Lead Technical Architect
Lead Technical Architect
Overview
Our client is a rapidly growing digital consultancy delivering large-scale transformation programmes across public and private sectors. They are seeking a Lead Technical Architect to help define technical strategy, shape architectural standards, and guide the delivery of secure, scalable and well-engineered digital platforms.
This is a senior, high-impact position with responsibilities spanning technical leadership, consultancy, mentoring, thought leadership and pre-sales support. The role requires working closely with executive-level stakeholders, guiding long-term technology direction and enabling multi-disciplinary teams to deliver robust, user-centred solutions.
The position is based in the UK, with flexibility to travel to client sites or regional offices as required.
Responsibilities
• Define and champion architectural vision, standards and best practices across the delivery function.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, including C-suite executives, on digital transformation and technical strategy.
• Lead complex, high-profile technical engagements, overseeing solution design and ensuring architectural quality.
• Mentor and support other architects and senior engineers, fostering capability growth and knowledge sharing.
• Lead technical contributions to pre-sales activity, including bid responses, technical due diligence and opportunity shaping.
• Contribute to thought leadership through public speaking, content creation and community engagement.
• Act as a technical authority, making and communicating decisions that influence multiple projects and long-term client outcomes.
• Ensure solutions are secure, scalable and aligned with modern engineering practices and industry standards.
• Support the creation and delivery of platforms underpinned by data insights, cloud-native architectures and continuous improvement principles.
Requirements
• Extensive senior-level experience as a Technical Architect delivering large-scale digital transformation programmes.
• Expert knowledge of major cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and experience designing multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud architectures.
• Deep expertise in cloud-native technologies, including containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes), serverless architectures and advanced CI/CD tooling.
• Significant hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and Terraform for complex, repeatable deployments.
• Strong background in technical leadership, mentoring and capability development.
• Experience influencing executive stakeholders and presenting complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Consultancy experience, including pre-sales work and business development support.
• Strong technical grounding in cloud security, networking and governance.
• Ability to work flexibly across different client environments, adapting approaches to meet organisational and technical contexts.
Benefits
• Salary: £67,000–£76,000 per annum.
• Contributory pension scheme.
• 25 days' annual leave plus public holidays.
• Access to a flexible benefits scheme, including:
– private health cover
– private dental cover
– extra pension contributions
– additional holidays
– wellbeing and charity contributions
• Life assurance, critical illness cover and death-in-service benefits.
• Employee perks and discount platform.
• Cycle-to-work and electric vehicle salary-sacrifice schemes.
• Season ticket loans and wellbeing support.
• Paid volunteer days.
• Relocation support available (subject to criteria).
Application Process
Our client is committed to an inclusive, accessible and equitable recruitment experience. The process may include multiple interview stages covering values, competency, technical capability and case-based assessments. Adjustments can be offered where required to support candidates throughout the process.
The organisation actively encourages applications from candidates of all backgrounds and is committed to building diverse, supportive and high-performing teams.