At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the design and delivery of innovative cloud-based architectures for diverse clients.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking tech company focused on growth and collaboration.
- Benefits: Enjoy 30 days holiday, flexible hours, remote work, and paid counselling.
- Other info: Be part of a supportive culture that values diversity and continuous improvement.
- Why this job: Shape the future of technology while making a real impact in various sectors.
- Qualifications: Proven experience in technical leadership and cloud architecture.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
Description
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.
- Outcomes
- 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, 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.
- Responsible For Driving Growth
- 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.
- Supporting Made Tech Colleagues
- Leading and championing the practice across Made Tech through community of practice involvement and 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.
- Assuring Quality Of Technical Deliveries
- 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
We invest in ensuring we maintain a positive employee experience.
Where constraints or controls are necessary, they should not overly encumber people delivering for our clients.
Policies should be lightweight, jargon‑free, relevant and “just enough”.
Align To Commercial Goals
We understand and align improvements to the commercial goals of the business.
All prioritised activities can be related back to the commercial benefit they will deliver.
Facilitate commercial growth wherever possible.
Value Close Collaboration
We collaborate and work with colleagues across the business in a positive and supportive way.
Help foster a culture of continuous improvement by offering both constructive and reinforcing feedback.
Be part of the solution.
Empower teams to deliver outcomes.
Take a Pragmatic Approach
We appreciate that as a rapidly growing business we sometimes need to make uncomfortable trade‑offs.
We balance risk and reward appropriately, and seek to make the right decisions to enable the business to achieve its long‑term vision.
- Job Benefits
- 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.
- Paid counselling – we offer paid counselling as well as financial and legal advice.
- Security Clearance
Successful candidates must be eligible for SC clearance: 5 years continuous UK residency and 5 years employment history (or back to full‑time education).
If at any point during the interview process it is apparent that you may not be eligible, the application will not progress.
We encourage people from under‑represented groups to apply for roles with us.
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