Lead Technical Architect

Lead Technical Architect is required within the digital team

12 months contract

Hybrid in Glasgow or alternative UK office London, midlands etc with occasional travel to the Glasgow office to facilitate close collaboration with them. Expected to be roughly one trip of 2-3 days per month, and travel and accommodation expenses will be covered.

SC Clearance

The role will initially be part of a small discovery team exploring how to incrementally replace a legacy case management systems with digital services which meet the Government Service Standard.

The discovery team’s work will lay the foundation for Digital’s strategy for the next few years, and will include understanding the current landscape, identifying and analysing a range of possible replacement approaches, and recommending a path forward. This role will then be the technical lead on the replacement work as it gets under way.

Key Responsibilities:

Work with the Principal Technical Architect to define, maintain and own the technical strategy and roadmap for services of various sizes and complexity, defining how they integrate with other services and teams, and how they evolve over time

Guide technical teams, influence technical choices and seek out opportunities for digital transformation

Undertake structured evaluation of technical concepts, translating this into technical designs that describe a solution

Align your team's work with departmental and wider government technology strategy

Look for opportunities to collaborate and reuse common components, communicating with both technical and non-technical people

Assure other services and system quality, ensuring the technical work fits into the broader strategy for the agency

Collaborate and find agreement with senior stakeholders, providing both technical and non-technical direction and challenge

Mentor, coach, and line manage senior and mid level technical architects

Support hiring, taking part in recruitment for both Technical Architects and other professions such as Software Developers

Tech stack required

Programming languages such as TypeScript/Node

AWS using infrastructure as code with Terraform

Container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes

Public GitHub repositories for our work

Modern development practices such as domain-driven design, test-driven development, continuous integration and continuous delivery

Mac laptops

plus other tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, AppInsights, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, and more

Legacy systems use Oracle Database, WebLogic & Forms, and Tungsten TotalAgility & SQL Server

Experience in a technical/solution architecture role within multi-disciplinary teams

Apply asap for further discussion