Remote Technical Lead: Architecture & Security Strategy

Hamilton Barnes; Glasgow; Remote; GBP 74,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Hamilton Barnes invites applications for the role of Technical Lead to manage a team of Technical Service Architects, define governance, and provide trusted technical guidance to strategic customers. The role emphasizes leadership, architecture standards, and security resilience across delivery engagements.

The successful candidate will shape technical roadmaps, contribute to service design, and align offerings with client IT leadership, while maintaining a forward view of required skills within

Qualifications

• Proven technical leadership within an IT consultancy, MSP or customer-facing environment.
• Experience coaching and developing senior technical professionals.
• Broad knowledge across cloud, infrastructure, M365, identity, digital workplace, cyber security, managed services.
• Strong Azure, M365 and Entra ID/AD knowledge.
• Strong grounding in Zero Trust, Defender/Sentinel, NCSC, NIST, ISO 27001.
• ITIL v4 Foundation; senior MS certs (SC-100, MS-102, AZ-305) desirable.
• Desirable: team/capability scaling experience, IaC (PowerShell/Bicep/Terraform), TOGAF/CISSP

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop Technical Service Architects
• Own technical standards, reference architectures and design governance
• Provide technical assurance security, compliance, resilience, supportability
• Oversee customer technical roadmaps and service improvement plans
• Develop strategic service offerings from concept to delivery
• Act as senior technical advisor to strategic customers and IT leadership
• Provide technical input to bids, proposals and service design
• Maintain forward view of skills/capability needs across the practice

Skills

Technical leadership

Coaching senior professionals

Cloud and security knowledge

Azure/M365/Entra ID

Zero Trust / NIST / ISO 27001

Education

ITIL v4 Foundation

SC-100

MS-102

AZ-305

Tools

PowerShell

Bicep

Terraform

Job description

Hamilton Barnes invites applications for the role of Technical Lead to manage a team of Technical Service Architects, define governance, and provide trusted technical guidance to strategic customers. The role emphasizes leadership, architecture standards, and security resilience across delivery engagements.

The successful candidate will shape technical roadmaps, contribute to service design, and align offerings with client IT leadership, while maintaining a forward view of required skills within