Senior Technical Architect (Software) - HM Land Registry - SEO

Manchester Digital; Manchester; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

HM Land Registry seeks a Senior Technical Architect to shape and guide technology across the organisation. You will translate strategy into practical, scalable solutions and provide architectural leadership across delivery teams, ensuring security, legal and regulatory compliance throughout the lifecycle.

You will collaborate with multiple agile teams, influence senior stakeholders, and maintain architectural integrity while driving continuous improvement and value delivery.

Qualifications

• Broad understanding of technologies, tools and processes.
• Emerging technologies and industry developments awareness.
• Ability to lead diverse stakeholder groups to technical solutions.
• Experience of managing change affecting people, processes, technology and information.
• Translate stakeholder needs into effective architectural solutions.
• Balance risk and complexity in problem solving.
• End-to-end solution delivery and lifecycle management.
• Ensure compliance with security, legal and regulatory requirements.
• Develop or support technical strategies, principles, patterns and standards.

Responsibilities

• Align architectural work with other architects and technical professionals.
• Track emerging issues, roadmaps, patterns and technologies to identify opportunities and risks.
• Understand how different teams contribute to delivering organisational outcomes and change.
• Lead communication on complex, high-risk architectural issues.
• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Engage and influence senior stakeholders across the organisation.
• Adapt communication styles to suit different audiences.
• Advocate for teams and architectural approaches.
• Manage stakeholder expectations effectively.
• Build relationships across teams and promote collaborative problem-solving.
• Identify and address team challenges and dynamics through feedback and agile health checks.
• Make sound architectural design decisions in varying risk environments.
• Identify and manage business, data and security risks.
• Contribute to governance and assurance processes.

Skills

Architectural leadership

Stakeholder management

Security & regulatory compliance

Strategic design

Technical communication

Agile collaboration

Job description

Location

Birkenhead, North West England, CH41 6DU : Coventry, West Midlands (England), CV1 2WT : Durham, North East England, DH1 5TR : Weymouth, South West England, DT4 9TT : Gloucester, South West England, GL1 1DQ : Nottingham, East Midlands (England), NG2 1AW : Plymouth, South West England, PL6 5WS

About The Job

Job summary. Help shape the future of HM Land Registry's technology landscape.

Job Description

As a Senior Technical Architect, you will play a pivotal role in designing and guiding technology solutions that support HMLR's strategic ambitions. Working across a complex and evolving technology environment, you will help ensure that technology investments deliver long-term value, meet business needs and are aligned with organisational objectives. You will provide architectural leadership, translating business strategy into practical technical solutions while balancing innovation, risk, cost and operational sustainability.

As a Senior Technical Architect, you will work closely with delivery teams, architects, engineers and senior stakeholders to develop and deliver end-to-end technology solutions. You will take a broad, enterprise-wide view of the organisation's technology estate, assessing the impact of change and ensuring solutions operate effectively within the wider ecosystem. You will provide technical leadership throughout the solution lifecycle, from initial concept through to delivery and ongoing support, solving complex problems and providing clarity in uncertain environments.

You will collaborate with multiple agile teams, influence technical decision-making, build relationships with suppliers and government partners, and ensure solutions comply with security, legal and regulatory requirements. The role requires a strong understanding of software development, integration and emerging technologies, together with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to a wide range of stakeholders and proactively identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

The role aligns to the Senior Technical Architect capability framework definition available at: https://ddat-capability-framework.service.gov.uk/role/technical-architect#senior-technical-architect

Person specification

Essential Criteria

Experience

• Broad understanding and practical application of a wide range of technologies, tools and processes.
• Experience of keeping abreast of emerging technologies, trends and industry developments.
• Ability to lead and influence diverse stakeholder groups to achieve agreement on technical solutions.
• Experience of managing change and assessing its impact on people, processes, technology and information.
• Ability to understand stakeholder needs and translate them into effective architectural solutions.
• Experience of solving complex problems while balancing risk and complexity.
• Strong analytical skills, including structured problem decomposition and modelling techniques.
• Accountability for end-to-end solution delivery and ongoing lifecycle management.
• Experience of ensuring compliance with security, legal and regulatory requirements.
• Experience of developing or supporting technical strategies, principles, patterns and standards.

Architect for the Whole Context

• Align architectural work with other architects and technical professionals.
• Track emerging issues, strategies, roadmaps, patterns and technologies to identify opportunities and risks.
• Understand how different teams contribute to delivering organisational outcomes and change.

Architecture Communication

• Lead communication on complex, sensitive or high-risk architectural issues.
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Engage and influence senior stakeholders across the organisation.
• Adapt communication styles to suit different audiences.
• Advocate for teams and architectural approaches.
• Manage stakeholder expectations effectively.

Community Collaboration

• Build effective relationships and networks across teams.
• Collaborate constructively and encourage collective problem-solving.
• Identify and address team challenges and dynamics proactively.
• Use feedback and Agile health checks to improve team performance and outcomes.

Making Architectural Decisions

• Make sound architectural design decisions in environments with varying levels of risk and complexity.
• Identify and manage business, data and security risks.
• Contribute to governance and assurance processes to support effective decision-making.

Strategy Design

• Support the development and implementation of technical strategies and roadmaps.
• Challenge assumptions and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Apply architectural principles, patterns and standards appropriately.
• Ensure solutions align with organisational objectives.

Technical Design Throughout the Lifecycle

• Produce technical designs of medium complexity and risk.
• Maintain architectural integrity and quality throughout delivery.
• Refine and optimise designs based on feedback and changing requirements.