Technical Architect

BrightBox Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 111,000 - 114,000; Full time

Job summary

BrightBox Group seeks a Technical Architect for a remote, six-month contract to transform business requirements into scalable technical strategies. You will steer solution design, requirements management, and transitions to ensure outcomes align with strategic goals.

The role emphasizes collaboration with business architects, stakeholder workshops, and ensuring alignment with the High-Level Design across the project lifecycle, while maintaining regulatory compliance for financial services

Qualifications

• Experience translating business needs into technical strategies.
• Strong understanding of regulatory and compliance requirements in the financial services sector.
• Proven ability to drive design decisions and manage stakeholder workshops.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business architects to assess needs and propose technical solutions.
• Develop high-level design documents specifying solution requirements.
• Conduct stakeholder workshops to address design conflicts.
• Present solution strategies for approval readiness.
• Ensure alignment with the High-Level Design throughout the project lifecycle.
• Standardise technical architecture artefacts using approved templates.
• Manage compliance impacts and suggest necessary adjustments.
• Evaluate change requests and assess architecture resources for Agile and Waterfall projects.
• Develop project documentation aligning with standards.
• Manage risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Define team roles to boost project efficiency.
• Coordinate with development and infrastructure teams to meet design specifications.
• Maintain up-to-date asset records with configuration management.
• Support testing by developing and validating use cases.

Skills

Creative problem solving

Facilitation

Negotiation

Leadership

Communication

Requirements management

Tools

Azure DevOps

Kubernetes

Docker

Jenkins

Open Banking CMA/PSD2

Job description

Technical Architect

Remote

£600-£616pd (Inside IR35)

Initially a 6 month contract

Role Description

As a Technical Architect, you'll play a key role in transforming business requirements into technical strategies, steering projects from concept through to implementation. You'll deftly manage solution design, requirements management, and project transitions to ensure outcomes meet strategic goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business architects to assess needs and propose technical solutions.
• Develop detailed high-level design documents specifying solution requirements.
• Conduct stakeholder workshops to address design conflicts.
• Present solution strategies for approval readiness.
• Ensure alignment with the High-Level Design (HLD) throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ensure solutions align with strategic principles and the operating model.
• Standardise Technical Architecture artefacts using approved templates.
• Manage compliance impacts and suggest necessary adjustments.
• Evaluate change requests and assess Technical Architecture resources for Agile and Waterfall projects.
• Develop project documentation aligning with standards.
• Manage risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Define team roles to boost project efficiency.
• Coordinate with development and infrastructure teams to meet design specifications.
• Maintain up-to-date asset records with configuration management.
• Support testing by developing and validating use cases.

Skills and Experience

• Innovate solutions through creative problem-solving.
• Thorough understanding of financial services legislation.
• Strong skills in facilitation, negotiation, leadership, and communication.
• Proficiency in Office and requirements management tools.
• Expertise in Azure Cloud, financial services technologies, and government frameworks.
• Highly experienced with government-aligned frameworks, such as Open Banking under CMA and PSD2, and (url removed) standards, maintaining strict adherence to regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Skilled in integration patterns and vendor management.
• Proficiency in Kubernetes, Jenkins, Docker, Azure DevOps, and cloud technologies