Remote Technical Architect - Enterprise Transition Lead

undisclosed; Manchester; Remote; GBP 115,000 - 151,000; Full time

Job summary

undisclosed is seeking an experienced Technical Architect to ensure that technical decisions align with business and IT strategies, focusing on architecture and transition readiness.

The role involves leading discovery and due diligence, conducting architecture workshops with stakeholders, assessing integration and security, and producing artefacts to guide service acceptance. Remote work is possible, with secure access required in Poland or Manchester for client data.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience leading the design, modernisation, and delivery of scalable enterprise solutions.
• Deep technical expertise in the Microsoft ecosystem and strong leadership skills.
• Experience in managed service environments and service transition governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead application architecture discovery and due diligence for transitioned services.
• Facilitate architecture workshops with owners, SMEs, infrastructure, security and operational teams.
• Assess architecture, integrations, security controls, resilience, DR and BC capabilities.
• Produce and maintain architecture artefacts including dependency maps, risk registers and transition reports.
• Identify architectural risks, technical debt and operational dependencies impacting service transition or ongoing support.
• Define remediation actions and transition exit criteria for service acceptance.
• Collaborate with client stakeholders and internal teams to document critical dependencies and transfer knowledge.
• Support operational service design with ownership models, escalation paths and support boundaries checklists.
• Ensure architecture and operational procedures are aligned for managed service operations.
• Provide architectural governance throughout transition, onboarding, and service acceptance.

Skills

Technical leadership

Architecture governance

Stakeholder management

Workshop facilitation

Tools

Active Directory

Entra ID

Service principals

Managed identities

APIs

Job description

undisclosed is seeking an experienced Technical Architect to ensure that technical decisions align with business and IT strategies, focusing on architecture and transition readiness.

The role involves leading discovery and due diligence, conducting architecture workshops with stakeholders, assessing integration and security, and producing artefacts to guide service acceptance. Remote work is possible, with secure access required in Poland or Manchester for client data.