Overview
As a Lead Technical Architect, you'll play a key role in shaping and delivering the technology that supports customer‑facing and internal services at scale. This is a senior, influential role where your architectural decisions will directly support DVLA’s future direction. If you enjoy setting technical vision, guiding delivery teams and influencing senior leaders, this role offers real scope and impact.
About the role: You’ll work within DVLA’s IT Services (ITS) Directorate, collaborating across:
* Engineering squads
* Architects and technical leads
* Business directorates
Responsibilities
* Lead the technical design of systems and services, clearly justifying and communicating architectural decisions
* Assure solution quality, ensuring consistency with DVLA, DfT and government‑wide strategies
* Explore opportunities for cross‑government architectural alignment
* Work collaboratively with engineering squads to transition new solutions into live operation
* Set standards and provide architectural governance and assurance
* Mentor and support architects and engineers across teams
* Provide leadership to the wider architecture community
* Line‑manage and develop colleagues, creating an environment where people can thrive
Qualifications and Experience
* Has operated as a technical or solution architect on enterprise‑scale systems
* Is confident owning architecture end‑to‑end, from design through delivery and assurance
* Enjoys working with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders
* Can influence and challenge senior leaders constructively
* Likes balancing strategic vision with practical delivery realities
* Strong experience of infrastructure and cloud technologies
* Unified communications and omni‑channel contact centre solutions
* Networking concepts (LAN / WAN / WLAN)
* Microsoft Entra ID, O365, and hybrid Active Directory environments
* Microsoft Azure Cloud Adoption Framework principles
* Designing systems that protect sensitive data
* Collaboratively creating and evolving solution designs
* Providing technical leadership, governance and assurance across complex solutions
Location: London, England, United Kingdom.
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