Lead Technical Design Authority for Digital Transformation

Sword Group; Aberdeen City; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Flexible working

Generous benefits package

Job summary

Sword Group is seeking an experienced Technology Architecture Lead (TDA) to steer architectural direction for major strategic projects and digital transformation initiatives across our client base. You will define architectures, governance, and integrations, ensuring alignment with business requirements and security.

The role emphasizes collaborative leadership across networks, cloud, data, and applications within complex programmes.

Qualifications

• Strong architecture experience across Networks, Voice/UC, on-premise infrastructure, Data/IM, virtualised platforms, cloud services (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS), database technologies and Applications.
• Proven ability to design integrations, interfaces and enterprise data flows.
• Experience working within M&A environments.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts for diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural direction of major strategic projects and digital transformation programmes.
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams based on business functions and portfolios.
• Ensure enterprise architecture standards and controls are embedded in all designs.
• Develop end-to-end designs including application, infrastructure, networks, data flows, APIs and integrations.
• Support and guide workstreams post-design to maintain alignment with architectures.
• Maintain focus on operational readiness, monitoring, resilience and cost ownership.
• Ensure customer business requirements are met and architectural compliance is validated for security.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Networks

Cloud services

Data flows

APIs & integrations

M&A experience

Influence & governance

Stakeholder facilitation

Job description

Sword Group is seeking an experienced Technology Architecture Lead (TDA) to steer architectural direction for major strategic projects and digital transformation initiatives across our client base. You will define architectures, governance, and integrations, ensuring alignment with business requirements and security.

The role emphasizes collaborative leadership across networks, cloud, data, and applications within complex programmes.