[ref. u32242400] Senior Technical Architect

Senior Technical Architect required to work with a Government department. This is an initial 12 month contract, paying £745 a day, inside IR35, hybrid working.

Job Description:

The role will initially work closely with a Principal Technical Architect, and will help form a team around the delivery of APIs.

• Work with Service Owners and others to help bring on board a delivery team
• Collaborate and find agreement with senior stakeholders, providing both technical and non-technical direction and challenge
• Guide technical teams, influence technical choices and seek out opportunities for digital transformation
• Assure other services and system quality, ensuring the technical work fits into the broader strategy for the agency
• Align your team's work with departmental and wider government technology strategy
• Support hiring, taking part in recruitment for both Technical Architects and other professions such as Software Developers

• Programming languages such as TypeScript/Node, Kotlin/Java.
• AWS and/or Azure using infrastructure as code such as Terraform, CloudFormation
• Container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
• Public GitHub repositories for our work
• Modern development practices such as domain-driven design, test-driven development, continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Mac laptops
• plus other tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, AppInsights, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, and more

• Key: API development/management
• Key: working across multiple organisations
• Key: great communication skills
• Experience in a technical/solution architecture role and can act as a recognised technical expert to guide, critique and support teams in the delivery of outcomes
• Practical working knowledge of modern cloud-first architectures, and how to build applications to take advantage of the opportunities they offer
• Experience of devising software architecture for multitier web solutions which typically include frontend and/or backend microservices, event-driven processing, API provision/consumption, databases, and pub/sub patterns.
• Able to identify and mitigate security risks when designing and operating in a public cloud environment
• Experience of architecting digital services that align to a wider technical strategy that meets business needs
• Experience of making and guiding effective technical choices by understanding the trends and practices within the broader organisation
• Capable of looking for deeper underlying problems and opportunities
• Translates technical concepts between multidisciplinary teams and other stakeholders so they are understood by all. Expert at mediating and mending relationships and communicating with senior stakeholders.
• Can act decisively and make bold, unbiased decisions. Able to clearly communicate the purpose and reasons for recommendations and decisions.
• Can consult with others where necessary to ensure decisions meet the diverse needs of the end users. Clearly recommend the best option articulating risks and impacts
• Ensure plans and activities in your area of work reflect wider strategic priorities and communicate effectively with senior leaders to influence future strategies
• Technical leadership of teams. You have demonstrable experience of leading technical teams in the successful delivery of complex outcomes. You can work across disciplines and are able to engage with a wide range of technical professions

You will need an active SC clearance.

Please apply should you fit the above criteria