Senior Technical Architect
Duration: 6 Months
Location: Milton Keynes & remote (hybrid)
Rate: £650 per day
Start: ASAP
IR35 Status: Inside
A Senior Technical Architect is required for our Government client to support with the delivery and management of security capabilities.
You will work with customers, engineering and development teams to support the solution whilst maintaining key business relationships to ensure security.
You will primarily be working on the delivering of a key security product.
Liaising with stakeholders/customers and interpreting business requirements into technical ones; lead technical customer workshops
Support technical teams in delivery of capabilities, providing 4th level technical oversight to customer issues.
Maintenance and development of high and low designs for product
Impact assessment of functional, capability and security changes
Review, analyse and approve project requests to ensure any technology changes or improvements meet Client standards and make effective use of standards, principles, tools and patterns;
Support governance activities as well as understand existing and emerging technologies and be able to illustrate options and cost benefits
Essentials Skills & Experience required
As the Senior Technical Architect you will possess excellent people skills with the ability to explain and understand technical complexity.
Have previous experience including technologies in enterprise and virtual environments and of working within a secure government or defence environment *essential*
Possess experience of server/operating systems (Microsoft and Linux), network technologies
Hybrid Cloud
Gateways
PKI
Email
VMware virtualisation platforms (including VCD, VSAN, and NSX)
SASE architecture
Cisco
Palo Alto
Experience creating technical and architectural documents such as options assessments, low and high-level technical designs.
DevSecOps experience in automation and improvement in development and release processes (Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery).
Experience of requirements management and the ownership of requirements.
Experience in design and migration to public cloud capabilities in M365/Azure and AWS.
Working knowledge of auditing and security products configuration.
A comprehensive understanding of NCSC, GDS, CIS, Cyber Essentials, and NIST IT security principles, together with previous experience of UK government technology strategies and policies.
Desirable would be any experience in Infrastructure as Code (IAC) and Microservices
Have experience working in a matrix organisation structure
If this role is of interest please email your CV to:
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