Senior Technical Architect - HMRC - G7

Onyx-Conseil; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy firm in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Technical Architect to provide hands-on technical leadership within Cloud product teams. You'll collaborate with engineers and product owners to design robust cloud-native solutions while ensuring best practices in CI/CD and security are followed. Your expertise will mentor teams and drive improvements in system reliability and performance. This role offers the opportunity to work directly within product teams to influence technical direction and solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience in cloud architecture and cloud-native solutions.
• Strong ability to lead and mentor engineering teams.
• Knowledge of CI/CD, security practices, and DNS.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers and product managers to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Ensure best practices are followed in areas such as CI/CD, security, secrets management.
• Provide hands-on support and mentorship to engineering teams.
• Drive continuous improvement in system reliability, performance, and security.
• Participate in architecture reviews and technical workshops.

Job description

As a Senior Technical Architect within HMRC’s Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) you will be a key member of one or more Cloud product teams, providing hands‑on technical leadership and architectural guidance. Unlike traditional centralised architecture roles, you will be embedded directly within the product teams, working closely with engineers, product owners, and stakeholders to design, build, and evolve robust cloud‑native solutions. Your expertise will help shape the technical direction of our products, ensuring they are secure, scalable, and maintainable.

Main duties

• Collaborate with engineers and product managers to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Ensure best practices are followed in areas such as CI/CD, security, secrets management, DNS, and machine image pipelines.
• Provide hands‑on support and mentorship to engineering teams, helping to resolve complex technical challenges.
• Drive continuous improvement in system reliability, performance, and security.
• Participate in architecture reviews, and technical workshops.

Maintain up‑to‑date knowledge of emerging cloud technologies and industry trends.