Lead Technical Architect

Made Tech Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days Holiday

Flexible Working Hours

Flexible Parental Leave

Remote Working

Paid counselling

Cycle to work

Smart Tech scheme

Benefits allowance

Job summary

Made Tech is seeking a Lead Technical Architect to drive the growth of our architecture capability, support client deliveries and provide technical assurance across engineering teams. You will shape, design and deliver predominantly cloud-based architectures in collaboration with client stakeholders and delivery teams.

You will lead technical strategy, offer architectural oversight, and help clients evolve their technology direction while identifying opportunities for expansion within existing

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead architectural design of cloud-based public services.
• Experience shaping technical strategy with client stakeholders.
• Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements.
• Strong collaboration across multidisciplinary delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Ensure delivery of high quality technical outcomes for clients.
• Align work with government technology strategy and drive architectural decisions.
• Design and evolve public services and their interactions over time.
• Ensure security and operability requirements in cloud environments.
• Influence decision makers and identify opportunities for transformation.
• Facilitate workshops using lean and agile techniques with clients and teams.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance to delivery teams.

Skills

Strategic influence

Client engagement

Architectural leadership

Cloud architecture

Stakeholder management

Lean & Agile facilitation

Technical oversight

Job description

Based within the Cloud & Engineering Practice, the Lead Technical Architect role is accountable for driving the growth of our architecture capability while supporting client deliveries and providing technical assurance to our engineering teams.

We’re looking for technical leaders who can work closely with client stakeholders and our delivery teams to help shape, design and deliver predominantly cloud-based architectures. They will also provide architecture oversight and help clients to develop and evolve their technical strategy.

People in this role primarily work consultatively and are expected to build relationships with clients across our industry verticals, ranging from Central Government to Health and Local Government. Identification of growth opportunities for existing accounts and new clients is also a key responsibility.

Key responsibilities

Responsible for helping to ensure the successful delivery of high quality technical outcomes for our clients:

• Taking responsibility for understanding client requirements and communicating between technical teams and the business.
• Align your team’s work with department and government technology strategy, participating in strategic technical decisions and challenging previous decisions where needed.
• Be responsible for technical design and development of public services of various sizes, how they interact with their surroundings (including other projects, teams and organisations), and how they evolve over time.
• Be responsible for ensuring non functional requirements are identified and delivered, particularly relating to security and operability in the cloud.
• Challenge entrenched practices and influence decision makers, and look for deeper underlying problems to solve, and larger opportunities for digital transformation.
• Facilitate workshops and other collaborative activities leveraging lean and agile techniques with both your team and the client to ensure the service architecture meets user needs and enables business goals.
• Provide technical leadership to our delivery teams and strategic architectural advice to clients.

Responsible for driving growth:

• Shape and deliver opportunities on client accounts by providing expert engagement as a trusted technical leader.
• Provide pre-sales support on bids by calling on technical experience to confidently address stated client needs.
• Shaping and drafting responses and supporting proposal presentations to existing or new clients to help add value and credibility and maximise successful bid outcomes.
• Provide thought leadership through supporting marketing initiatives, writing blog posts, speaking at events, etc.
• Working with and in account teams to build strong client relationships and find additional growth opportunities.

Responsible for providing support to Made Tech colleagues and promoting better understanding and integration of technical architecture across Made Tech:

• Leading and championing the practice across Made Tech through community of practice involvement and by coaching and mentoring more junior team members.
• Presenting learnings to the Software Engineering Community of Practice.
• Supporting and briefing our client partners to help them better understand our technical propositions with the goal of identifying additional opportunities.
• Line management of more junior colleagues to support their development, pursuit of career goals and management of their overall performance.
• Help build and maintain a diverse, inclusive culture across the development community, growing awareness, inclusivity, and balance.

Responsible for assuring the quality of technical deliveries:

• When not actively working with clients, being available to delivery teams to provide architecture support and guidance.
• Reviewing architecture quality at various checkpoints throughout a delivery’s lifecycle.

Skills, knowledge and expertise

Prioritise a positive employee experience: we invest in ensuring we maintain a positive employee experience. Where constraints or controls are necessary ensure these do not overly encumber people delivering for our clients, where policies are required ensure these are lightweight, jargon free, relevant and “just enough”.

Align to commercial goals: we understand and align improvements to the commercial goals of the business. Ensure all prioritised activities can be related back to the commercial benefit they will deliver. Facilitate commercial growth wherever possible.

Value close collaboration: we collaborate and work with colleagues across the business in a positive and supportive way. Help foster a culture of continuous improvement by offering both constructive and reinforcing feedback. Be part of the solution. Empower teams to deliver outcomes.

Take a pragmatic approach: we appreciate that as a rapidly growing business we sometimes need to make uncomfortable tradeoffs. We balance risk and reward appropriately, and seek to make the right decisions to enable the business to achieve its long‑term vision.

Support in applying

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We believe we can use tech to make public services better. We also believe this can happen best when our own team represents the society that actually uses the services we work on. We’re collectively continuing to grow a culture that is happy, healthy, safe and inspiring for people of all backgrounds and experiences, so we encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply for roles with us.

When you apply, we’ll put you in touch with a talent partner who can help with any needs or adjustments we may need to make to help with your application. This includes alternative formats for documents, the time allotted for interviews and any other needs. We also welcome any feedback on how we can improve the experience for future candidates.

Life at Made Tech

We’re committed to building a happy, inclusive and diverse workforce. You can get a sense of what it’s like working here from our blog, where we talk about mental health, communities of practice and neurodiversity (as well as our client work and best practice).

Like many organisations, we use Slack to chat to each other. The Slack groups that have formed give an idea of the diversity within Made Tech. If you’d like to speak to someone from one of these groups about their experience as an employee, let your recruitment agent or Made Tech Talent Specialist know.

The groups are:

• disability
• lgbtqiaplus-allies-and-activists
• women-in-tech

We are always listening to our growing teams and evolving the benefits available to our people. As we scale, as do our benefits and we are scaling quickly. We've recently introduced a flexible benefit platform which includes a Smart Tech scheme, Cycle to work scheme, and an individual benefits allowance which you can invest in a Health care cash plan or Pension plan. We’re also big on connection and have an optional social and wellbeing calendar of events for all employees to join should they choose to.

Here are some of our most popular benefits listed below:

• 30 days Holiday - we offer 30 days of paid annual leave
• Flexible Working Hours - we are flexible with what hours you work
• Flexible Parental Leave - we offer flexible parental leave options
• Remote Working - we offer part time remote working for all our staff
• Paid counselling - we offer paid counselling as well as financial and legal advice

An increasing number of our customers are specifying a minimum of SC (security check) clearance in order to work on their projects. As a result, we're looking for all successful candidates for this role to have eligibility. Eligibility for SC requires 5 years' continuous UK residency and 5 year' employment history (or back to full-time education). Please note that if at any point during the interview process it is apparent that you may not be eligible for SC, we won't be able to progress your application and we will contact you to let you know why.