We’re seeking an experienced Technical Architect to play a key role in shaping and assuring enterprise-wide technology solutions for a major infrastructure programme.
This is an opportunity to influence complex technical architecture across a large-scale, highly regulated environment, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, resilient and aligned with long-term business objectives.
Reporting to the Technical Assurance Manager, you’ll provide technical leadership across projects, working closely with internal stakeholders, architecture teams and Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers. You’ll help ensure that technical designs meet enterprise architecture standards, satisfy regulatory obligations and deliver sustainable, high-quality outcomes throughout the project lifecycle.
The role offers the opportunity to contribute to a nationally significant energy infrastructure programme, with technology playing a critical role in supporting its successful delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Technical Architecture: Lead the design and assurance of technical solutions across cloud platforms, infrastructure, networks, integration services and application environments.
- Architectural Governance: Ensure solutions comply with enterprise architecture principles, technical standards, security frameworks and relevant regulatory requirements.
- Design Assurance: Work with the Technical Assurance Manager to oversee architecture deliverables throughout the project lifecycle, from initial design through to implementation and operational handover.
- Supplier Management: Provide technical direction and subject matter expertise to external suppliers, ensuring their deliverables meet agreed contractual, technical and quality standards.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with business stakeholders, project delivery teams, infrastructure specialists, developers and fellow architects to translate business requirements into effective technical solutions.
- Cyber Security: Embed security by design into technical architectures, ensuring solutions align with enterprise security policies and regulatory expectations.
- Integration & Interoperability: Support integration planning across a complex, multi-supplier environment, ensuring technology components work together effectively.
- Architectural Governance Forums: Contribute to the Architecture Review Board and other governance processes, providing technical recommendations and challenging designs where necessary.
- Technology Innovation: Assess emerging technologies and digital transformation opportunities, recommending approaches that improve efficiency, resilience and long-term value.
- Risk Management: Identify and assess technical risks, resolve design challenges where possible and elevate significant issues to the Technical Assurance Manager.
- Extensive experience in a Technical Architect or equivalent architecture role within a large-scale, complex or regulated environment.
- Strong technical knowledge of enterprise architecture, including cloud technologies, infrastructure, networks, integration and application platforms.
- Proven experience designing and assuring secure, scalable, reliable and cost-effective technical solutions.
- A track record of providing architectural oversight and assurance for solutions delivered by third-party suppliers.
- Experience working across multi-supplier delivery environments, coordinating technical designs and ensuring interoperability.
- Strong understanding of cyber security principles and their application within complex or regulated organisations.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior technical and non-technical audiences.
- The ability to assess technical risks, challenge proposed solutions constructively and make informed architectural decisions.
- Security Check (SC) clearance, or willingness to undergo the required vetting process.
- Experience within the nuclear, energy or another highly regulated sector.
- Knowledge of large-scale infrastructure or major capital project delivery.
- Professional certifications such as TOGAF, ITIL or cloud certifications covering AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
- Familiarity with enterprise digital transformation, emerging technologies and modern architectural best practices.
- Experience supporting major infrastructure programmes involving complex supplier relationships.
#J-18808-Ljbffr
Technical Architect employer: iDPP
Join a forward-thinking company that values innovation and collaboration, where as a Senior Mechanical Engineer, you will have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge products in challenging environments. Our supportive work culture fosters professional growth, offering continuous learning opportunities and the chance to take ownership of your designs from concept to manufacture. Located in a vibrant area, we provide a dynamic workplace that encourages creativity and teamwork, making it an excellent choice for engineers looking to make a meaningful impact.
