Senior Technical Architect

Summary: The Ministry of Justice is seeking a Senior Technical Architect for a 12-month hybrid contract, requiring SC Clearance and a commitment to work two days per week in any national UK office. The role involves leading technical strategy and architecture within a multi-disciplinary team focused on creating a centralized identity record system for individuals in HMPPS. Candidates with active security clearance will be prioritized due to the urgency of the position. The architect will guide technical teams and ensure alignment 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, defining how they integrate with other services and teams, and how they evolve over time
• 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, and how to build applications to take advantage of the opportunities they offer
• Experience of devising software architecture for multitier web solutions which typically include frontend and/or backend microservices, API provision/consumption, databases
• Able to identify and mitigate security risks when designing and operating 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 to teams
• Translates technical concepts between multidisciplinary teams and other stakeholders so they are understood by all. Expert at mediating and mending relationships and communicating with senior stakeholders

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: Senior

Industry: IT