Job Description

Location: London (remote/hybrid working - occasional site visits)


Duration: 6 months +


Vetting: SC secuirty clearance will be required




A senior technical architect leads at the highest/enterprise level and is responsible for making sure the strategy is agreed and followed.


At this role level, you will:


Network and communicate with senior stakeholders across organisations.


Proactively seek opportunities for digital transformation. Support multiple teams, finding and using best practice and emerging technologies. Inspire other architects and help them understand how to deliver the goals of the organisation. Be responsible for governance, solving complex and high risk issues or delivering architecture design.
Skill Description


Architect for the whole context


Level: practitioner


You can:


Work to support wider organisational objectives beyond your immediate goals. Track emerging internal and external issues over time that could affect the work of teams across the organisation. Take action to solve or mitigate problems by influencing colleagues across the organisation.
Architecture communication


Level: expert


You can:


Communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels, and across organisations, using architecture communication techniques. Mediate between people in difficult architectural discussions. Gain support from business and technical stakeholders for architectural initiatives with high levels of risk, impact and complexity. Coach and support others in architecture communication.
Community collaboration


Level: practitioner


You can:


Work collaboratively in a group, actively networking with others. Adapt feedback to ensure it's effective and lasting. Use your initiative to identify problems or issues in the team dynamic and rectify them. Identify issues through Agile 'health checks' with the team, and help to stimulate the right responses.
Making architectural decisions


Level: expert


You can:


Make and guide architectural design decisions characterised by high levels of risk and complexity. Identify and address architectural risks across the organisation or wider government. Lead and evolve architectural governance and assurance. Represent architectural governance as part of wider governance, for example, legal or commercial.
Strategy design


Level: expert


You can:


Define and connect strategies or visions across the organisation or wider government. Enable the implementation of strategies or visions across the organisation or wider government, for example, by advocating for resources and removing blockers.
Technical design throughout the life cycle


Level: expert


You can:


Create technical designs characterised by high risk, impact, and complexity. Lead and guide others in creating technical designs that achieve organisational objectives. Use feedback to optimise and refine standards for technical designs throughout the life cycle.
Our client operates hybrid working, occasional client site visits will be required into London.


For further details please apply including full CV.