Technical Architect

London Contract 692.70- 861 per day

We're currently seeking an accomplished and highly ambitious technical architecture professional to work with our exceptional client, a world class brand in a secure environment to drive major business transformation, process and technical change across this complex organisation which will run well into 2026.

These contract roles will require you to have a valid and active DV security clearance prior to assignment. Opportunities are available in London.

These roles are conducted in an environment that is far from ordinary, therefore, we're not looking for ordinary. You'll have the potential to work effectively across a large number of teams and a diverse range of projects within our technology community. You will be encouraged and assisted to enhance your skills on unique projects.

You will be able to demonstrate your enthusiasm and experience of working in small, diverse, multi-disciplinary teams to deliver flexible and outstanding solutions for internal and external senior stakeholders. Exceptional stakeholder management skills are a must. Highly analytical, flexible and persuasive, with first-class influencing skills, you'll possess the ability to build effective relationships and drive high impact, lasting change across the organisation. You need to have an understanding of Agile principals and the impact of technical changes on business requirements as well as familiarity with ITIL/Prince/PROSCI. Our Technical Architects are technical leaders able to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders. They work very closely with product teams, delivering new and exciting capabilities, as well as working with senior stakeholders to make decisions on risk and technology strategy.

Your experience:

As an exceptional technical professional, you will have:

You will be a passionate leader in the technology world who is excited to take the initiative, be creative and drive business change.

• You are deeply technical and can demonstrate credibility to technical teams as well as non-technical stakeholders.
• You have experience in turning business problems into technical designs including designing complex solutions and evaluating the merit of different technical/commercial options and approaches.
• You have worked with teams to ensure that their system architectures are robust, scalable, and secure, with appropriate system design and integration points/APIs, to deliver a high-quality user
• You will have experience developing technology roadmaps with empowered product teams and ensuring their delivery and that they meet the needs of the business.
• You will have strong communication skills to explain the impact of your work to the business and technical community using high quality architectural artefacts to help you.
• You have a passion for continuous learning and take steps to ensure you can identify and seize opportunities presented by the changing technology landscape.
• You should have experience of leading successful product deliveries using methodologies such as Agile.
• You understand, or have experienced of building, distributed event-driven
• You have experience in Accelerate metrics, focusing on pace of delivery and quality.
• Experience using modern cloud technologies and services g., AWS or Azure
• Using technical patterns such as SOA, Observability, APIs, Web Services (SOAP/RESTful), Micro Services, Data Lakehouse, Kubernetes, DevSecOps and Containerization.

In return:

You'll be joining an ambitious, high-level team of like-minded and highly skilled individuals, all focused on delivering the best possible outcome.

We are focused on bringing and nurturing the best talent into our team, recruiting widely to ensure we are inclusive and providing a supportive and safe environment where people can bring their authentic selves to work to be able to deliver at their best.

This is literally a once in a lifetime opportunity to step away from the mundane and forge your own path in a totally new direction working on life and culture changing projects.

If you're ready for a challenge like no other, apply today.

These roles are available on 24-month contracts (inside IR35).

Guidant Global is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.