Principal Technical Architect

Made Tech Group; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote Working

Paid counselling

Pension

Job summary

Made Tech is seeking a Principal Technical Architect to lead and deliver strategically significant, complex client engagements across our UK portfolio. You will drive the Technical Architecture and Cyber aspects, oversee delivery, coach teams, and build trusted advisor relationships with clients in the public sector.

You will develop capability within the practice, oversee multiple concurrent client deliveries, and share best practices across engagements and industries while aligning with Made

Qualifications

• Experience delivering complex engagements in the public sector.
• Proven ability to lead technical architecture and cyber work streams.
• Ability to coach and mentor delivery teams and drive client satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with clients to understand needs and shape solutions as trusted advisor.
• Assess project performance, QA deliverables, and guide engagement outcomes.
• Act as Technical Authority to ensure alignment with best practices and knowledge sharing.
• Lead bids and pre-sales activities, shaping proposals and contributing technical depth.
• Undertake people management including performance reviews and development.
• Serve as a thought leader and represent Made Tech at industry events.

Skills

Leadership

Technical Architecture

Cloud platforms

Public sector experience

Stakeholder management

Bids and pre-sales

Vendor partnerships

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Thought leadership

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Our Principal Technical Architects are responsible for leading and delivering strategically significant, complex client engagements across our portfolio of clients.

We believe that great delivery stems from a thorough understanding of our clients and their needs, strong discipline skills and subject matter expertise, excellent leadership and a clear vision of lasting and effective change in a public sector environment. We expect our Principal Technical Architects to bring all of that and enthuse our delivery teams with the same passion.

The successful candidate will lead the Technical Architecture and Cyber aspects of our client engagements while overseeing the wider delivery within the account (or industry) when appropriate. They will coach and develop team members on their engagements providing them with detailed performance feedback, as well as monitoring overall delivery to achieve the highest levels of client satisfaction.

In addition, our Principal Technical Architects are responsible for engaging with our clients to understand their challenges and build lasting, trusted advisor relationships. They will also oversee multiple, concurrent client deliveries to help ensure quality and drive the sharing of best practice across our engagements and industries.

Our Principal Technical Architects are members of the Technical Architecture and Cyber Practice leadership team with the responsibility to develop the capability of the practice to meet business needs and to accelerate the growth of the practice, their account and the wider business.

You will be responsible for the practice and service line-specific delivery elements of your engagement/account as well as a shared ownership for the overall delivery of client outcomes. You will leverage your client and delivery insight to support the account and industry teams to identify opportunities and develop client solutions.

The right person for this role will do this by combining their technical discipline/craft experience, leadership skills and industry network with Made Tech's unparalleled experience of delivering digital services and digital transformation for the Public Sector.

Key responsibilities

• Collaborate with clients to understand their needs, provide solution advice in your role as a trusted advisor and shape solutions that leverage Made Tech's wider capabilities and credentials
• Assess project performance as a part of the billable delivery team, Quality Assure (QA) the deliverables and outcomes, and ensure client satisfaction. Coach and mentor team members as well as providing direction to enable them to achieve their engagement outcomes and to develop their careers
• Act as a Technical Authority (of your appropriate capability) to provide oversight and ensure alignment with internal and industry best practices. Ensure engagement experience is captured and used to improve standards and contribute to Made Tech knowledge
• Participate in business development activities, including bids and pre-sales within the account, industry and practice. Coach team members on their contributions and oversee the relevant technical aspects of the proposal submission
• Undertake people management responsibilities, including performance reviews and professional development of your engagement and practice colleagues
• Serve as a thought leader within Made Tech, our account engagements and the wider public sector and represent the company at industry events

Skills, knowledge and expertise

Clients

• Understanding of the issues and challenges that the public sector faces in delivering services that make the best use of data and digital capabilities, transforming legacy infrastructure, and taking an innovative and user-centric approach
• Ability to innovate and take learnings from the commercial sector, other countries and advances in technology and apply them to UK Public Sector challenges to create tangible solutions for our clients
• Experience building trusted advisor relationships with senior client stakeholders within the public sector.

Leadership

• Experience of building and leading high performing, consulting teams and creating the leveraged engagements to provide a cost-effective, profitable, successful client-facing delivery
• Leadership of bids and solution shaping to produce compelling proposals that help Made Tech win new business and grow the industry
• Experience of managing third-party partnerships and suppliers (in conjunction with Made Tech colleagues) to provide a consolidated and seamless delivery team to clients.

Practice

• Experience in delivering complex and difficult engagements that span multiple capabilities for user-facing digital and data services in the public sector
• Experience in identifying opportunities based on client needs and developing targeted solutions to progress the development of the opportunity
• Experience of working with sales professionals and commercial responsibility for strategic organisational goals.

Technical Architecture

• Demonstrable and proven experience designing software systems, with a varied set of background experiences, and an understanding of both legacy architectures and cutting-edge architecture patterns.
• A history in software engineering, having delivered code as part of a development team in the past. Ability to collaborate with software engineers to understand likely work item complexity, plan accordingly, and update plans as assumptions are challenged or changed.
• An expert-level understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure and GCP, as well as multi-cloud configurations.
• Deep expertise in enterprise systems architecture, including networking, firewalls, routers, load balancers, and security protocols, ensuring scalable, secure, and high-performance system integrations.
• Experience architecting systems across the lifecycle, building new systems, supporting them through deployment and working with stakeholders to plan for cleanly decommissioning older systems.
• A proven track record of consultancy across a variety of industries, treated by clients as a recognised technical advisor.
• Experience working within multidisciplinary teams with product, design, and technical disciplines all successfully collaborating.
• Experience of having worked directly with Cloud vendors, including as part of vendor partner programs, such as AWS APN and Azure Partners.
• Expert-level knowledge of well-architected frameworks and vendor-endorsed best practices.
• Relevant certifications at the expert / practitioner level.
• Knowledge of UK public sector technology guidance and frameworks, such as NCSC's Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) and the Technology Code of Practice (TCoP).

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Benefits

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:

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.

Pension - 7% employer matched

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' UK residency and 5 year' employment history (or back to full-time education). Ideally, no more than 30 consecutive days spent outside the UK within the last five years. 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.

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