Senior Technical Architect (Software) in Plymouth

• Location
• Plymouth, South West England, PL6 5WS
• Job summary

At HM Land Registry (HMLR), we are transforming the way land registration services are delivered through modern technology, innovative architecture and digital services.

We are looking for a Senior Technical Architect to join our Architecture Practice and play a key role in shaping strategic technology solutions that support our ambitious transformation agenda.

As a Senior Technical Architect, you will work across multiple products, services and delivery teams, taking a holistic view of our technology landscape.

You will help design and deliver scalable, secure and sustainable technical solutions that meet both current and future business needs.

Architecture is a team sport at HMLR.

We believe the best solutions are created when people with different perspectives, experiences and technical specialisms work together towards a shared goal.

As a Senior Technical Architect, you will work closely with software engineers, architects, delivery teams and stakeholders across the organisation to design end‑to‑end solutions that align with business objectives and technical strategy.

You will be comfortable working in complex environments, providing clarity where there is ambiguity and ensuring that technology decisions support both immediate delivery needs and long‑term organisational goals.

You will take ownership of architectural solutions throughout their lifecycle, considering not only how a solution operates today, but how it scales, evolves and integrates within the wider technology ecosystem.

Main Duties

As a Senior Technical Architect, you will

• Develop and communicate architectural solutions that support HMLR’s strategic objectives and technology roadmap.
• Take a holistic view of the technology landscape, assessing the impact of change across current and future systems.
• Design solutions that are scalable, maintainable, secure and aligned to business and technical strategies.
• Work collaboratively with software engineers, architects and agile delivery teams to develop best‑fit technical solutions that deliver value while optimising cost.
• Lead on the architecture of complex initiatives from discovery and design through to delivery and ongoing lifecycle management.
• Identify technical challenges, risks and dependencies, providing clear recommendations and solutions.
• Translate business requirements and strategic objectives into effective technical designs.
• Ensure solutions function effectively within their immediate context and across the wider organisational ecosystem.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to delivery teams and stakeholders.
• Build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, suppliers and other government departments.
• Negotiate and influence technical decisions, ensuring stakeholders understand options, trade‑offs and outcomes.
• Promote compliance with security standards, legal obligations, governance requirements and industry best practice.
• Contribute to architectural communities of practice and support continuous improvement across the organisation.
• Keep up to date with emerging technologies, industry developments and architectural approaches, identifying opportunities to enhance HMLR services.

What We Offer

At HMLR, we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

We value different perspectives and recognise that diverse teams deliver better outcomes.

We support flexible working and encourage applications from people from all backgrounds, communities and experiences.

By joining us, you will have the opportunity to help shape the future of public services, work on meaningful and challenging programmes, and develop your career within a supportive and collaborative environment.

Person specification

To be successful in this role, you will be required to demonstrate the following criteria throughout the recruitment process.

Essential Technical Skills and Qualifications

• Architect for the whole context
• align your work with the work being done by other architects and technical professionals
• lead the communication of complicated, complex or risky architecture topics with technical and non‑technical stakeholders
• Community collaboration
• work collaboratively in a group, actively networking with others
• Making architectural decisions
• work with others to make architectural design decisions characterised by managed levels of risk and complexity
• Strategy design
• support the development of a strategy or vision that aligns with organisational objectives
• Technical design throughout the life cycle
• create technical designs characterised by medium risk, impact, and complexity

Note: These skills are based upon the expected skills for a Senior Technical Architect role as defined on Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework

Desirable Technical Skills and Qualifications

• Demonstrable use of using industry standard design patterns as part of your solutions (MVC, Microservices, Pub Sub etc.)
• Modelling techniques UML, SYSML etc.
• Dev Ops Training.
• Wide range of experience of technology domains including
• Engineering and software architecture design
• Technology architecture, infrastructure, cloud platforms
• IT Security architecture: best practice, patterns and standards

Our existing products and technologies include

Some of this list would be expected to be in your kitbag of experience.

• Using and understanding of a broad range of technologies, tools and processes.
• Proactively keeping abreast of upcoming technologies and changes in the industry.
• Leading and influencing diverse groups to get to agreement on a technical solution.
• Identifying and managing change and its impact on people, process, technology and information.
• Understanding technology and the needs of stakeholders and then using this knowledge to deliver good architectural designs.
• Showing where you have solved complex problems by managing levels of risk and complexity.
• Structured, logical decomposition of problems using appropriate modelling techniques and languages.
• Taking accountability for end‑to‑end solutions from initiation to initial delivery and its ongoing lifecycle in line with a strategy.
• Delivering compliance in line with security requirements, legal or legislative responsibilities.
• Supporting or developing technical strategies, principles, patterns and roadmaps.
• Previous Public Sector experience and an understanding of Central Government IT related initiatives, policies and standards
• Experience of the competitive IT procurement life cycle; specifically, solution specification and evaluation criteria
• Experience of building, maintaining and managing relationships with vendors
• 3rd party software integration.
• Planning for decommissioning, maintainability and scalability.
• Where you have collaborated with multiple teams to deliver the required outcome.

Please note that desirable criteria will only be assessed in the event of high application numbers and/or as a tiebreaker.

For further information please see the attached job description.

• Behaviours
• We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Making Effective Decisions
• Working Together

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact

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