Lead Technical Architect

About the role

We are seeking a Lead Technical Architect to join one of our Government Clients.

You will lead the creation of a solution high-level design to support key environmental and sustainability initiatives.

You will be working closely with domain specialists, enterprise architects, and engineering teams, you will establish a robust architecture to resolve complex data ingestion challenges.

A primary objective is validating and documenting high level requirements to ensure the solution is fully prepared for market tender.

Key Responsibilities

• Solution High-Level Design: Facilitate key discovery sessions to shape, define, and produce a comprehensive Solution design aligned with departmental objectives.
• Requirements Validation & Documentation: Collaborate across technical and non technical teams to capture, validate, and formalise high level requirements into procurement ready documentation.
• Tender Readiness: Structure technical specifications and architectural boundaries to enable seamless market engagement for future contract implementation.
• Data Integration Strategy: Architect a target data pattern capable of ingesting, transforming, and standardising complex multi source datasets.

Essential Experience & Skills

• Proven track record as a Lead Solution Architect delivering HLDs within short timeframe engagements.
• Data & ETL Expertise: Extensive experience designing architectures that handle disparate data sources, formats, and legacy/modern systems, with a focus on ETL pipelines and normalising to a single data pattern.
• Public Sector Frameworks: Hands on experience preparing functional and technical requirements for UK Public Sector procurement.
• Stakeholder Management: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to bridge the gap between policy/sustainability leads, technical architects, and delivery engineers.

Desirable Experience

• Background working with central government departments or public sector agencies.
• Exposure to environmental data.