Technical Architect
Posted 2 weeks ago by Harvey Nash
£85 Per hour
Undetermined
Hybrid
Havant, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Technical Architect/Tech Lead role in Havant involves managing workloads and supporting the Target Architecture through technical assessments and proof of concepts. The position requires overseeing the delivery of infrastructure in line with Azure best practices while understanding both long-term business strategies and short-term operational needs. Candidates should possess a solid foundation in IT and experience with agile methodologies, cloud services, and modern application architectures. This is a hybrid role with a contract duration of over six months.
Key Responsibilities:
- Prioritising and managing own workload, and others as required.
- Supporting the Target Architecture through technical impact assessments and proof of concepts.
- Creating engineering build documents based on design assumptions.
- Managing backlog planning and repositories.
- Overseeing the delivery of productionised infrastructure following Azure best practices.
Key Skills:
- Undergraduate degree in IT or a related discipline.
- Experience in applying agile methodologies.
- Knowledge of cloud services including Infrastructure, Platform, and Software as a Service.
- Familiarity with Intune Service, Entra ID, and application lifecycle management.
- Understanding of APIs, Web services, Microservices, and serverless compute.
- High-level knowledge of development processes such as DevOps, Scrum, Kanban, and lean development.
Salary (Rate): £85.00/hr
City: Havant
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Job Title: Tech Architect / Tech Lead
Location: Havant
Mode of working: Hybrid (1 day a week)
Duration: 6+ Months contract.
Job Spec:
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Responsible for prioritising and managing own workload, and others as required
- Supports the Target Architecture, through the creation of technical Impact assessments, running proof of concepts to test the design assumptions and turn this into engineering build documents.
- Support backlog planning, manage repos, oversee the delivery of productionised infrastructure following Azure best practise.
Business Knowledge
- Ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") business strategy and goals, along with short-term perspectives of situations
- Basic knowledge of information principles and policies
- Basic knowledge of financial models and budgeting
Essential Functional / Technical Skills
- Ideally an undergraduate degree in IT or a related discipline
- Experience in applying agile methodologies and supporting context, such as governance, process and culture
- Knowledge of the following technical disciplines: Cloud Services covering Infrastructure, Platform and Software (…..as a service) I Azure.
- Intune Service, including packaging and application lifecycle
- Entra ID Usage and Insights reporting, Groups and Memberships.
- Application development, DevOps, CI/CD
- Hybrid Network design
- Middleware Servers and storage
- Database management
- Operations
- Understanding of APIs, Web services, Microservices, Serverless compute and other Modern cloud native application architectures
- High level knowledge of development processes, including but not limited to DevOps, Scrum, Kanban and lean development