Hackajob Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Lead Technical Architect
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 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.
Key Responsibilities
* 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, 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.
* 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.
* 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.
Responsible For Assuring The 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.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
* Prioritise a positive employee experience: invest in maintaining a positive employee experience while ensuring constraints and controls are lightweight, jargon free, relevant and just enough.
* Align to commercial goals: understand and align improvements to the commercial goals of the business and facilitate commercial growth wherever possible.
* Value close collaboration: collaborate and work with colleagues across the business in a supportive way, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
* Take a pragmatic approach: balance risk and reward appropriately and make right decisions to enable the business to achieve its long-term vision.
Job Benefits
We believe we can use tech to make public services better. We’re committed to building a happy, inclusive and diverse workforce. Our benefits include a flexible benefit platform, Smart Tech scheme, Cycle to Work scheme, individual benefits allowance, pay for healthcare cash or pension plan, flexible hours, casual parental leave, remote working options, paid counselling, flexible holidays, and more.
Life at Made Tech
We’re committed to building a happy, inclusive and diverse workforce. You can get a sense of what it’s like working here from our blog, where we talk about mental health, communities of practice and neurodiversity.
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Notices
Alternative formats and support for applicants are available upon request. We welcome feedback on improving the experience for future candidates.
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