Lead Technical Architect

Job description

The client is looking for a highly experienced Lead Technical Architect with strong AI-specific architecture, Google Cloud and multi-cloud expertise to lead the technical design and delivery of secure enterprise AI solutions within Central Government.

The successful candidate will identify opportunities for AI adoption and have the technical capability to architect and execute solutions, including AI-assisted and agentic workflows.

This is a hands-on technical leadership position requiring expertise in cloud infrastructure, AI security, enterprise integration and architectural governance.

Essential Skills

• AI Architecture: Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise AI solutions, including AI-assisted or agentic workflows. Must demonstrate genuine AI-specific delivery experience.
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP): Strong hands-on Google Cloud architecture experience, particularly secure Cloud Landing Zones.
• Multi-Cloud Architecture: Proven experience architecting complex enterprise solutions across multiple cloud platforms, particularly GCP and AWS.
• VPC Service Controls: Demonstrable expertise configuring and implementing Google Cloud VPC Service Controls. Key requirement.
• AI Security & Guardrails: Experience implementing AI security controls, human-in-the-loop approval processes, prompt protection and PII masking.
• Identity & Access Management: Strong knowledge of IAM, identity federation, Workload Identity Federation (WIF) and Microsoft Entra ID.
• Enterprise Architecture: Experience designing scalable microservices, modular architectures, APIs and vendor-neutral integration solutions.
• Government Governance: Understanding of Technical Design Authority (TDA), DPIAs, cyber security assurance and NCSC security standards.
• Technical Leadership: Ability to make strategic architecture decisions, influence senior stakeholders and lead technical teams.