Lead Technical Architect - Integration and Solution Delivery

• Hybrid - with at least 1-2 days per week on-site - Winchester, Farnborough, Croydon, Bromley
• Must have or be eligible for UK Security Clearance, and Non-Police Personnel Vetting Level 3 (NPPV3)
• £100000 - £110000PA + benefits

About the Role:

Digital Skills are looking for an experienced and highly skilled Lead Technical Architect with a focus on system delivery assurance and integration architectures. This role is to join a client on a large program of work and will play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and overseeing the delivery of solutions for large-scale mission-critical systems. You will need to have at least 8 years of demonstrable expert-level architecture and technical leadership experience, including deep knowledge of application and integration architectures. You will define and communicate architectures, provide client-facing strategic and technical direction, and perform strong and detailed assurance of supplier solution deliveries.

Qualifications/Experience required:

• 8+ years of experience in senior technical leadership, including defining architectures and being responsible for the technical success of large-scale mission-critical systems.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with both client and supplier teams and provide technical mentorship.
• Expert-level experience in application and integration architectures.
• Extensive experience in systems integration and working with large IT Services organisations.
• Proven experience in client-facing technical leadership roles.
• Experience in secure solutions delivery.
• Experience working with different architecture methods, tools and frameworks.
• Experience defining technology roadmaps, technology transformation strategies and transitional architectures.
• Proven experience in project management, particularly in planning, and risk and dependency management.
• An excellent and self-reliant communicator - being able to create, document and communicate architectural, strategic and solution delivery aspects.
• Ability to work in a Multi-supplier environment.

Preferred Skills & experience:

• Experience with large-scale distributed processing systems.
• Experience in architecting and delivering biometric processing systems (fingerprint, face, DNA).
• Experience in other architectural disciplines ie business, data, performance, infrastructure, and security.
• Experience in engineering cloud-based solutions.
• Delivery of government secure solution delivery.
• Experience of solution service integration.
• Experience with test approaches for large-scale system deliveries.
• Demonstrable architecture skills and experience to an industry benchmarked level.
• Expertise in compliance standards such as GDPR, HIPAA, SOC2, and ISO 27001.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to client technical teams, guiding them through complex technical challenges and architectural decisions.
• Develop solutions that conform to organisational standards, principles, strategies, and technical/commercial constraints.
• Understand business customer demands and requirements and ensure alignment to system supplier deliveries.
• Evaluate and provide technical assurance for supplier solutions.
• Apply assurance and governance to supplier deliveries to meet desired business outcomes.
• Develop and maintain technology roadmaps for client systems.
• Oversee the capture of requirements and provide technical input to procurements and tenders.
• Contribute to technical design authorities by communicating ideas and seeking consensus.
• Perform a Systems Integration role, ensuring supplier solutions and deliveries align.
• Ensure solution compliance with security and governance standards and frameworks.
• Work with client and supplier quality and test organisations to ensure adequate quality in the delivery of complex solutions.
• Ensure that architectures are compliant with industry regulations (eg, GDPR, HIPAA) and company security policies, and ensure appropriate security controls are implemented across all solutions.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks in supplier solutions and deliveries to meet stakeholder objectives.
• Develop and maintain architectural standards, design patterns, and documentation, ensuring a shared understanding of technical solutions.
• Capturing/documenting architectural decisions.

If this sounds like the right role for you and you have the skills and experience required, please do apply.