Technical Architect - Business Solutions

Metropolitan Police Service; Kilburn CP; On-site; GBP 68,000 - 73,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 28 days + bank holidays (

Civil service pension

Season ticket loans

Met sports & social clubs

Flexible working

Job summary

Metropolitan Police Service in Kilburn is seeking a Technical Architect to lead the design and governance of technical solutions across the Business Solutions portfolio. The role will translate architectural visions into scalable, secure, and maintainable architectures, focusing on Oracle Cloud technologies, integrations, and enterprise platforms.

You will provide deep technical expertise, mentor delivery teams, and support the transformation agenda.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Technical Architecture or equivalent senior technical role.
• Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC).
• Experience designing API-based integrations and enterprise middleware.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end technical architectures for Oracle Fusion and Business Services platforms.
• Provide assurance on third-party integration designs to MET standards.
• Produce and maintain technical architecture artefacts, standards and design documentation.
• Ensure non-functional requirements: security, scalability, resilience and performance.
• Lead technical governance and oversight across project lifecycles.

Skills

Technical Architecture

ERP integrations

Cloud architecture

Stakeholder management

Agile/DevOps

Tools

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC)

Oracle Fusion ERP/HCM

Job description

Technical Architect - Business Solutions

Vacancy Reference Number: 23095

Number of Vacancies: 1

(B) OCU

Culture Diversity & Inclusion

Location: Kilburn

Building: KILBURN POLICE STATION

Band: Band L

Part/Full Time: Full Time

Hours per Week: 36 hours per week

Type of Contract: Permanent

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

This role does not attract Shift Disturbance Allowance. If you are currently in a shift-working role, SDA should cease upon appointment to this job.

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

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.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) 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.

Integration Architecture & OIC

• 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.

Continuous Improvement & Innovation

• Identify opportunities to simplify architecture and reduce technical debt.
• Promote automation and platform optimisation through cloud technologies.
• Support innovation initiatives and proof-of-concept activities.
• Drive technical excellence and continual service improvement across Business Solutions.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• 5+ years' experience in Technical Architecture or equivalent senior technical roles and at least 8+ years' experience working with ERPs and Corporate Applications.
• Significant experience in Technical Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture, Integration Architecture or comparable senior technical roles.
• Experience designing and implementing solutions within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
• Strong hands‑on experience with Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC).
• Experience supporting Oracle Fusion ERP, HCM and associated cloud technologies.
• Strong understanding of cloud‑native architectures and SaaS platform integration.
• Experience designing API‑based integrations and enterprise middleware solutions.
• Knowledge of identity management, security architecture and cloud security principles.
• Experience working with integration technologies, web services, REST APIs and event-driven architectures.
• Strong understanding of networking, infrastructure and cloud platform services.
• Experience delivering enterprise‑scale transformation programmes and technology implementations.
• Ability to create architecture documentation, technical standards and solution designs.
• Experience working with Agile, DevOps and modern software delivery practices.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving capabilities.

Benefits:

• Annual leave entitlement of 28 days plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 5 years of service
• Civil service pension arrangements
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Membership of Met sports and social clubs
• Flexible working conditions and many more.

Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

Essential For The Role

Required Languages

English

Additional Information

Disability Confident Statement

The Met is committed to being an equitable (fair and impartial) and inclusive employer for disabled people, striving to have a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and long-term conditions, ethnic minority groups and women.

As a Disability Confident Leader, the Met has committed to making disability equality part of our everyday practice. We ensure that people with disabilities and those with long term conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.

The Met is committed to making reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process to ensure disabled applicants can perform at their best. If you need any reasonable adjustments or changes to the application and recruitment process, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence.

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