Senior Technical Lead
Posted 1 day ago by Venturi
Negotiable
Inside
Remote
England, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Tech Lead / Lead Architect involves providing technical leadership and architectural direction for a large-scale greenfield digital platform in a regulated healthcare environment. This position emphasizes stakeholder alignment and guiding multidisciplinary teams rather than hands-on software development. The successful candidate will ensure that solutions meet security and regulatory requirements while establishing engineering standards and best practices. Occasional travel to London or Leeds is required, with a predominantly remote working arrangement.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as the overall technical authority for a greenfield programme, setting architectural vision and ensuring alignment with organisational strategy.
- Lead and mentor multi-disciplinary delivery teams, including engineers, devops, product, delivery, and suppliers.
- Define and own target architecture, including cloud platforms, integration patterns, data flows, security, and non-functional requirements.
- Provide hands-on architectural leadership where needed (e.g. design reviews, assurance, shaping delivery approaches), without being a primary coder.
- Establish and uphold engineering standards, technical governance, and best practices across the programme.
- Work closely with senior stakeholders (technical and non-technical) to translate policy, clinical, and operational needs into pragmatic technical solutions.
- Ensure solutions meet stringent security, data protection, and regulatory requirements, including patient data considerations.
- Support supplier management, procurement alignment, and assurance activities.
- Contribute to delivery planning, risk management, and dependency management from a technical perspective.
Key Skills:
- Proven experience operating as a Lead Architect / Principal Architect / Technical Lead on large, complex programmes.
- Strong background in architecture and devops rather than pure software development.
- Deep experience delivering within healthcare, public sector, or similarly regulated environments.
- Track record of leading greenfield or major transformation programmes from discovery through delivery.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Platform and integration design (APIs, messaging, interoperability).
- DevOps, CI/CD, and modern operating models.
- Security-by-design and data protection.
- Comfortable working within multi-supplier ecosystems and hybrid delivery models.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at senior and executive level.
- Able to balance strategic thinking with pragmatic delivery decisions.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Tech Lead / Lead Architect (Contract) 6-Month Contract | Inside IR35 £800–£850 per day Predominantly Remote | Occasional travel to London or Leeds
Overview
We’re looking for an experienced Tech Lead / Lead Architect to play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering a large-scale greenfield digital platform within a complex, highly regulated healthcare environment. This role is less about hands-on software development and more about technical leadership, architectural direction, and stakeholder alignment. You’ll operate at the intersection of technology strategy, delivery governance, and clinical/operational realities, guiding multidisciplinary teams to build secure, scalable, and user-centred services.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as the overall technical authority for a greenfield programme, setting architectural vision and ensuring alignment with organisational strategy.
- Lead and mentor multi-disciplinary delivery teams, including engineers, devops, product, delivery, and suppliers.
- Define and own target architecture, including cloud platforms, integration patterns, data flows, security, and non-functional requirements.
- Provide hands-on architectural leadership where needed (e.g. design reviews, assurance, shaping delivery approaches), without being a primary coder.
- Establish and uphold engineering standards, technical governance, and best practices across the programme.
- Work closely with senior stakeholders (technical and non-technical) to translate policy, clinical, and operational needs into pragmatic technical solutions.
- Ensure solutions meet stringent security, data protection, and regulatory requirements, including patient data considerations.
- Support supplier management, procurement alignment, and assurance activities.
- Contribute to delivery planning, risk management, and dependency management from a technical perspective.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Proven experience operating as a Lead Architect / Principal Architect / Technical Lead on large, complex programmes.
- Strong background in architecture and devops rather than pure software development.
- Deep experience delivering within healthcare, public sector, or similarly regulated environments.
- Track record of leading greenfield or major transformation programmes from discovery through delivery.
- Strong understanding of: Cloud-native architectures (AWS, Azure, or GCP) Platform and integration design (APIs, messaging, interoperability) DevOps, CI/CD, and modern operating models Security-by-design and data protection Comfortable working within multi-supplier ecosystems and hybrid delivery models.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at senior and executive level.
- Able to balance strategic thinking with pragmatic delivery decisions.
Desirable Experience
- Experience aligning delivery to enterprise architecture standards and technology roadmaps.
- Familiarity with national-scale digital services, shared platforms, or cross-organisation integration.
- Experience working alongside policy, clinical, or operational stakeholders.
- Exposure to service design, user-centred design, or digital transformation at scale.
Personal Attributes
- Calm, credible, and authoritative leadership style.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and complexity.
- Pragmatic problem-solver with a strong sense of accountability.
- Able to “join the dots” between technology, delivery, and real-world outcomes.
- Passion for improving services that have a meaningful impact on people’s lives.