Senior Technical Architect – Hybrid (Govt/National Security)

TXP; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 140,000 - 160,000; Part time

Job summary

TXP is seeking an experienced Technical Architect to support a major government organisation in Milton Keynes under a 6-month contract. Day rate £591.50 per day (Inside IR35).

Hybrid pattern: 3 days per week onsite. You will act as the technical authority across the environment, providing architecture leadership, governance, design oversight and stakeholder engagement for a critical national security product.

Qualifications

• Experience engaging with customers, business stakeholders and senior technical teams.
• Experience operating within an ITIL-based environment.
• Experience working with software vendors and development teams to enhance and improve software solutions.
• Proven experience collaborating with engineering teams to deliver customer and business outcomes.
• Experience working within complex, secure or government environments.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrable experience producing technical designs, impact assessments and governance artefacts.

Responsibilities

• Act as the Technical Architect for key national security and government capability programmes.
• Build and maintain relationships with customers and stakeholders across government departments.
• Work closely with engineering and development teams to support the delivery of technical solutions.
• Lead customer and stakeholder workshops, translating business requirements into technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and 4th line technical oversight for complex customer issues.
• Produce and maintain high-level and low-level solution designs.
• Conduct impact assessments for functional, technical, capability and security changes.
• Review, analyse and approve project requests and technology changes.
• Ensure architectural compliance with organisational standards, principles, patterns and best practices.
• Support governance forums, architecture reviews and CTO Office activities.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and provide recommendations on technical options, benefits and costs.
• Work collaboratively across technical and business teams to deliver customer-focused outcomes.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Communication

Workshop facilitation

Governance

Architectural thinking

Independent work

Problem solving

Security requirements

Tools

Microsoft Server

Active Directory

SQL Server

IIS

Azure

Azure Virtual Desktop

Azure SQL Managed Instance

Job description

TXP is seeking an experienced Technical Architect to support a major government organisation in Milton Keynes under a 6-month contract. Day rate £591.50 per day (Inside IR35).

Hybrid pattern: 3 days per week onsite. You will act as the technical authority across the environment, providing architecture leadership, governance, design oversight and stakeholder engagement for a critical national security product.