Technical Architect – Business Solutions

Metropolitan Police; Greater London; On-site; GBP 71,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

Metropolitan Police seeks a Technical Architect to lead the design, governance and implementation of technical solutions across the Business Solutions portfolio at Kilburn. The role focuses on Oracle Cloud technologies, OCI, OIC and Fusion Applications, with responsibility for ensuring secure, scalable and performant architectures.

You will provide technical leadership, define standards, review designs and guide complex project delivery, driving cloud adoption and integration across enterprise

Qualifications

• Design, governance and implementation of technical solutions for the Business Solutions portfolio.
• Deep technical expertise across Oracle Cloud technologies including OCI, OIC and Fusion Applications.
• Define technical standards and review solution designs to ensure security, scalability and performance.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end technical architecture solutions supporting Oracle Fusion and Business Services platforms.
• Provide assurance on 3rd party integration designs, ensuring they meet MET standards.
• Produce and maintain technical architecture artefacts, standards, patterns and design documentation.
• Ensure non-functional requirements including security, scalability, resilience, availability and performance are met.
• Provide technical oversight through project lifecycles from discovery to implementation and support.
• Lead the design and governance of enterprise integrations using Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC).
• Develop integration patterns and standards across SaaS, cloud and on-premise services.
• Work with teams and suppliers to troubleshoot and optimise integration solutions.

Job description

Job Title: Technical Architect – Business Solutions

Salary: The starting salary is £71,121, which includes allowances totalling £3,009.

The salary is broken down as £68,112 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £72,953. Plus, a location allowance of £2,009 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.

Location: Kilburn

The role is responsible for providing technical architecture leadership across the Business Solutions portfolio and supporting the delivery of the Metropolitan Police Service's strategic technology transformation agenda.

Digital & Innovation (D&I) is at the forefront of transforming the Metropolitan Police Service, bringing together technology, data, analytics, innovation and transformation capability to help deliver a safer London and drive the ambitions of A New Met for London.

By uniting technology delivery, live service operations, cyber security, data and analytics, organisational learning and transformation expertise, D&I enables the Met to modernise services, improve operational efficiency and deliver value through technology-enabled change.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing business group responsible for the delivery and continual improvement of critical enterprise platforms supporting Human Resources, Finance, Commercial, Learning & Development, Property and Corporate Services functions.

Job Purpose

The Technical Architect is responsible for the design, governance and implementation of technical solutions supporting the Business Solutions application portfolio. Working under the strategic direction of the Solution Architect, the role translates architectural vision into practical, scalable and supportable technical solutions that deliver business outcomes.

The post holder will provide deep technical expertise across Oracle Cloud technologies, integrations, infrastructure, platform services and application architecture. They will play a lead role in designing and assuring solutions that leverage Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), Oracle Fusion Applications and associated cloud technologies.

The role will be responsible for defining technical standards, reviewing solution designs, supporting complex project delivery and ensuring effective integration between enterprise applications and technology platforms. The post holder will also identify opportunities to improve performance, increase automation, simplify architectural complexity and maximise value from cloud technologies.

Key Role Responsibilities

Technical Architecture & Solution Design

• Design end-to-end technical architecture solutions supporting Oracle Fusion and Business Services platforms.
• Provide assurance on 3rd party integration designs, ensuring they meet the MET standards.
• Produce and maintain technical architecture artefacts, standards, patterns and design documentation.
• Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements including security, scalability, resilience, availability and performance.
• Provide technical oversight throughout project lifecycles from discovery through to implementation and support.
• Support the Solution Architect in defining and maintaining target-state architecture.
• Design and govern solutions deployed within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
• Provide expertise across OCI networking, security, identity management, compute, storage and platform services.
• Ensure cloud environments are designed in accordance with architectural standards, security requirements and operational best practice.
• Support cloud adoption and optimisation initiatives across the Business Solutions portfolio.
• Drive the use of cloud-native services and automation capabilities wherever appropriate.
• Lead the design and assurance of enterprise integrations using Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC).
• Develop integration patterns and standards across SaaS, cloud and on-premise services.
• Ensure reliable, secure and scalable integration between Oracle Fusion and wider enterprise systems.
• Support API strategy, event-driven architectures and middleware technologies.
• Work with technical teams and suppliers to troubleshoot and optimise integration solutions.

Engineering & Technical Governance

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to development, support and engineering teams.
• Review technical designs and support architecture governance processes.
• Ensure compliance with technical standards, security policies and operational requirements.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks throughout programme and project delivery.
• Support continuous improvement of development and architecture practices.