Technology Architect — Cloud & Enterprise Platforms

VIVO Defence Services; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

VIVO Defence Services, a joint venture delivering essential infrastructure and facilities management for the UK Defence estate, seeks a Technology Architect to shape the technology landscape. You will define architecture principles and roadmaps across applications, cloud, data, and security, ensuring secure, resilient and cost-effective solutions for internal and external stakeholders.

You will collaborate with business and technical teams and external providers to drive architecture decisions,

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in technology or solution architecture.
• Ability to develop architecture principles, roadmaps and governance.
• Experience reviewing designs from external providers.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain technology principles, standards and reference architectures with a aligned road map.
• Assess existing systems, integrations and technical debt to simplify the technology estate.
• Shape, assure and evaluate solution designs against requirements, security and cost.
• Guide evolution and integration of enterprise platforms, promote reusable integration patterns and APIs.

Skills

Azure cloud

Enterprise integration

IBM Maximo

Dynamics 365

SAP environments

APIs & security

Data architecture

Architecture governance

Education

Degree or architecture qualification

Tools

Azure

Job description

VIVO Defence Services, a joint venture delivering essential infrastructure and facilities management for the UK Defence estate, seeks a Technology Architect to shape the technology landscape. You will define architecture principles and roadmaps across applications, cloud, data, and security, ensuring secure, resilient and cost-effective solutions for internal and external stakeholders.

You will collaborate with business and technical teams and external providers to drive architecture decisions,