Senior Technical Architect

Job Title: Senior Technical Architect
Location: Hybrid (3 days/week on site) - choice of locations: Leeds or Newcastle
Contract Duration: 12 Months
Daily Rate: £800/day(Umbrella - Maximum)
IR35 Status: Inside IR35

Job Description:

As a Senior Technical Architect you will, working with engineering teams, be responsible for supporting the design, development, delivery and maintenance of IT products and services. This will typically be for a project or strand of a programme.

As a Senior Technical Architect you have deep knowledge in your field and help to grow the technical architecture community, helping to support the community and build high quality products and services.

As a Senior Technical Architect you will have, and share your knowledge and experience - blending technical knowledge, architecture and development skills. In addition, you will bring a breadth of understanding across a range of technical domains and depth of experience in at least one domain or specialism.

• Lead, deliver and support technical design of a product or part of a shared platform to meet user needs and business objectives.
• Lead on ensuring high quality of technical design, and adherence to enterprise architecture principles and roadmaps
• Build relationships and work collaboratively with Digital professions in agile delivery teams to create VFM solution designs that meet user needs
• Support development of the Architecture practice by sharing best practice and reference architectures to ensure consistency and coherence of architecture design.
• Engage with Enterprise Architects, Domain Architects, Lead Solution Architects and engineering teams to implement the solutions according to agreed and approved architecture designs.
• Deliver product solutions and be accountable for product architecture in alignment with engineering.
• Identify, capture, share and iterate architecture patterns to ensure consistent and coherent architecture design, contributing to the Enterprise Architecture.
• Implement architecture patterns creating reference architectures as real-world working examples of successful architecture design.
• Create solution options and recommendations - during project discovery and inception phases to drive decision making on best solution design.
• Make technology choices for products in conjunction with the enterprise architecture blueprint, contributing to the update of technology policies where appropriate.
• Contribute to building an inclusive digital culture within the department.

Technical Specialisms

• Architecture & Design Methods
• Desirable skills to support Technical Breadth and Systems Integration capabilities - Level 3
• ArchiMate and UML architecture/design and modelling techniques, tools and standards - Level 3
• Agile/DevOps delivery methodologies and best practice - Level 3
• Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) delivery methodologies, tools and best practice - level 3
• Microservice and API-led architecture and integration design tools, techniques and best practice - level 3
• WebServices, SOA, BPEL and ESB architecture and integration design tools, techniques and best practice -Level 3
• WebServices, SOA, BPEL and ESB architecture and integration design tools, techniques and best practice - Level 3

Programme & Project Management

• Shaping and supporting technology initiatives, projects, programmes and portfolios - Level 1
• Core Technology Knowledge 
• Software architecture, frameworks, technologies, tools and best practice -Level 2
• Application and integration architecture, frameworks, technologies, tools and best practice - Level 2
• Software architecture, frameworks, technologies, tools and best practice - Level 2
• Information and data architecture, frameworks, technologies, tools and best practice - Level 2
• Cloud and infrastructure architecture, frameworks, technologies, tools and best practice - Level 2

Cloud & Infrastructure Architecture

• Amazon Web Service (AWS) technologies, cloud hosting and networking design patterns, tools and best practice - Level 3
• Microsoft Azure technologies, cloud hosting and networking design patterns, tools and best practice - Level 3
• Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud-based application deployment technologies, design patterns, tools and best practice - Level 3
• Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Serverless cloud-based application deployment technologies, design patterns, tools and best practice - Level 3
• Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud-based application deployment technologies, design patterns, tools and best practice - Level 3

Security Architecture

• Security threat trends, analysis and protection technologies, tools and best practice
• Includes: software exploits/SQL injection/cross-site Scripting/remote file inclusion/stolen credentials/'watering hole' attacks/DDOS/malware/phishing/ransomware - Level 3
• Secure communication and encryption/cryptographic technologies, tools and best practice
• Includes: IPSec/Kerberos/TLS/SSL - Level 3
• Identification, authentication and Single Sign-On(SSO) technologies, tools and best practice
• Includes: OpenID/Oauth 2.0/OIDC/XACML/OATH reference architecture/Kerberos/SAML/WS-Security/RACF - Level 3
• Cybersecurity technologies, tools and best practice - Level 3

Disability Confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, CLIENT guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Armed Forces Covenant

CLIENT is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses/partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates/military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.