The Lead Technical Architect will work across multiple projects or teams on problems that require broad architectural thinking. They will share the responsibility for establishing the Home Office approach to Technical Architecture and guide projects in using architectures, principles, standards and tooling to deliver new systems and services for citizens and Home Office users.

As a Lead Technical Architect, you will assure other services and system quality, making sure the technical work fits into the broader strategy for government. You will be responsible for leading the technical design of systems and services, including detailed plans for integration. You will also explore the benefits of cross-government alignment of systems and services. You will be the primary interface for technical requirements and product design. In addition, you will own the creation and delivery of the technical strategy.

You will be responsible for building optimal designs through an iterative process by actively driving post implementation reviews and leading the identification of best practice and lessons learnt. You will build effective partnerships with diverse teams across multiple locations and technologies and provide mentoring and leadership and to other architects.

As a Lead Technical Architect your main responsibilities would be:

• Creating optimal technical designs through an iterative process, aligning such factors as the user need within the system requirements, security and organisational objectives.
• Leading the design and review processes for new solution and services, evidencing the inclusion of ‘Secure by Design” in the technical designs you produce, oversee and approve.
• Developing and documenting the proposed technical design for the integration and implementation of any solution, working with and across other areas of DDaT and the business.
• Presenting recommendations for technologies or improvements to enhance systems to support project goals clearly to senior management, based on knowledge of IT and analysis of systems’ needs.
• Contributing to the development of architectural practice, ensuring a coherent and consistent strategy across cyber, cloud, data centre, storage, network, mobile and the user experience of infrastructure.
• Contributing to the overall technical strategy and road map for the department in your area of expertise.
• Valuating the success of a project, once the solution has been integrated, identifying best practices and lessons learned.
• Providing feedback to leadership and incorporating best practices and lessons learned into future integration plans.
• Managing, coaching and mentoring more junior Technical Architects.

Essential:

• An active SC Clearance is essential for this role.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-base services (ideally AWS) and cloud native solutions.
• Practical experience of architecting and designing solutions is desirable, following best practices for designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud, aligned to the AWS Well-Architecture Framework.
• Good technical knowledge and experience of: Kubernetes, Kafka (Confluent and/or MSK), AWS SQS, Microservices, Serverless Technologies.

"In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following: this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different."

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.