SC Cleared Senior Technical Architect
Posted 1 day ago by Alexander Mann Solutions - Public Sector Resourcing on JobServe
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
City of London, UK
Summary: The Ministry of Justice is seeking a Senior Technical Architect for a 12-month hybrid contract, requiring SC Clearance. The role involves leading technical strategy and architecture within a multi-disciplinary team focused on creating a unified identity record system for individuals in HMPPS. The position emphasizes collaboration, mentoring, and aligning technical work with government technology strategies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work with the Principal Technical Architect to define, maintain and own the technical strategy and roadmap for services of various sizes and complexity.
- Guide technical teams, influence technical choices and seek out opportunities for digital transformation.
- Undertake structured evaluation of technical concepts, translating this into technical designs that describe a solution.
- Align your team's work with departmental and wider government technology strategy.
- Look for opportunities to collaborate, communicating with both technical and non-technical people.
- Assure other services and system quality, ensuring the technical work fits into the broader strategy for the agency.
- Collaborate and find agreement with senior stakeholders, providing both technical and non-technical direction and challenge.
- Mentor, coach, and line manage senior and mid-level technical architects.
Key Skills:
- Experience in a technical/solution architecture role within multi-disciplinary teams.
- Practical working knowledge of modern cloud-first architectures.
- Experience of devising software architecture for multitier web solutions.
- Able to identify and mitigate security risks in a public cloud environment.
- Experience of building software to meet user needs.
- Experience of introducing and championing best practices such as TDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and DevOps.
- Expert at mediating and mending relationships and communicating with senior stakeholders.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: City of London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT