Technical Architect
Posted 5 days ago by Hays Specialist Recruitment
£600 Per day
Inside
Remote
Scotland, UK
Summary: The Technical Solutions Architect role involves designing and delivering innovative ICT solutions that align with business needs throughout the project lifecycle. This position requires collaboration with stakeholders to translate requirements into effective solution designs while ensuring technical governance and quality. The role is pivotal in shaping the organization's technological landscape and involves oversight during implementation and post-implementation reviews. The contract is for 12 to 18 months and is classified as inside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop enterprise architecture models that are consistent and coherent across projects, ensuring effective reuse of materials.
- Lead architecture development assignments across projects and programmes, promoting technical innovation and working closely with business and technical stakeholders.
- Translate business requirements into solution designs, options papers, and implementation assessments aligned with Enterprise Architecture.
- Support ICT Leads in creating business cases and defining technical requirements and ITT documentation.
- Act as Technical Design Authority for ICT solutions within the DF Data Management Capability project.
- Ensure technical functionality goals are met and solutions are seamlessly delivered into production.
- Advise on governance arrangements for architecture and technology selection, ensuring removal of redundant technologies.
- Present tactical and strategic benefits of architectural governance to justify investments.
- Scope and define technical evaluation projects, assessing requirements and recommending solutions aligned with strategic vision.
- Provide oversight during implementation and participate in post-implementation reviews.
- Serve as a subject-matter expert for technical delivery, frameworks, methods, and tools.
- Offer technical expertise and high-level estimates during pipeline planning and initiation phases.
- Maintain constructive relationships with suppliers and evaluate vendor offerings for ROI and lifetime cost of ownership.
- Research emerging technologies and assess opportunities for reuse within ICT services.
- Ensure gradual handover to production, including design and system test documentation, and participate in ITIL service delivery processes.
- Verify technical quality throughout the project lifecycle and produce documentation for product acceptance.
Key Skills:
- Degree in a technical discipline or equivalent job experience.
- Strong understanding of ITIL Service Management principles.
- Ability to create end-to-end solution designs for new services or solutions.
- Full lifecycle experience developing architectural views in accordance with frameworks such as TOGAF or Zachman.
- Expertise in Core Cloud platforms, migrations, architecture design, and security/compliance.
- Excellent organisational, prioritisation, and time management skills.
- Ability to present and communicate complex ideas clearly to technical and business stakeholders.
- Proactive problem-solving approach and strong team collaboration skills.
Salary (Rate): £600.0 daily
City: Scotland
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Technical/Solutions Architect
Location: Scotland Based and Remote
Contract - 12 to 18 months - Inside IR35 - £500-£600pd
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Technical Solutions Architect to design and deliver innovative, cost-efficient ICT solutions that meet business needs throughout the entire project lifecycle-from understanding requirements to transitioning into BAU support. This is a pivotal role in shaping and delivering technological solutions for the organisation.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop enterprise architecture models that are consistent and coherent across projects, ensuring effective reuse of materials.
- Lead architecture development assignments across projects and programmes, promoting technical innovation and working closely with business and technical stakeholders.
- Translate business requirements into solution designs, options papers, and implementation assessments aligned with Enterprise Architecture.
- Support ICT Leads in creating business cases and defining technical requirements and ITT documentation.
- Act as Technical Design Authority for ICT solutions within the DF Data Management Capability project.
- Ensure technical functionality goals are met and solutions are seamlessly delivered into production.
- Advise on governance arrangements for architecture and technology selection, ensuring removal of redundant technologies.
- Present tactical and strategic benefits of architectural governance to justify investments.
- Scope and define technical evaluation projects, assessing requirements and recommending solutions aligned with strategic vision.
- Provide oversight during implementation and participate in post-implementation reviews.
- Serve as a subject-matter expert for technical delivery, frameworks, methods, and tools.
- Offer technical expertise and high-level estimates during pipeline planning and initiation phases.
- Maintain constructive relationships with suppliers and evaluate vendor offerings for ROI and lifetime cost of ownership.
- Research emerging technologies and assess opportunities for reuse within ICT services.
- Ensure gradual handover to production, including design and system test documentation, and participate in ITIL service delivery processes.
- Verify technical quality throughout the project lifecycle and produce documentation for product acceptance.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Degree in a technical discipline or equivalent job experience.
- Strong understanding of ITIL Service Management principles.
- Ability to create end-to-end solution designs for new services or solutions.
- Full lifecycle experience developing architectural views in accordance with frameworks such as TOGAF or Zachman.
- Expertise in Core Cloud platforms, migrations, architecture design, and security/compliance.
- Excellent organisational, prioritisation, and time management skills.
- Ability to present and communicate complex ideas clearly to technical and business stakeholders.
- Proactive problem-solving approach and strong team collaboration skills.
Desirable Skills
- Experience engaging with third-party vendors and writing technical content for Tenders/ITT/ITQ.
- Project management experience (eg, PRINCE2) to support technical governance.
- Familiarity with Business Process Modelling, Software Development Testing/Audit strategies, and Technical Authoring.
- Strong commercial awareness and flexibility in working practices.
Personal Attributes
- Open attitude towards sharing ideas and mentoring others.
- Ability to work under pressure and use initiative.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
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