(SC cleared) Technical Architect

Methods Analytics is currently recruiting for a Technical Architect to join our team on a permanent basis. This role will be remote but require flexibility to travel to client sites, and our offices in London, Sheffield and Bristol.

Salary range - £70,000 to £90,000

The Technical Architect will be:

• Specialising in cloud platforms, applications, data and supporting infrastructure.
• Working with other members of the delivery team across a mix of large and small projects and be responsible for translating data into valuable insights that inform decisions for small to large transformation projects and programmes.
• Translating business problems into technical designs, creating optimal designs through iterative processes, aligning user needs with organisational objectives and system requirements.
• Advocating the business benefit of data standards, championing and governing those standards across projects and the organisation.
• Able to recognise and exploit business opportunities to ensure efficient and effective performance of organisations, developing and setting architecture standards for an organisation.
• Demonstrating an overall perspective on business issues, events and activities, and an understanding of their wider implications and long-term impact.
• This will include determining patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements.
• Making and guiding effective decisions, explaining clearly how the decision has been reached with the ability to understand and resolve technical disputes across varying levels of complexity and risk.
• Communicating effectively across organisational, technical and political boundaries to understand the context and how to make complex and technical information and language simple and accessible for non-technical audiences.
• Understanding of how to expose data from systems (for example, through APIs), link data from multiple systems and deliver streaming services.
• Ensuring that risks associated with deployment are adequately understood and documented.

Ideal Candidates will demonstrate:

• Ability to look beyond the immediate technical problem and identify the wider implications.
• Solid experience in a range of technologies and be able to make assessments as to what is best to be used for the projects and the organisation.
• As well as suggest and develop innovative approaches within constrained projects and environments.
• Experience in designing technical services, selecting from a core set of digital platforms and technologies.
• Strong experience in software development, change / release management processes, and technical governance to fully understand the typical lifecycle and maintenance of live systems.
• Solid infrastructure design experience for both on-prem and cloud, to implement or migrate applications and databases to Azure and AWS.
• Have experience of functional and non-functional testing including automated deployment experience of applications and databases.
• Understanding of the government digital service manual and standards across Discovery/Alpha/Beta/Live phases.
• Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS technologies and the implications of their use compared with bespoke development.
• Effective communication across organisational, technical and political boundaries, understanding the context of the project.
• An ability to make complex technical information and language simple and accessible for non-technical audiences.
• The ability to translate technical concepts, advocate and communicate the functions of the team to create trust and authenticity, and can respond to challenge.
• An ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications.
• Attention to detail and ability to QA own and other team member's work.
• Being able to provide training, support and mentoring to the wider business.
• Awareness of and ability to keep up to date with advances in data services and architectural practices.
• Knowledge of how to ensure that risks associated with deployment are adequately understood and documented.

Requirements:

• Minimum certification requirements of AZ900 and 104, with 305 being desirable.
• Exposure to high performing, low latency or large volume data systems (i.e. 1 billion+ records, terabyte size database).
• You can make and guide effective decisions, explaining clearly how the decision has been reached.
• You must have the ability to understand and resolve technical disputes across varying levels of complexity and risk.
• Design or operation of a range of Azure or AWS hosted Analytics applications, databases or services, including Machine Learning.
• Worked as part of multi-disciplinary project team, for example, collaboration with UR/UX.

Security Clearance: UKSV (United Kingdom Security Vetting) clearance is required for this role, with Security Check (SC) as the minimum standard.

Benefits:

• Working at MA Methods Analytics (MA) exists to improve society by helping people make better decisions with data.
• Combining passionate people, sector-specific insight, and technical excellence to provide our customers an end-to-end data service.
• We use a collaborative, creative and user centric approach to data to do good and solve difficult problems.
• Ensuring that our outputs are transparent, robust, and transformative.
• We value discussion and debate as part of our approach.
• We will question assumptions, ambition, and process – but do so with respect and humility.
• We relish difficult problems, and overcome them with innovation, creativity, and technical freedom to help us design optimum solutions.
• Ethics, privacy, and quality are at the heart of our work, and we will not sacrifice these for outcomes.
• We treat data with respect and use it only for the right purpose.
• Our people are positive, dedicated, and relentless.
• Data is a vast topic, but we strive for interactions that are engaging, informative and fun in equal measure.
• But maintain a steely focus on outcomes and delivering quality products for our customers.
• We are passionate about our people; we want our colleagues to develop the things they are good at and enjoy.

By joining us you can expect:

• Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience.
• Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society.
• Strong, inspiring, and thought-provoking leadership.
• A supportive and collaborative environment.

As well as this, we offer:

• Development access to Pluralsight and LinkedIn Learning.
• Wellness 24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme.
• Social - office parties, pizza Friday and commitment to charitable causes.
• Time off - 25 days of annual leave a year, plus bank holidays, with the option to buy 5 extra days each year.
• Volunteering - 2 paid days per year to volunteer in our local communities or within a charity organisation.
• Pension Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution.
• Discretionary Company Bonus based on company and individual performance.
• Life Assurance of 4 times base salary.
• Private Medical Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included).
• Worldwide Travel Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included).