Technical Architect

Role: Senior .NET Technical Architect

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Coventry & London, UK / Hybrid

Number of hours: 40 hours per week – full time

Ready to utilise your experience and expertise in .NET Technical Architecture? We have an exciting opportunity for you – Senior .NET Technical Architect!

Careers at TCS: It Means More. TCS is a purpose‑led transformation company, built on belief. We do not just help businesses to transform through technology. We support them in making a meaningful difference to the people and communities they serve. Our clients include some of the biggest brands in the UK and worldwide. For you, it means more — the opportunity to make an impact that matters through challenging, high‑profile transformation programmes that demand ambitious innovation and thought leadership.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive end‑to‑end technical architecture for scalable, secure, and resilient platforms.
• Define, govern, and enforce architectural, engineering, and coding standards.
• Lead cloud‑native solution design leveraging public cloud platforms and container orchestration technologies.
• Strengthen DevOps practices through CI/CD automation and Infrastructure‑as‑Code adoption.
• Design and embed observability frameworks including monitoring, logging, alerting, and SLO/SLI practices.
• Provide hands‑on technical guidance and architectural leadership to engineering teams.
• Ensure solutions comply with security frameworks, regulatory standards, and Zero‑Trust principles.
• Support delivery of high‑quality, fault‑tolerant systems through continuous improvement and technical excellence.
• Collaborate with architects, product owners, delivery leads, and business stakeholders to align technology strategy with business outcomes.
• Contribute to solutioning activities, design assurance, technical roadmaps, and architectural governance for complex programmes.

Your Profile:

• Strong experience working as a Technical Architect within large, enterprise‑scale environments.
• Deep expertise in cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure.
• Strong experience designing and operating containerised solutions using Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure‑as‑Code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
• Solid understanding of security frameworks, compliance standards, and Zero‑Trust architecture concepts.
• Experience designing scalable microservices and event‑driven architectures.
• Proven expertise in observability, monitoring, incident management, and SLO/SLI design.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage and influence senior technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Advanced understanding of software engineering standards, testing strategies, and quality practices.
• Familiarity with modern frontend or mobile ecosystems such as React, Next.js, or React Native.
• Experience supporting large‑scale retail operational platforms or workforce management systems.
• Knowledge of performance engineering, resiliency patterns, and reliability‑focused design approaches.
• Exposure to automation frameworks and tooling that improve developer experience and engineering efficiency.

TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone, access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network.

Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing:

Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is committed to meeting the needs of all individuals in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010 and the UK Human Rights Act 1998. We believe in building and sustaining a culture of equity and belonging where everyone can thrive. Our diversity and inclusion motto is ‘Inclusion without Exception’. Our continued commitment to Culture and Diversity is reflected across our workforce implemented through equitable workplace policies and processes.

You’ll find a welcoming culture and many internal volunteering and social networks to join (these are optional). Our diversity, inclusion and social activities include 12 employee networks such as gender diversity, LGBTQIA+ & Allies, mental health, disability & neurodiversity inclusion and many more, as well as health & wellness initiatives and sports events and we sponsor the London Marathon.

We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation. We are a disability inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply for this role.

If you are an applicant who needs any adjustments to the application process or interview, please contact us at UKI.recruitment@tcs.com with the subject line: “Adjustment Request” or call TCS London Office 02031552100 to request an adjustment. We welcome requests prior to you completing the application and at any stage of the recruitment process.

Join us and do more of what matters. Apply online now.