Duration - To September 2024 (extendable)

Rates - TBC/OUTSIDE of IR35 contract

Live DV Clearance required

The role:

The Senior Technical Architect will have commercial hyperscale cloud experience whose significant experience is based on AWS. They will have a strong understanding of zero trust concepts and principles which must be demonstrable.

• As the senior technical architect, you will be working on a large and complex hybrid cloud development programme and will:
  • Define technical strategy and be central to assuring services.
  • Regularly collaborate and find agreement with senior stakeholders, providing direction and challenge. o Be proactive in identifying problems and translating these into non-technical descriptions that can be widely understood.
  • Mentor and coach junior colleagues.

Responsibilities and required experience:

The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the following skills:

• Turning business problems into technical design:
  • Design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity.
  • Work across multiple services or a single large or complicated services.
• Communicating between the technical and non-technical (technical architect):
  • Identify the needs of business and technical stakeholders. o Effectively manage stakeholder expectations.
  • Demonstrate excellent communication skills and can manage difficult conversations or negotiations.
• Governance and assurance:
  • Evolve and define the organisation's governance.
  • Take responsibility for working with and supporting other staff in wider governance.
  • Assure services across sets of services.
  • Use the organisation's tools, standards, guardrails and principles to effectively govern delivery.
• Making and guiding decisions:
  • Make decisions characterised by managed levels of risk and complexity and recommend decisions as risk and complexity increase.
  • Resolve technical disputes between wider peers and indirect stakeholders, considering all views and opinions.
• Strategy:
  • Apply strategy, using and challenging the organisation's patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements.
  • Provide guidance.

• Understanding the whole context:
  • Understand trends and practices outside your team and how these will impact your work.
  • See how your work fits into the broader strategy and historical context.
  • Consider the patterns and interactions on a larger scale.

Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level Developed Vetting clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take up to a minimum 6 months for this level of security clearance. Adecco Public Sector welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.