(SC cleared) Technical Architect

Methods Analytics is currently recruiting for a Technical Architect to join our team on a permanent basis. This role will be remote but require flexibility to travel to client sites, and our offices in London, Sheffield and Bristol.

Salary range - £70,000 to £90,000

The Technical Architect will be:

• Specialising in cloud platforms, applications, data and supporting infrastructure
• Working with other members of the delivery team across a mix of large and small projects and be responsible for translating data into valuable insights that inform decisions for small to large transformation projects and programmes
• Translating business problems into technical designs, creating optimal designs through iterative processes, aligning user needs with organisational objectives and system requirements
• Advocating the business benefit of data standards, championing and governing those standards across projects and the organisation.
• Able to recognise and exploit business opportunities to ensure efficient and effective performance of organisations, developing and setting architecture standards for an organisation
• Demonstrating an overall perspective on business issues, events and activities, and an understanding of their wider implications and long-term impact. This will include determining patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements
• Making and guiding effective decisions, explaining clearly how the decision has been reached with the ability to understand and resolve technical disputes across varying levels of complexity and risk.
• Communicating effectively across organisational, technical and political boundaries to understand the context and how to make complex and technical information and language simple and accessible for non-technical audiences.
• Understanding of how to expose data from systems (for example, through APIs), link data from multiple systems and deliver streaming services.
• Ensuring that risks associated with deployment are adequately understood and documented.

Requirements

• Minimum certification requirements of AZ900 and 104, with 305 being desirable
• Exposure to high performing, low latency or large volume data systems (ie 1 billion+ records, terabyte size database)
• You can make and guide effective decisions, explaining clearly how the decision has been reached.
• You must have the ability to understand and resolve technical disputes across varying levels of complexity and risk.
• Design or operation of a range of Azure or AWS hosted Analytics applications, databases or services, including Machine Learning
• Worked as part of multi-disciplinary project team. For example, collaboration with UR/UX

Security Clearance:

UKSV (United Kingdom Security Vetting) clearance is required for this role, with Security Check (SC) as the minimum standard