hours are an option.
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