Lead Technical Architect (Contract) in Swansea

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.

Responsible for helping to ensure the successful delivery of high quality technical outcomes for our clients:

• 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.
• 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.
• Shape and deliver opportunities on client accounts by providing expert engagement as a trusted technical leader.
• 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.

Responsible for assuring the quality of technical deliveries:

• Reviewing architecture quality at various checkpoints throughout a delivery’s lifecycle.
• Where constraints or controls are necessary ensure these do not overly encumber people delivering for our clients, where policies are required ensure these are lightweight, jargon free, relevant and “just enough”.

Align to commercial goals:

• We understand and align improvements to the commercial goals of the business. Ensure all prioritised activities can be related back to the commercial benefit they will deliver. Facilitate commercial growth wherever possible.
• Help foster a culture of continuous improvement by offering both constructive and reinforcing feedback. We balance risk and reward appropriately, and seek to make the right decisions to enable the business to achieve its long-term vision.

We’re committed to building a happy, inclusive and diverse workforce.

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.

• 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
• We offer paid counselling as well as financial and legal advice

An increasing number of our customers are specifying a minimum of SC (security check) clearance in order to work on their projects. Eligibility for SC requires 5 years' continuous UK residency and 5 year' employment history (or back to full-time education).

We help organisations transform, deliver and manage world-class digital products and services.

We’re helping local authorities make it easier and quicker for people to log housing repairs online. By digitalising access to NHS services we’re making it more accessible, such as children needing mental health support.

We’re helping to drive better environmental outcomes by improving network performance through real-time asset monitoring, which means less wasted energy.

We were recently named as a finalist in the Raising the Bar for Workplace Transparency Award in the Shift People Awards.