Lead Technical Architect in Bristol

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Based within the Cloud & Engineering Practice, the Lead Technical Architect role is accountable for driving the growth of our architecture capability while supporting client deliveries and providing technical assurance to our engineering teams. We’re looking for technical leaders who can work closely with client stakeholders and our delivery teams to help shape, design and deliver predominantly cloud-based architectures. They will also provide architecture oversight and help clients to develop and evolve their technical strategy.

People in this role primarily work consultatively and are expected to build relationships with clients across our industry verticals, ranging from Central Government to Health and Local Government. Identification of growth opportunities for existing accounts and new clients is also a key responsibility.

• Taking responsibility for understanding client requirements and communicating between technical teams and the business.
• Align your team’s work with department and government technology strategy, participating in strategic technical decisions and challenging previous decisions where needed.
• Be responsible for technical design and development of public services of various sizes, how they interact with their surroundings (including other projects, teams and organisations), and how they evolve over time.
• Be responsible for ensuring non-functional requirements are identified and delivered, particularly relating to security and operability in the cloud.
• Challenge entrenched practices and influence decision makers, and look for deeper underlying problems to solve, and larger opportunities for digital transformation.
• Facilitate workshops and other collaborative activities leveraging lean and agile techniques with both your team and the client to ensure the service architecture meets user needs and enables business goals.
• Provide technical leadership to our delivery teams and strategic architectural advice to clients.

• Shape and deliver opportunities on client accounts by providing expert engagement as a trusted technical leader.
• Provide pre-sales support on bids by calling on technical experience to confidently address stated client needs.
• Shaping and drafting responses and supporting proposal presentations to existing or new clients to help add value and credibility and maximise successful bid outcomes.
• Provide thought leadership through supporting marketing initiatives, writing blog posts, speaking at events, etc.
• Working with and in account teams to build strong client relationships and find additional growth opportunities.

• Leading and championing the practice across Made Tech through community of practice involvement and by coaching and mentoring more junior team members.
• Presenting learnings to the Software Engineering Community of Practice.
• Supporting and briefing our client partners to help them better understand our technical propositions with the goal of identifying additional opportunities.
• Line management of more junior colleagues to support their development, pursuit of career goals and management of their overall performance.
• Help build and maintain a diverse, inclusive culture across the development community, growing awareness, inclusivity, and balance.

• When not actively working with clients, being available to delivery teams to provide architecture support and guidance.
• Reviewing architecture quality at various checkpoints throughout a delivery’s lifecycle.

• Prioritise a positive employee experience.
• Align to commercial goals.
• Value close collaboration.
• Take a pragmatic approach.

We believe we can use tech to make public services better. We also believe this can happen best when our own team represents the society that actually uses the services we work on. We’re collectively continuing to grow a culture that is happy, healthy, safe and inspiring for people of all backgrounds and experiences, so we encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply for roles with us.

When you apply, we’ll put you in touch with a talent partner who can help with any needs or adjustments we may need to make to help with your application. This includes alternative formats for documents, the time allotted for interviews and any other needs. We also welcome any feedback on how we can improve the experience for future candidates.

We’re committed to building a happy, inclusive and diverse workforce. You can get a sense of what it’s like working here from our blog, where we talk about mental health, communities of practice and neurodiversity (as well as our client work and best practice).

Like many organisations, we use Slack to chat to each other. The Slack groups that have formed give an idea of the diversity within Made Tech. If you’d like to speak to someone from one of these groups about their experience as an employee, let your recruitment agent or Made Tech Talent Specialist know.

• antiracist-activists
• disability
• lgbtqiaplus-allies-and-activists
• neurodiversity
• parents-carers
• women-in-tech

We are always listening to our growing teams and evolving the benefits available to our people. As we scale, as do our benefits and we are scaling quickly. We’ve recently introduced a flexible benefit platform which includes a Smart Tech scheme, Cycle to work scheme, and an individual benefits allowance which you can invest in a Health care cash plan or Pension plan. We’re also big on connection and have an optional social and wellbeing calendar of events for all employees to join should they choose to.

• 30 days Holiday - we offer 30 days of paid annual leave
• Flexible Working Hours - we are flexible with what hours you work
• Flexible Parental Leave - we offer flexible parental leave options
• Remote Working - we offer part-time remote working for all our staff