Palantir Technical Architect £Up to £110,000 GBP Onsite WORKING Location: Bristol; Gloucester; Cardiff; Plymouth; Belfast; Edinburgh; Glasgow; Manchester; Liverpool; Leeds; Sheffield; Norwich;, Bristol, South West - United Kingdom Type: Permanent Client: Join a world-class organisation where your work supports the UK's most critical Defence, Healthcare, and Public Sector programmes. Our client has been recognised as a Times Top 100 Company for 7 years in a row, delivering impact through technology, transformation, and consulting, underpinned by a culture of innovation, collaboration, and integrity. As a Technical Architect, you will lead the design and delivery of modern data-driven solutions, ensuring high-quality integration and performance across distributed systems. Our client works on the UK's most Mission-Critical Defence Projects where you'll work alongside talented colleagues in engineering, testing, consulting, product management, and security to build scalable, secure, and high-performing platforms. You will also contribute to technical decisions, mentor junior engineers, and help foster an inclusive, collaborative culture within the data and architecture community. Our client invests in cutting-edge tools, learning opportunities, and professional development, empowering teams to grow and thrive. Flexible and hybrid working arrangements are supported, alongside a strong focus on wellbeing. Take the opportunity to do meaningful work, shape the data platforms that underpin the nation's most important services, and build long-lasting professional relationships in a culture that genuinely values your growth. This role is perfect for a Technical Architect seeking real impact, career progression, and the chance to work on the most bespoke defence projects in the UK. You'll have the opportunity to: • Successfully implement functional and non-functional technical designs. • Collaborate closely with customer architects to define solution standards, effort estimates, and technical implications. • Set technical standards and ensure they are upheld by engineering teams. • Manage and estimate delivery timelines for complex technical components. • Contribute to or lead technical solution design during pre-sales cycles. • Mentor, coach, and guide team members while shaping the wider data and analytics capability. • Make a meaningful contribution to the data analysis community and technical direction of key programmes. Key Requirements: • Experience owning the technical architecture for a component, subsystem, or product (e.g., data ingestion or streaming). • Strong client interaction skills with the ability to present technical decisions to non-technical audiences. • Experience applying design patterns, development standards, and operational readiness practices. • Proven experience designing, building, and productionising distributed, data-intensive applications. • Proficient in Java, Scala, or Python, with comfort across multiple programming paradigms. • Experience deploying contemporary data stores (object, document, key-value, search, RDBMS, graph). • Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, or Databricks data-processing platforms. • Comfortable with data integration techniques such as messaging, queuing, CDC, or data virtualisation. Desirable: • Understanding of Data Warehouse techniques. • Contributions to engineering or data communities. • Cloud certifications (AWS/Azure/GCP) in data services. • Experience driving continuous improvement and modern data best practices. Benefits: • Competitive Bonus • Private Medical Cover • Company Share Plan • Generous Holiday Package (Ability to Buy and Sell) • Training and Development • Comprehensive Pension Package Reference: AMC/AON/Palantir aao