Lead Technical Architect - Integration and System Delivery

Lead Technical Architect - Integration and System Delivery

• Hybrid - 1-2 days per week onsite in London
• £100,000 - £110,000 per annum + Benefits and Bonus
• Must have or be eligible for UK Security Clearance and NPPV3

Digital Skills are looking for an experienced and highly skilled Lead Technical Architect with a focus on system assurance and integration architecture. This role is to join a client on a large public sector program of work and will play a pivotal role in overseeing the delivery of solutions for large-scale mission-critical systems.

You will need to have demonstrable expert-level architecture, whilst being technically agnostic. This role is to provide technical leadership, including the overseeing of application and integration architectures, provided by 3rd party suppliers. You will define and communicate architecture requirements, provide client-facing strategic and technical direction, and perform strong and detailed assurance of supplier solution deliveries.

Key Role Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to client technical teams, guiding them through complex technical challenges and architectural decisions.
• Understand business customer demands and requirements, ensuring alignment with system supplier deliveries.
• Evaluate and provide technical assurance for supplier solutions.
• Contribute to technical design authorities by communicating ideas and seeking consensus.
• Perform a Systems Integration role, ensuring supplier solutions and deliveries align.
• Ensure solution compliance with security and governance and regulatory standards and frameworks.
• Work with client and supplier quality and test organisations to ensure adequate quality in the delivery of complex solutions.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks in supplier solutions and deliveries to meet stakeholder objectives.
• Develop and maintain architectural standards, design patterns, and documentation, ensuring a shared understanding of technical solutions.
• Capturing/documenting architectural decisions.

Must have Qualifications and Experience required:

• Experience in technical leadership, including defining architectures and being responsible for the technical success of large-scale mission-critical systems.
• Expert-level experience in application and integration architectures.
• Extensive experience in systems integration and working with large IT Services organisations.
• Proven experience in client-facing technical leadership roles.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with clients and supplier teams and provide technical mentorship.
• An excellent communicator
• Ability to work in a Multi-supplier environment.

Preferred Skills & experience:

• Experience with large-scale distributed processing systems.
• Experience in architecting and delivering biometric processing systems (fingerprint, face, DNA).
• Experience in other architectural disciplines ie, business, data, performance, infrastructure, and security.
• Delivery of government secure solutions.
• Experience of solution service integration.
• Experience with test approaches for large-scale system deliveries.
• Expertise in compliance standards such as GDPR, HIPAA, SOC2, and ISO 27001.

Benefits to the role:

• Private pension, healthcare, good holiday allowance, training allowance, lifestyle benefits.
• An important and visible technical leadership role with the opportunity to work on national and international-scale solutions.
• A unique opportunity to work in the rapidly growing area of biometric systems.
• An opportunity to be a key part of a deeply experienced and expert team of architects and technology delivery experts, working within a dynamic and fast-growing business.

If this sounds like the right role for you and you have the skills and experience required, please do apply.