Senior Technical Architect & Cloud Strategy Leader

Hippo Digital; Grimsby; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory Pension Scheme (Hippo 6%)

25 Days Holiday plus UK Public Days

Perkbox access

Private health cover

Cycle-to-work scheme

Season ticket loans

Flexible benefits scheme

Job summary

Hippo Digital is seeking a Lead Technical Architect to shape architectural vision and technical strategy across public/private sector clients. You will lead complex engagements, mentor architects, and drive pre-sales while ensuring secure, scalable, and well-engineered systems.

You will partner with C-level stakeholders, influence architectural decisions, and collaborate across strategy, design and engineering. Occasional travel to client sites and Hippo offices is expected.

Qualifications

• Senior-level Technical Architect experience leading large-scale digital transformations.
• Experience designing across major Public Cloud platforms with multi‑cloud strategies.
• Hands-on Kubernetes and advanced CI/CD tooling.
• Extensive Infrastructure-as-Code experience, especially Terraform.
• Ability to influence C-suite and executive stakeholders.
• Security, Networking and governance knowledge in cloud contexts.
• Consultancy background with pre‑sales, proposals and growth involvement.

Responsibilities

• Define and evangelise the architectural vision, standards, and best practices across the delivery practice.
• Advise senior client stakeholders, guiding long-term technical strategy.
• Lead complex engagements, providing architectural oversight and quality assurance.
• Mentor and coach teams of architects and engineers.
• Drive pre-sales and bids, shaping new opportunities.
• Contribute to thought leadership through speaking, writing, and community engagement.

Skills

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Terraform

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud-native

C-suite communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Hippo Digital is seeking a Lead Technical Architect to shape architectural vision and technical strategy across public/private sector clients. You will lead complex engagements, mentor architects, and drive pre-sales while ensuring secure, scalable, and well-engineered systems.

You will partner with C-level stakeholders, influence architectural decisions, and collaborate across strategy, design and engineering. Occasional travel to client sites and Hippo offices is expected.