Technical Architect

undisclosed; Manchester; Remote; GBP 115,000 - 151,000; Full time

Job summary

undisclosed is seeking an experienced Technical Architect to ensure that technical decisions align with business and IT strategies, focusing on architecture and transition readiness.

The role involves leading discovery and due diligence, conducting architecture workshops with stakeholders, assessing integration and security, and producing artefacts to guide service acceptance. Remote work is possible, with secure access required in Poland or Manchester for client data.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience leading the design, modernisation, and delivery of scalable enterprise solutions.
• Deep technical expertise in the Microsoft ecosystem and strong leadership skills.
• Experience in managed service environments and service transition governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead application architecture discovery and due diligence for transitioned services.
• Facilitate architecture workshops with owners, SMEs, infrastructure, security and operational teams.
• Assess architecture, integrations, security controls, resilience, DR and BC capabilities.
• Produce and maintain architecture artefacts including dependency maps, risk registers and transition reports.
• Identify architectural risks, technical debt and operational dependencies impacting service transition or ongoing support.
• Define remediation actions and transition exit criteria for service acceptance.
• Collaborate with client stakeholders and internal teams to document critical dependencies and transfer knowledge.
• Support operational service design with ownership models, escalation paths and support boundaries checklists.
• Ensure architecture and operational procedures are aligned for managed service operations.
• Provide architectural governance throughout transition, onboarding, and service acceptance.

Skills

Technical leadership

Architecture governance

Stakeholder management

Workshop facilitation

Tools

Active Directory

Entra ID

Service principals

Managed identities

APIs

Job description

Duration: contract to run until 31/08/2027

Location: This role can be performed remotely. However, if access to client-sensitive data is required, it must be conducted from a secure room in Poland or Manchester.

Rate: up to £722.80 p/d Umbrellainside IR35

As a Technical Architect, you will be responsible for ensuring that technical decisions align with business and IT strategies, with a focus on the technical aspects of solutions, including:

• Leading application architecture discovery and due diligence activities for transitioned services.
• Conducting architecture workshops with application owners, SMEs, infrastructure, security, and operational teams to validate application supportability and operational readiness.
• Assessing application architecture, integrations, security controls, resilience, disaster recovery, and business continuity capabilities.
• Producing and maintaining architecture assessment artefacts including dependency maps, supportability assessments, risk registers, and transition readiness reports.
• Identifying architectural risks, technical debt and operational dependencies that may impact service transition or ongoing support.
• Defining remediation actions and transition exit criteria required for service acceptance.
• Collaborating with client stakeholders, incumbent suppliers, and internal delivery teams to facilitate knowledge transfer and document critical application dependencies.
• Supporting operational service design by documenting ownership models, escalation paths, recovery responsibilities, and support boundaries.
• Ensuring architecture documentation, support documentation and operational procedures are aligned and fit for managed service operations.
• Providing architectural governance throughout transition, onboarding, and service acceptance activities.

Skills and Experience Required

10+ years of professional experience leading the design, modernisation, and delivery of scalable enterprise solutions. This includes deep technical expertise in the Microsoft ecosystem, familiarity with industry standards, and strong leadership and stakeholder management skills.

Key competencies for this role include:

• Experience leading application transition, onboarding, or service transformation activities within managed service environments.
• Strong understanding of application supportability, operational readiness, and service acceptance criteria.
• Experience assessing and documenting application integrations, APIs, authentication mechanisms, service accounts, certificates, and secrets management.
• Knowledge of identity and access management technologies including Active Directory, Entra ID, service principals and managed identities.
• Experience with resilience, disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity assessments.
• Strong understanding of service management concepts including Incident, Problem, Change and Major Incident Management.
• Experience facilitating architecture workshops and engaging with technical and business stakeholders to gather and validate information.
• Ability to identify and manage technical debt, operational risks, and architectural dependencies.
• Experience producing architecture assessment reports, transition plans, assumption logs, and risk registers.

Soft Skills

• Ability to facilitate workshops and drive consensus across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Strong analytical and investigative skills with the ability to identify gaps in documentation and operational knowledge.
• Comfortable working in ambiguous environments and building architecture artefacts from incomplete information.
• Ability to challenge assumptions constructively and drive risk-based decision making.
• Strong knowledge transfer and stakeholder engagement skills.

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!