Senior Technical Architect - Hybrid Cloud & Data Lead

Student Loans Company; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 61,950 - 72,952; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave

Flexi-time

Civil Service pension scheme

Life insurance 4x annual salary

Enhanced sick pay and family leave

Lifestyle discounts

Job summary

Student Loans Company is seeking a Senior Technical Architect to shape and govern the organisation's technical direction, aligning with enterprise roadmap.

You will lead design assurance, work across on-prem and cloud platforms, and collaborate with business and technical teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

Hybrid model with two days in office and three from home; you’ll engage with senior stakeholders and drive innovation.

Qualifications

• Ability to govern large-scale architectures and manage architectural risk.
• Experience communicating complex concepts to senior stakeholders.
• Experience with data pipelines and multi-vendor delivery.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern technical direction across major change programmes.
• Develop technical roadmaps and lead design assurance activities.
• Collaborate with engineering, product and business teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions.
• Promote innovation by exploring new technologies and approaches.

Skills

Architecture decisions

Stakeholder communication

Collaborative teamwork

Data modelling

Cloud platforms

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Job description

Student Loans Company is seeking a Senior Technical Architect to shape and govern the organisation's technical direction, aligning with enterprise roadmap.

You will lead design assurance, work across on-prem and cloud platforms, and collaborate with business and technical teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

Hybrid model with two days in office and three from home; you’ll engage with senior stakeholders and drive innovation.